there Your synopsis of the Cacti is is a stimulus to collect 
the californian species.for you.. One cannot get anythine from 
the Californian Penrinsula (Baya California ,„ E.D.) From some 
very frasmentary notes one may conclude that the Flora there 
contains many endemic species. Some species correspond to ge- 
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nuine mediterranean forms e.g. a Rhua with a simple leaf Almost 
1lke Rh., Cotinus a plant similar to Neurada, a Phyllanthar 
with the habitat of a Buxus, a Cressa and many others. The 
most stunninz for me was the Isomeris,.. 
At this time I cannot send vou any more, but shall! share 
with you the „ooeeeeeereee. which were sent to me..In return I 
would like to get your local butterflies, well packed and in 
good specimens, (American families seem to be always incomplete) 
it you will accept this proposal, I shall mail with my first 
shipment a small instruction, how, according to my experience, 
such shipments are best accomplished.. 
For now a small catalogue of identical species, or, to 
express myself more clearly,species which are common to both 
the East and West of our continent ,„ and thus are of no interest 
for a shipment. 
Danais Archippus Vanessa Antiopa 
Vanessa card Pjieris oleracea 
R Houteri " protodice 
" Atalanta Colias chrysotheme 
Up to now I have had incom_ plete possibillity to compare 
the niesht- butterflies of both seashores.. The showy' forms of 
Sphinxes and Saturniae seem fairly different. I am however cCer- 
tain that in Chi large group many species have been shipwrecked 
all the way to us, and this fact would be a contribution to the 
geographic distribution, important enough to compensate, that 
instead of a new species one gets a new habitat, 
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