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and above 2" diaraete*r. Th e inner 3 tube*ÄfWte a^e white in the 



raiddle# strongly ribbed, and at the rin strongly woolly to 3/V» wide. 



The outer 3 rows a^ e at the tip pale granate-colored: This is a ques- 



tion posed by ne. The color of the seraiprecious stone.i.e. dark 



black-red at the tip and blending into light green, ffcprther down 



washed out, with even stronger almost swollen ribbing. The leaf-like, 



almost spiralpoints of the scales on the tube are a darker green 



I protrudeff 

 with Granat nointsand below them pÄXksÄ from left and right a lon/?„ 



contorted, alnost hairy, wooV of white and transparent rose-carrairr.. 



^h e pistll far elongated, in 15 parts r very light yellow; more than 



100 anthers, in part orange, in parta golden- yellow pollen tuft n e a- 



ching to the narti tion of the 



(th e f oll owi ng is all written on the margin of the letter pages) 



Several iteras come additionally to mv mind, which I must teil 

 you. You remember, that I wrote you this spring, that I had recelveä 

 from Labouret/several JEchinocact i , E. gibbosus Thowensis. »which were 

 supposed to be collected below the ^3rd° latitude. You then doubted 

 this statenent. But it is nevertheless correct 



,Vjoej3ause the i sother-. 

 mlc of a higher longitude come mich closer to the pole in 



the Southern hemisphere than in the northerm The particular plant s 



came from an Island group of the mouth of the Rio Negro*of which the 



lar~efc ö r, Island has the nane It snows and freezes there,, 



which however according to your own experience does not exclude the 



occurence o^ cacti. The island group mentioned contains extensive *e- 



posits of guano and the brother of the commercial gardener Geis irr 



Paris collected the shipment, and brought it with a shipment of guano 



to his brother in Europe. In the province of Valdivia in Chile there 



are several cacti below ^2° latitude. and the Cereus chilensis mar t>(L 



<&i home on the island of the same nane, below 42°- lat.. The 



the bumpy forms of Echinocactus a^d Cereus seem to belong to these,- 



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