Hilgard, Theodore Charles 

 I8*f6 f May 12th 

 Bellev/ille, III. 



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Belle ville f 12 May l8k6. 



Bear Doctor, 



I have to bother you again with some questions regarding the plants which I 

 undertook to dry. ^ugen and I made a botanical excursion last Sunday to the bluffs 

 and a little bit to the bottoms. At that tirae we also looked for maple and found that 

 the fruit s were already rather large, approximately as large as the figure 

 Should the fruit specimens be taken when the fnuits are 

 ripe or some time before?. Furthermore, I don't know 

 at which tirae they are ripe. — We also looked for Aristolochia, 

 bat did not find any. Should there be some to be found near > 

 Falling Spring? We intend to go there sometime and could then 

 also use the opportunity to collect Aristolochia« As I heard, there 

 are also raany cedars supposed to grow near Falling Spring; at what time 

 should the fruit specimens be taken? — I can hardly take the roots of Fraseria in 

 their entire length, but shall have to cut them as much as necessary. I don't have 

 to buy paper for drying, but for keeping the dried specimens. 



On the bluffs we found a plant which I could not find in Beck. It may be closely 

 related to Batschia, 3/V high, leaves 1 1/2" long, slender lanceolate, stiff, dark 

 green, rough/ because of fcliff hairs. Five long slender calyx leaves, the high fruit 

 a little more than 1" long, the five plate-shaped spread-out lobes wavy at the edge. 

 Pollen sac alraost without filaments sitting at the tube. .... 

 Inflorescence a scorpion tail. Weals in the throat of the tube. See fig. 



At the bottoms I also found a plant which is very similar to 

 Echinospermum. However, the flowers are much large, 2 1/2" long, 

 sulphur yellow. — 



Sincerely yours, 

 Th. C. Hilgard. 





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