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to 1 5/8" long, also the flower was somewhat larger. Niridiflora and some 

 other ones have bloomed. Setispinus is now blooming for the setond, partly 

 third time, because it produces flowers after each strong rain. Of this 

 cactus I have quite a few, because it is plentiful in this neighborhood, 

 but often I am in doubt if they are not various kinds, perhaps sinnatus? 

 My largest specimens are 10-11" high and 5-6" thick, but only at the very 

 bottom do they have younger growth, whereas other smaller ones are covered 

 with more round growths, small outgrowths and, whereas all larger specimens 

 produce their flowers only at the top* the smaller outgrowths of the latter 

 are all around, so that recently on one of the outgrowths of 1 l/k n diameter 

 8 of them bloomed at the same timet I have also compared the thorns and 

 found only that in each individual specimen there exists a great Variation, 

 I found the number of ribs to be between 13-i6, likewise in some to be running 

 directly straight down, whereas in others strongly wound, the latter namely 

 in the high ones without outgrowths, I will gather seeds from the various 

 ones and send you some of them, because there definitely should exist a 

 difference betwaen them. 



I have observed Apuntia foutescens very carefully and can definitely state 

 that it blooms only one day. It opens, the weather may be as it will, in 

 cloudy weather later, never before 9 sometimes only at 12 o'clock, and always 

 closes by 6 o'clock, sometimes even earlier. 



I have received a cactus from the neighborhood of Fort Davis, the name 

 of which I have not yet learned, which has a beautiful chocolate-brown, velvefc- 

 like color, like I have never before seen on a cactus. It is an Echino and 

 still young, the form is globe-like, turned in at the top, but may appear 

 more cylindrical in older plants, 2 1/V high 2 1/2" thick, 12 ribs flatly 





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