Deines heim May 7, 184? 



Dr. G. Engelmann in St, Louis ! 



Your letter of Nov. 2 of last year and the>seeds I well re- 

 ceived' on Mers 3*?or which I thank you kindlyy as well as the enclosed 

 leaflet v f or the procurement of which I thank heartily to our common 

 friend Theodor Engelmanm 



I send you^through Mr. Dosenbuctt from here, who is emigra - 



ting to N. America to establish a wine business f and whom I recommend 

 /highly 



I as a reliable man, ,a small packet of Grammica flaveolens C. H. Schultz, , 

 Mp. .(^ = Capeato flaveolens Sernige) i which I observed in October and 

 November of last year in mass^ near Diedorf en and collected them, and: 1 

 about which I gave a lecture on Nov. 15 of last year to the Natural! 

 Science Organization in Mannheim. 



The achenes (??? E.D. ) with head-shaped scar have been de - 

 signated as a separate species by the authors, namely as i: 



1) ) Engelmannia Pfeiffer & Berliner, , bot, newapaper 1848, pag 6?3 



E. migrans Pf. . 



2) Bachinger annal Science nat..l846 Fevr (French for February, E.D,.) 



p. 83 - 89 Pfeiffer Bachinger 



3) My Brother Fr. Wilh; . Schultz in Herberger & Winler Year-book for 



practical pharmacy and related d areas, Fol. MßT 9 section III (( 

 186? March) pg.169 - 171.. as Bachingera suaveolens p. 170 



M K . M y brother has recently combined alli Cafeatae into one 



genus..! LoTireicoofl.cochinch^. founded this genus first. . Type: Grammica 

 grow 



aphyllä Loureico. .Thus I pxstR NET (Tel d Casenta aphylla Ref T 

 V follow 19 lines of names, some lined out,,see original) 

 The, all named by you as .Gramenica C&yl i . Cephalanthi . valgl vaga . , Sau- 

 jrurl, penlagona . verrucosa, , blspidala.neuropetala,, Polygonoraea e tc.. 

 You may now decide about the matter. I shall make my observations 

 known right away in the Berlin Bot. News.. The Gramminica flaveolens 

 occurs with us in good years, e.g. . 1822 & 1836 according to the far- 

 mers.Could it be mistaken for the Casenta trifol ei Bab. which I have 

 not yet observedi I will continue collecting Caseatae for you and to 

 observe,, 



