Sc zs. */*2 Aa>^< W 4ä /fr»!, & /Ü^h^c/^ ^jLy -ä-^W /te*?#* y*ys£^r , J&c? ^ ^cJ^ 7 ^yi^y**yi*? ^/ y^ hhS Arrt^ (fJ^rtx. ' /^^u^ . <7 VSIU ^^^^^ t ä^^ayj J^w^ \ ^r^l ^*&te /fy^^sr c. JU flu» <<~ '/rrr ^~eM u*y; « fa£ft r cr&_ A^/ PAcYj-&^ Uji y/ ArTCt^ ^ 6 7 8 9 10 Copyright reserved Vw?. $U f *h , fajHua^ fat^ . y^S*d/v / ß/^^ut^^ WfSSOURF BOTANJCAL GARDEN George Engelmann Papers Ried, March 28, lS?7 Dear SirJ The plant s which you sent, for which I herewith express my most sincere thanks, arrived here safely in good condition, and gave us great pleasure. These plants have given us an insight into the luxuriance and beauty of the flora in your new horae across the ocean. The wishes which you expressed in your letter, we will try to fulfill at the first opportunity. Oenothera is easy to obtain here; we are poor here on oaks, i.e. varieties of oaks, however we will send whatever is obtainable. Altogether, the flora in the near vicinity of Ried is very poor, Cypripedium . . lecolos occurs quite lux- uriantly, and several specimens will follow for America. A beautiful plant here also is soldanella montana. Then Ranunculus aconitlfolius . Something can therefor be written down as replacement for the kindly sent collect ion. In my vacation I am thinking of going to my home in Wildshut (in the upper area of Salzburg). The environ- ment of Wildshut has a very beautiful and rieh flora. Partly alpine pl-*nts in the raeadows of the Salzach. Partly marsh plants, because there are many peatmoors there. Drosera varieties might interest you. For our part we have no special wishes because we are not familiär with the flora there. Only you can reach into the füll life. On the other hand we also desire European plants which occur there, in order to make comparisons. Varieties of Primula e.g. would be very interesting; here there is only Primula elatior ; but also officinalis and farinosa is easy to obtain. If you would procure for us the book mentioned by you, Asa Gray's "Manual of the Botany etc.", we would be very thankful. As far as English is concerned, I have very good command of it, and am a great lover of it. Of course I read mostly fictional matters, but it should not be so difficult for me to become familiär with the scientific terminology. Prof. Palm, from whom I should send best regards, is very busy, because he is district school-inspector; at the educational establishment only a few hours of lectures, and is mostly out of town. From Dr. Scheibenzuber I reeeived a letter recently. He seems to feel very much at home now in Dayton. Some time ago we reeeived from hin) a small coll- ection of American butterflies, among them several very beautiful ones. Unfortunately they are not identified and Palm cannot work out the identification, because of a lack of help. Some of them are deceivingly sirailar to European ones. You inform me that we Copyright reserved - 2 - perhaps know each other from Vienna. Your narae seems quite familiär to me, but further remembrances are missing to me. But if you help me, perhaps we can find out, if I will give you some information about rayseif and from that period of time. In the autumn of 1855 I came from Venice to Vienna, there studied philology under Bonitz until autumn of 1858; then I came to Cilli. Perhaps also the names of several colleagues and acquaintances, which at the moment come to mind, will refresh the memory: Birlinger, Wretschtro, Woe/?erbauer, Vielhaber, Plants, Ipavic, Noe, Singer, Greisdorfer, Haneis. It would please me very much to be able to greet you as an old acquaintance from the time when I was a Student» In closing I again thank you for the plants which you sent and remain, with the request that you will again sometime send me information, with friendliest greetings Your devoted Konrad Pasch 01 23456789 10 Missouri botan ical cm Copyright reserved Garden