[Brongnianrt] 
TransL£ note:Brongniant(1801-1876 
Developed a unigue 
system Lf£or classi- 
fication L&ased on 
lemale fLlowers, 
Paris, March 6, 1860 
Rec”d June 14h Postmark llay 27 
S£A/y 
TI have just neceived the interesting papers that you have heen 
kind enough to send me and I hunnay to express Lo you my gratitude 
for these important pullications and for the souvenir you sent 
me as a memory of our time together in Paris, 
We had no idea of the extreme vanialkility of the cacti of the 
nonthers part of fexico about which one possessed 50 Little 
information until Last year, Funthenmone, this family has not 
een well studied except in cultivated plants in the gandens 
and until now #specimens of these cacti have been missing in 
general in our European ganrdens, I£ you happen Lo get good seeds 
from any of your species we would Like to have some 450 that 
we can introduce them in our gardens, 
Your monograph over Cusanta helps also vey much in ourknow£ledge 
of this difficult species and puts in onder the now #50 numerous 
species which ane 50 difficult to distinguish within Lh£s group, 
But your description of new genera of Gnaminae has particularly 
interested me Because of the unusual organization of this dicigque 
species, I have noticed you Buchloe in our henkanium under the 
genera Seslenia and Anthephona, I take it that you found the 
male variant in Lindheimenrn’s unnamed collection £ut I felieve 
that you also do not Lack the female plant, TI would have Liked 
to examine the nipe seeds from loth sexes and I would ke most 
grateful if you have opportunity to provide us with a sample, 
There is also in your species fMonantochloe some very remarkakle 
features especially in the female flower, 
Please accept ,; dean Sir, my most sincene negands etc 
A, Brongnianrt 
Trans£L, 10/9/94 
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