Hilgard, Theodore Charles 

 lcVf6 f September 13th 

 Belleville, III. 



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B. , 13th September l8k6. 



Dear Doctor, 



Some remarks in your last letter made me doubt that I really have an Asel. 

 glaberrina . In order to clear this matter up, I am sending you my only speeimen. 

 I only found two in flower (many others were eaten up by cattle) and from these 

 I only took one speeimen. By the way, you may keep this speeimen for yourself 

 since you probably can make more use of it than we can. — With regard to the 

 fruit speeimens, Eugen found two, each with *f-5 fruit s, so that there will be 

 only two speeimens. But inspite of all that has been said on this smbject, I 

 still have to ask whether the fruit s should be colleceed ripe or near their 

 ripening time when the plants still have leaves? 



We inteded to collect floday Chenopodium anthelminticum . But in your letter 

 you say:"A flower speeimen and a brauch with flowersj" Now we don't know whether 

 the flower speeimens should be ^ntire plants or only branches? The pieces are 

 usually 1 1/2 to 2* high. There also are some smaller ones in bad shape, nibbled 

 on. These pieces are almost as wide as they are Mgh, so that we would not know 

 how bring them into a forraat of 10 x 16 1/2 without having them lose their shape. 

 In other respects I shall do what youw sih. Please send an answer through father. 



I.) Recently I found a plant which I thought to be a Sarracenia. It is 

 approximately 6" high, entirely white , stem, leaves, flower, anther filaments, 



fruit short, just as made from the sarae material as the flower leaves of the 



white lily. The leaves are closily attached, there are more on the top and almost 

 envelop the flower. Flower petals 5» calix leaves sometimes non-existant , sometimes 1, 

 sometimes 3» but they are not as stiff as the flower leaves. I am not quite sure 

 whether real calyx leaves are existing. Anther filaments 10, capsule 5~2&b&j3 r stigma 

 smooth, 5- cornere d» Small seeds... 



II. Recently 5 1 found a Bidens with leaves growing together with parsley. 



III. I don f t know yet any Folygonatum species, never even heard of ifcftKoa 'the 

 name; two of them I sent you with Siegmann, but did not distinguish as many 

 species as I do now so that I cannot teil what they were from my incomplete list. 

 a) Leaves heart-shaped, three of the flower leaves very large ... 





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