I have sent you some drawings Analyses of flowers of {Asclepias}
from Texas — but whether a full description, I dont know
— also full descriptions of some of our my new species
from here? Echinodorus — 2 Cyperi etc — Cuscutae —
I am sorry to give you that trouble. If you don't have
all those things, I will write them again, as I have
the manuscript still here — and some of the plants
descriptions are also imperfect, especially some
Cacti, to which I have to add or alter. —
On second consideration I thini t better to
write every think over again.
I have also that Malva (near rotundifolia)
of Fendlers in cultivation — it must be Malva
borealis Fries but I can not compare specimens
— we have here only {Malva} rotundifolia L with large
flowers — this one from Santa Fe has very small
corollas — in my cultivated plant the calyx is
not so large as in the wild one — it is a poor
specimen. ——How should {Malva} borealis come there?
Fendler's (the third) Bolivaria is in flower
with me — specimens that have yet the seminal
leaves on them! — bot texan species I have
also in cultivation but they have no flowers
yet; — Lindheimers large one must be named longiflora
being so different in that respect from the others. —
Can you distinguish two species among Fendlers
numerous specimens of Malva coccinea? It
appeared to me as if there was a difference in the
fruit and also in the stigmata —
I close the letter today 27th in a hurry though I have
several thing, to add — shall probably write soon
again. — So Nees has united our Dipteracanthus
with Strepens! — He maybe right!
Very truly yours
G Engelmann
I have sent you some drawings Analyses of flowers of {Asclepias}
from Texas — but whether a full description, I dont know
— also full descriptions of some of our my new species
from here? Echinodorus — 2 Cyperi etc — Cuscutae —
I am sorry to give you that trouble. If you don't have
all those things, I will write them again, as I have
the manuscript still here — and some of the plants
descriptions are also imperfect, especially some
Cacti, to which I have to add or alter. —
On second consideration I thini t better to
write every think over again.
I have also that Malva (near rotundifolia)
of Fendlers in cultivation — it must be Malva
borealis Fries but I can not compare specimens
— we have here only {Malva} rotundifolia L with large
flowers — this one from Santa Fe has very small
corollas — in my cultivated plant the calyx is
not so large as in the wild one — it is a poor
specimen. ——How should {Malva} borealis come there?
Fendler's (the third) Bolivaria is in flower
with me — specimens that have yet the seminal
leaves on them! — bot texan species I have
also in cultivation but they have no flowers
yet; — Lindheimers large one must be named longiflora
being so different in that respect from the others. —
Can you distinguish two species among Fendlers
numerous specimens of Malva coccinea? It
appeared to me as if there was a difference in the
fruit and also in the stigmata —
I close the letter today 27th in a hurry though I have
several thing, to add — shall probably write soon
again. — So Nees has united our Dipteracanthus
with Strepens! — He maybe right!
Very truly yours
G Engelmann
EN