Approximately of this shape rjg^J^ , at the bottom of the stem somewhat dentate. There are 



k sepals, divided, irag^csksjnKi lanceolate, 9 fleshy, not deciduous, longer than the flower 



which is Short, tube-shaped, mostly with k 'or <Sften with 5 lobes, white, with 2 small,bent 



anther fllaments at the base, very deciduous. The fruit has two oompartments,sometimes 3» 

 pushed together from the side, heart-shaped (7^ % almost as in Th i aspi Bursa-pa-toris . ?he 

 flowers Single in the leave axils, almost Tdthouth stem. In the inflorescences, the leaves 

 are smooth-edged, and alternating . Flowers, there fore, in end Clusters with large supporting 

 leaves. 



Furthermore, a little weed which must be related to Silene or Arenaria. Stem round, 

 soft, a little glabrous because of the hairs, also with lanceolate ^ ^ t opposite 



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standing leaves. Flowers Single in the leave axils from which also alwäyir ä little branch 



is Coming out. After the flowering, the flower stem becomes more than one inch long, straight 



Calyx of 5 divided pointed leaves, half as long as the flower, flower leaf 5, slender, at the 

 top with a deep cleft, white. Anther filaments 10, stigmas 5, somewhat curly. Capsule cylindri- 

 cal, scaly, high, clefted at the top with ten teeth. — I see that one has to begin with the 

 description of the flowerj 



Recently I found in the vicinity in the woods the orchid which you brought with you from 

 the bottoms, with striped, meager leaves. I cannot remember the name you mentioned at that 

 tirne.-- This time, two plants were hanging together from a very bulby root stem. When Eugen 

 saw this, he said we should call it in the future Hildegardis cnollis . 



Düring a botanical walk, I also found an umbelliferous piant; its root, if cut through, 

 smells like anise ... It only had root leaves; I don't know it, therefore am asking you for 

 the name.- 



Last winter one could see that all laurel oaks in the vicinity had thick bulby outgrowths 

 on the branches, or rather swellings. These are now rather soft and brittle and opened up, 

 bored through, from the inside from many slender spindle-shaped pointed white, at the lower 

 point hollow outgroivths, in which holes the larvae of, if I am not mistaken, ichneumon fly 

 are lying. The bulbs itself look as if covered with points. — I shall tie up some of these 

 swellings so that I won't miss the insects which mfcght come out.- 



I stillhave to ask you something about the paper which I use for drying plants. A great 

 part of it is namely newspaper, unprinted, from the former Illinois Observer. I chose this 

 because it was especially soft. Now, Dr. Reuss teils me that the softness is probably caused 



and then in a pointed curve downward 



