Ree. Nov. 2k 9 1866 



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Postscript of Oct.29,lß66 / 



The preceding; part of my comraunication was ready to be mailed,. 

 when I reeeived ^ron Professor Braun your kind shlpment of seed of 

 E . Slmpson.ll/, and saw ^ron this,ftow kirtd yoia were to disre^ard my 

 s^lence to think of me. My sincerest and heartiest thanks for theru. 



We cultivate here for a number of years a^ EcMnocereus i ntro- 

 duced by a Mr. Draep-e fron Hamburg» who was for a fairly Tonn- tine 11- 

 vlng in Mexico, which was hamed erroneo^sly by Senwe E_«_ E hrenbergll» 

 The latter species, w^ich belon^s also to the Thelaideae i s a ßrood 

 species, which I also cultivate« The species of Draege is dl<Jtingu- 

 ished through lor<rish, terminally senispheric, upright Standing hunps 

 upon the ribs with very lon^r ( up to 3"), flexible, in this and that 

 way .ih diff ererbt directio>is twi sted , central spines, d i stin^ui shed frora 

 all other species of this division. Could it be iL . simpsonii ? of 

 the locality of its existe^ce I have no knowled^re. 



I made the decision now to e^close still several Echinocerei of 

 ny collection for shipme^t to vou, o^ which no mention. is made in your 

 opus and which carae f7, on Pazelger from America • Others I reeeived from 

 the Dyer. 



Enclosed are: 



1) Echcer. papillosus Linze related to E. Berlar d ieri , but a si*r- 

 nificantly tarier form, the flower in contrast is snaller. Here is 

 the description of my own: sepals lanoe-shaped, light- .... -red , dirty, , 



with darker nid die- strire s , the latter on the outside, red.Petals 



in two rows, lance-shape, rather pointed with short white points, in 

 their upper one-half 9 f 1 r broad, somewhat skalier toward the base, 

 blueish-vermouth, somewhat fleshy, the bud with 3 - 3§ 11 dm. Tube 1 H 

 long f J M dm, toward the basis strongly narrox^ed, covered spirally with 



bumpy areoles, which are protected by egg^ shaped or 



pointed scales. Scale s ^r 1 ^ -red, covered with spines. Sta- 



mens very nuraerous.arisin« from the base of the tube from the lowest 



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