Hilgard, Theodore Charles 

 I8*f6 f July 5th 

 Belleville, III. 



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July 5bh, l#f6. 



Dear Doctor, 



After I wrote you the enclosed letter yesterday, I walked around to see 

 whether there were enough specimens of Frasera fruit s so that I might be able 

 to show the branching of the stems. I went to all places where Fräser is growing, 

 in a 1/2 raile circle at least. But I only found £ all in all. Therefore, If I 

 want to get enough fruit specimens, I shall have to take rather small parts. 

 Frasera, i. e. plant s which flower, are rather too rare around here to take 

 large parts than I took. Also, as I already mentioned, I saw to it that each 

 part had a supporting leave down at the top specimens. Today I Put in 120 root 

 specimens of Frasera and had to exploi^places to find them since it was high 

 time because the outer leaves were already pale and rotten. Inspite of shortening 

 the root, the specimens are again as long as the first time because this time 

 I had to take only heart-leaves (which were the only ones r still green);but now lbost 

 of the inner whorls have a much longer tube inspite of the same size as the rest 

 of the leaf. I, there fore made so 



that the specimen was bent a^t 

 the place where the plant comes out 

 of the ground; so that one can see 

 the habitus of the young plant 

 better than if I had left the lower 

 part straight, but bent the leaf 

 tops.— I looked up in Beck the 

 names of the plants you mentioned; 

 With regard to Lysium hyfrrida , 

 which by the wa.y is identical with your üescription, it sayH: n corol shorther than' 

 the calyx" while it is twice as long in my plant. The specimen I sent you happened 

 to have an especially bad flower. My good specimens were somewhere in the press. 

 The äxil£xi£$i§8 of the leaves of Leonurmi card. does not fit, for it says: "cauline 

 leaves lanceolate, 3 lobed, upper ones entire". But the pistil leaves are very 

 broad and the lower ones, apart from the lobes, almost as round as a circle.— If it 

 wouldn't cause you too much trouble I should like to send you a »spy herbarium' in 

 order to learn the names of the plants; and I shall be careful to send only clearly 

 recognizable specimens. —Is the enclosed plant an Arecare? Our cacalia does not have 

 an especially thick root, however I shall not doubt that it is Cac. tuberosa. 



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