
          Recd [Received] Oct. 23rd 1860
through the
Smithsonian
Institution
Ansd [Answered] Nov. 16th

[letterhead of]
Die Pollichia
ein naturwissenschaftlicher Verein der Rheinpflaz
zu
Dürkheim a/H

Deidesheim den 5 zum Mai 1860

[Cl.] professor Dr. J. Torrey!
U.S. Assay Office 30 Wall Street New-York.

En, vir celebratione, medinate, institutione
Smithsoniana, cum ultimis [ranalibus?] Pollichiae
nostrae pro [te?] & cl. Geubel, fasciculus plantarum
ultra 500 continens species.

Nostra filiae meae 19 annorcum (cf. com̃ent. [Commentationes] 
bot. [botanicae] p. 21, n. 14)  defolatus, [baiaeque?] gratias
nondam pro fasciculo [duo?] [in?] Oct. 1857 medinate
cl. A. Gray & Delessert accepto egi. species
plurinum nondam visae & [?] criticae
[beaiquitate?] [tun?] in herbarium meam [ui?] graverant.
Pentachaeta aurea [?] = P. Bigelowii [Pentachaeta bigelowii] [?] [Bip.?] nov. sp.
Actinella linearifolia = A. odorata [Actinella odorata] Gray
mea ex sententia.
        