Ree Nov. 7, Kt>eln October f f l855 



A"s. March 16,1856 



Most appreclated Sir Doctor ! 



I ^ead with greatest Interest your Communications of M archr 



31 resp. June 13 and off er ny sincerest thanks for the shipment of 



the seeds. M. Nutallii unf ortunately did not gerninate; the seeds were 



most likely damapred in the closing of the "Letter, which I reeeived? from 



Dure through the postal Service ( ? E.D. ) f because they were mostly bro- 



ken, and those, which renained whole, did not germinate. . C. fdganteus 



seens to be a delicate plant 1 and primarly does not tolerate noisture». 



I had reeeived your fron Prince Salm-, in speeimens of about 



dianeter. u 

 f[\ 1 'hl 1 in 1 cn ; the sign looks like this ^) • E.D..)A11 these 



plants however perishedr though I kept them in a hotbed und er glass.The 

 /~six 



M seedlinprs which frerminated fron your shipnent a year ago, I keep ra- 



ther dry and hope to keep then 



njs f OA^dJ^-Ve K*> Jpccoe wtl^, 



I would have liked to have written you earlier, but the Summer con- 

 ti'^ 



tained the in Achen a^d the tew free time I devote 



then to ray Warden. 



My Mannilaria and also a part of the Echinocactus flowered very 

 prolif ically, and I have reaped already a rather impressive seed har- 

 vest. Unf ortunately the tine ha s been unavailable so far, to study the 

 seeds und er the viewpoint, that one could perhaps find, in the seeds- a 

 reference for a systenatic divisiorrof this plant family/ ,for which I 

 had nade certain observati ons, and which- nade ne suppose, that M . cri - 

 ni ta for instance had entirely black, cupiDing-glass-like seeds, has 

 been connletely • "oushed aside through remarks nade by ne, that M.Bo- 

 ca ssana have red-bordered, egg-shaped seed s , however not with smoothr 

 surf ace, but with small ; hemj sphe^i c indentations on the seed cover in 

 regulär ranks. - Accordinsc to shape and color of seeds of H. Nutallii' 

 I would assign these plants to the M. crinitae , if the above nentio- 

 ned- renarks afford a reference.. V 



I shall 1 send to you several fruits of all plants, of which I: 



