Engelmann, George Mar. 23, 1857 [1] (seq. 3)

Berlin March 23d 1857

My dear Doctor

I had thought myself
entirely forgotten by my American friends,
for not only you but every body else
kept an obstinate silence — when
your agreeable letter of Febr 19th arrived
about a week ago. So you have
recovered my letters from New York and
from shipboard, but it seems have
not got one dated Paris Dec 12. Under
that date I wrote to you, Torrey and
Emory; the latter has got his and answered
it — how it is that the others have not
arrived, I do not know. I wrote to you
about our friends in Paris and about my
hasty examinations of the Herbaria; about
Michaux {Sparganium} angustifolium, — which certainly
resembles very much the White Mtn plant
than his Sagitt. graminifolius {Sagittaria} gramininifolia} from Canada,
which is certainly nothing but the {Sagittaria}
simplex Pursh. What is to be done with the
synonomy? Michaux name is bad for
many forms and may stand for one
variety, something like {Sagittaria} acutifolia. It is
possible that some of the old Humboldt in
Euphorbias are the same as ours;
{Euphorbia} [?] for example is perhaps
serpillifolia etc.; but I have those now
in hand and shall soon be able to
say more about them. I also wrote to
you about {Auguste} Trécul. In Paris I was told that
he had left for America in a state of great
poverty, expecting to make a living as druggist

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already he suffers much from sleeplessness,
thirst etc.

By the way, Braun & {Heinrich} Poselger never got their
"Cactaceae" — B. got a small package from America
for which the post office charged [ thaler?] 4 — and which
thereupon he refused. It probably did contain
the {cacti}. — I have seen a good deal about
Cactaceae, have been enabled to correct some
errors, and shall soon send you an appendix.
I believe I have already sent you diagnoses
of {Cereus} roetteri and Opuntia pes-corvi.

Give our love to the Agassiz family
and all those who remember us. I shall
write to A. as soon as I have seen Humboldt.
By the way I learned with pleasure that Mr. Carey's
family will be here soon. — I have seen
several Americans here, yesterday a Mr. Kimball
from Salem, a cousin of Rev. Russell, who sends
Brassica seeds to Caspari. —

Your 2d manual is much liked — but people
every where ask about finishing the Flora!!!
The first word after, whenever your name is
mentioned! — Does Putnam not send a number
of copies to Hamburg or Leipzig? —

I was greatly pleased to learn from Mrs. Gray's
letter to my wife that you have that young German
now in Cambridge — It will cost you and Sprague
some time to instruct him, break him in,
but I do not doubt you will be amply repaid.

My Cacti are done beautifully and cheaply
(150 fr. a plate) in Paris; others I have given to
an engraver here. —

{Georg} Mettenius desires seeds or plants of Ophioglossum,
Botrychium dissectum, Osmunda interrupta, Woodisa glabella, Aspidum nova —
Trichomanes, Schizaea. — The Leipzig {Garden} is beautiful in
ferns and will be glad to exchange, through {Felix} Flügel &

the Smithsonian. — Mrs. Engelmann's kind regards to Mrs. Gray and of course my own.
Farewell
I shall soon write again — yours ever G. Engelmann