-5- 



standing out. Center thorn 1 l/2 !f long, 5-8 rad the lower three 



longer, gray color, the color of the cactus is a dull blue-green, füll smooth 



Areola 7/8" , f lower at the tip is a bud similar to Setispinus , 



color as above, seed not set on. I still expect various ones in f lower like 

 Echino , Wisticenii , Longihamatus, Cereus Gregii , of which I have old specimens 



but have never obtained a f lower, Straminea , Dasyacanthus , Mama , 



maromeris and others. The Anholoniam does not bloom until August, I have never 



seen any fruit on it, if one should set on, you may be sure that I will send 



it to you. On the whole this kind grows very slowly, I have some since 3 



years and there is not much of any growing to be observed. I have some individual 



cacti of which I have not yet learned the names, may I please send them to you 



and trouble you with them? With some and the very large ones this is not 



possible and description must suffice. 



If I understand correctly, you received through friend Lindheimer from 

 Meusebach, who moreover lives on the upper Llano, only the f lower of the Aloe, 

 is it a new species? This Spring I received several bulbs of a very beautiful 

 white blooming Camassia , are you familiär with it? It came from upper Quihi, 

 about 50 miles west of here. I no longer have any Apuntia Davissii and you 

 would do me a big favor if you could send me one. That this plant has 

 potato-like bulbs is probably new to you, at any rate I find no mention of 

 it in the description in the Railroad Report of I am very grate ful 



to you for sending the grape leaves with the galls of the Phylloxera. My 

 leaves were from this neighborhood here and the gall is decidedly different. 

 I immediately wrote to Dallas to Prof. Jac. Boll, who last year informed me 



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