Charles Bessey, Letters, 1891

MINDEN, NEBR. AUG. 27TH 1891.

PROF. CHAS. E. BESSEY

DEAR SIR:

I SEND YOU TO-DAY A PACKAGE CONTAINING FIMBRISTYLIS AND ARISTIDA AS YOU REQUESTED.

WILL SEND SOME MORE PLANTS FOR CLASSIFCATION AS SOON AS I HAVE TIME TO COLLECT THEM.

YOURS TRULY: H. Hapeman

MINDEN, NEBR. AUG. 29TH 1891.

PROF. CHAS. E. BESSEY

DEAR SIR:

TO-DAY I SEND YOU A SPECIMEN OF CUPHORBIA WHICH I WISH YOU WOULD CLASSIFY FOR ME AS I AM NOT ABLE TO PLACE THE SPECIES SATISFACTORILY TO MYSELF.

YOURS TRULY: H. Hapeman

MINDEN, NEBR. SEPT 1ST 1891.

PROF. CHAS. E. BESSEY

DEAR SIR;

SINCE YOU WROTE ME TO DO SO I HAVE EXAMINED A CONSIDERABLE NUMBER OF MARSILIA AND FIND AS YOU THOUGHT THAT THE PLANTS GROWING ON DRY GROUND ARE SOMEWHAT HAIRY.

SOMETIMES A SINGLE ROOTSTALK WILL BE CONTINUOUS FROM THE LARGE SMOOTH PLANT TO THE SMALL HAIRY ONE. THERE SEEMS TO BE ONLY THE ONE SPECIES GROWING IN THIS VICINITY.

YOURS TRULY H. Hapeman.

Minden, Nebr Sept. 1891

Prof. Chas. E. Bessey

Dear Sir

To-night I send you two plants for classification. They may be the same plant at different stages of development. They are a class of plant with which I am quite unfamiliar but they are quite abundant here and I am anxious to know the classification. You inquired some time since about Plantago patagonic variety [illegible] Yes. it grows so abundantly as to be a nuisance, in some pastures there.

Yours Truly; H. Hapeman.

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Minden, Nebr Sept. [1891]

Prof. Chas. E. Bessey

Dear Sir:

Enclosed is what I think is Displachne fascicularis and if so an addition.

Yours Truly Dr. H. Hapeman