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3. E. Boelgerll beloners Standing by itself (?) heredi stin*rui shes it- 

 seif, however, through its considerably longer, softer, and weaker 

 sections, as well as through the füll bettle shape and lesser hairy- 

 ness. Would God want, that ny very strong, old plant wonld cone in- 

 to flower,. 



^« E. tenuis does certainly stand olose to procumbens but has 

 humped members and remains much sraaller in all parta with excep - 

 tion of the spines, which are much stronfrer again,. The rijps consist 

 of 6-sided humps.. 



5. - E. Scheerll though it flowered several times for rae, it never set 

 fruit 1 . As soon as this happens, I will send you sone.. 



6. E. glyclraorphns is still different from E. pauoisplnus . Besides,, 



we raust wait for the f Tower.. 



very different fromr 



7. E. con^l oneratus is / E., cuneacanthus in all a^d every way . 



The stiff, straight arising raembers distinguish it at the first vlew 



from Litzleum (??? E.D. ) with its slack; little ascending members 



and their half epidermis; the position of the links 



is also substantially dif f erent. . The members of E. congl . have a 

 club- 



more inverted, somewhat stretched \f ormn ; they always cone to a point 

 toward the top.. 



8..E. Salnianus has a green stigma. Here is a description of the flower 

 Flowers from the older areolesr, of ten more from the basis of the axis,, 

 tube 31 ,# long J" 1 dm, toward the calyx pointed cup-shaped-, somewhat' 



green with muddy white stripes between pullvillie 



Pul villi | - J » distant, raised humped , long-woolly, wi th 4 inner and 

 9-10 outer brushlike spines, all' extending straight, the 3 longest 

 fork-like turned,wavy- the areoles are protected by a lengthy* poinw 

 ted, red scale.- Sepals linear yellowi sh-rose-red with a dirty-greenr 

 ce^ter stripe. Petals in 3 rows-, yellowish with white point Sj pretty y 

 alraost carmim Stamens very numerous, white below from the middle up 



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