Hilgard, Theodore Charles 

 I8*f6 f October 28th 

 Belleville, III. 



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Belleville, 28th October. 



Dear Doctor« 



I am sending you today with Siegmann's transport the plants I have 



collected up to now. I hope you won't have any complaints about the Lobelia 



inflata and the root specimens of Frasera , but I still have not got the 



bark specimens of Quere us tinetoria . Of Ghenopodium anth .only a few specimens 



are complete with flowers and fruits and leaves. The larger part has only 



either leaves, flowers or fruits. To be added to the latter, I still collected 

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some fruit specimens and intend to add them to the other« young leaves, but 

 the frost killed everything before I had the time. 



I believe, Eugen will get the bark specimens ready. I can't do it anymore 

 since I have to laave for Washington in about 1^- days to visit Julius and next 

 year to go to Gerrnany. I hope to come over myself end of this week with some 

 of my own plants and I shall also bring you the seeds and fruits of Asel , glaberrina 

 which we collected. We have planted 23 or 2k roots of this plant in a good 

 place in our field. The root is about 2" deep under the surface, it is about a 

 finger thick and is slanting downwards at an angle of 10-20°. 7 



In all specimens which still had leaves, I found that a*i 

 correspond**g with your description. Especially in my 

 former flower specimens fig.2 ^ They usually were shaped as in fig.2. 



I also gave Siegmann, the rW^£^5usent ne for drying plants as well as 

 the wires. I counted everything I reeeived two days after flie receipt and found 

 only 6 wires instead of 8. For the two missing ones I sent one of my neddles. 

 I myself always used such thick wires which were more easy to handle taan the 

 others,espially since I had to carry the paper such long distances, namely from 

 the second floor or the barn in the y^ard, where I hung up the paper for drying 

 for which purpose I put in some nails in the wooden fence. 



When I come over, I shall bring along the bills for my expenses since I 

 want to have all my financial matters in order before I go east. 



Day before yesterday, Wilhelm plowed up two mushrooms growing under the 

 soil. They were 2" long, approximately 1 1/2" wide, very irregulär white pustules 

 mostly filled with some kind of gelatinous matter. In the middle, a shortened 



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