J^cobi 2 Oot. 9,1^55 



have frathe^ed nore.than I consider sowing, as soon as you will be kind 



enouflrh to provide ne with an oportunity to expedite this shipnent with- 



out ca 1 ! sing unreasonable expenses. Simultane ously I want to take the 



liberty to raail alonpc an index of my collectiorr of plant s«. 



You say in your letter, you had not seen any but black seeds of 



Echinocacti ' . I will also send you sone of E« pumilus and frracillinus , . 



which are in nart dank, in part licht The seeds of th e Stenogo - 



gonae are in part But, you will see for your seif and judge». 



I studied with special attention during the Summer the Position? of 



flowers and fruit of Hamillariae a^lacotbelae and glandullf erae , which" 



Proelprer (?) assi ns to the Echinocacti , and found thereby, ot believe 



to have found, that the flower arises fron the axil anyhow, even though 



it is situated at the apex of the plant, The furrows on the upper part 



of the teat (the German word for teat is Warze = wart, E.D. ) eloncates 



to the axil and at the end of it in the axil Stands the flower; but not 



as with the Echinocacti immediately behind the bündle of spines.That 



the two naned species <Jf Hammilariae present a transition to the Echi - 



nocacteae , there is hardly any doubt,but according to their entire struc- 



ture as weil as to their inf lore scense *ka:?rxtewlHK^xwtttesKtxÄi5TsifetxfeHxtte«X' 



and that the flower emern-es fron the younger axils, they belong with out 



doubt to the Hamni lar i a e , wh i 1 e the other Mammilariae do not show a 



whieh is not 1-6 years old • 



Düring the 2nd half of last nonth I was unf ortunately only a 

 Dyer ? 



few hours on the Dy, thus having no time to read your Communications from 

 the c th. The latter had the luck this Summer, that a plant fl owered for 

 him, which he up to now considered a x&xfcfcxx variety of Echinopsis rho- 

 carOha. The flower is however so stränge and of another species, that 

 there is no doubt, that^Ufcafc-a new divisiorr arises, which takes accor- 

 ding to the flower the same position in the Gerei , as does Nopalea in 

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