Ree. Vlenna Dec. 29 Munster, Deceraber 1,1857? 



Esteened Priend I 



That my rather detailed letter, in which was enclosed the last 

 shipment of seeds, has bee>^ lost, makes ne very unh appy as I an now 

 fo^ced to recapitulate the long writing. However, I raust say with J aeob 

 Faith-^er: no help erying , better now next tine (this quotation in Eng- 

 lish, E.D.) 



I sent you in the little case a lot of seeds, irrepardless, if 

 you had reeeived them ea-rlie^ through ne or not, and I worked und er the 

 viewpoint 1 , to let you have a lot of seeds, which you could sow in Ane- 

 rika, and thus grow a lot of plants, which you raay not have cultivated : 

 there until now. In a tiny box are the remains of an unknown P erescia ,, 

 which I was able to collect f rora Hr. Koch • s shrub, which had fallen off 

 however prfcor to bei ng enclosed. I assume, that the fruits did not ri- 

 pen, because Koc^ kept the plants dry through the entire winter, where- 

 as the Pe-escias denar\d much noi sture also during Winter. As, höpe - 

 fully, the plants set seed arairr thanks to the favorable weather for the 

 Cactl last Summer, I shall write to Koch and admonish him f , not to let 

 anything be aniss for the growth. I, further, enclosed a dried flower 

 of Echin . aeifer , which will probably be also of interest to you.. 



A lar^re part of ny last letter was devoted to the descriptiorr of 

 the flower of _Cer. lanprochlorus , which' Pazzani had observed in this 

 Summer, and who wants to classify the plants therefor with the Echinops. 

 As you yourself will have been in Vienna and probably looked up Pazzani", 

 you can dispute this rarity yourself with hin. Fron his descriptiorr it ; 

 is not clear, if the stamina are linbo adnatae, which until now was con- 

 sidered a raairr characteri stier for the Echinopsae . The stanen of the 

 flower, qulte tight at the apex, points nore to Echinocereus . As toc 

 exterior appearanee, the plant Stands near- Eps . Bridgesll . which however,, 

 as far as I know, has not yet flowered with us 6 . 



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