Ree. F eb. 22 

 Ans. March 28 



Jacobi 



ETologne Feb. 21,1857 



Most honored Sir Doctor ! 



Your esteened c orr e spondenc e of the 13th of last month interested 



me much, and though I an not able to support your' scientific in- 



quiries with nv owre, as I miss the necessary botanical ' pre-educatiorr 



a^d do not have a suf f iciently prooä baokground 1 1 want to oontribute 



at least to the *rood cause by getting as raany seeds to you 1 as I can 



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procure. I , theref or, wrote immediately to ny friend Schaefer in Mun- 

 ster a>nd reeeived fron hin right away the e^olosed seed s 9 which I 

 send you he re with. . It Is most ap-reeable to ne , that I an able to send 

 you these seeds at least in pa"^t In entire fruit sw. 



I also went these days to Dach.but found no seeds at all" on 

 his plant s a^d the fruits on the Perescia Blio (? E.D.) wont be ripe 

 for a long tine. In the Coming Summer, whieh, aecording to news co- 

 ming to ne, I nost likely will not spend in Colo^ne, I will collect 

 quite industriously fron ny plants and to peet to you always very well 1 

 conserved fruits... 



As to your Observation^ they surprised ne in part very nuohr.. 

 That you. found such a conplete difference between the fruits of 

 Meloc actus and rfanillarial an ve^v happy about.I really could never 

 und erstand nroperly, how these two pre^era should be so near to eacH 

 other. The inf lo^escense is a^ter all substantially different, and 

 the plants too r show im the pioture of the exterior habitus no near 



relationship. Did Mr. Fun s also inform you about the Observation made 

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by hin, that Melocactus throws its fruits after completed ripening^ 

 out of the tuft ?' 



Your suppositions about II. subcoglandulif era and raphidacantha 



are completely correct and the fruits . . JwvVTj. . . themselves in. the 

 State of connlete rineness' toward the nucro somewhat 



That M.Bocahrana is so r! if fe^e^t from the other crinlfers, sur - 



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