Jacotoi 



2 



Nov. ?A, . 1P57 ; 



The retlna (German: Ne^haut = Net-skin f E.D» ) , which stretchea 

 between kernel and husk of the miscat nut« Thuis having become awares 

 , I exanined all ! ^anmla-ri a berries available to me nore carefully, 

 and found, that several of t heim carry snall ' protuberanoes, which are 

 neither hair nor scales^ a^d for which I do not have a descriptive 

 Resignation. Host distinct are they on the enclosed fruit o f M . 

 nagna manma arietina. Fürthen, I have these protuberances^ here and; 

 there also in connection with hair on the fruits of sevral speoies 

 which be lonp- to the M. amiilosae t . such as M . sempervi vi , na Gothel e >; 

 Webbia^a , , Welhia^a, lo^i spina, s almi ara , naprninanna , cencrioirra, and 

 Poersterl , and of the Phymatothoeli s with M.megacantha« 0^ all th e se 

 Speeles vou reeeive fruits-, and you may thus continue with your own 

 observations« . 



long-pointed 



Often sit these fleshy, ^ pr otu.be ra^c es on the unner 



part of the berry near the the corolla, soroetime they 



appear f Liethen down. 3> apnearance they look alnost like hair but 

 differ through their Thabell- color , whereas the real hair are al- 

 ways splendidly white. 



Beside the seed I enclose a dried flower of Echinocereus aeifer,, 

 which will surely interest you. In the little xveen box is an unripe 



dried fruit of the Perescia Palea, which has fallen off., 



The fruits of the plant did probably not contto developraent and ma- 

 turitv, because Kocfp kept the Dla^ts too dry-. . With the present so 

 very favo^ahle weather, the plant has certainly again set fruit, and 



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I will admonish Koch, not to ^sfc wate^ >>e Kissing for the -ripe^ing^ 

 process, and, the^, we will peet enough ripe "^ruit. 



My plants recelved here a better shelter, than I could provide 

 until ^ow. 



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