Jacobi 



March 19, I867 



to belonn- to the groupe in which öfter, f oru 



raation of thread occurs on the leaf rims, but it is definitely not 

 A. f llamentosatt as you will see fron the description of the flower,, 

 given by ne on ps 199 and 200,. 



? A« Grefcgli " seens to be a still unknown forn to us. 



Anyhow, I will mention in an appendix those plants known to me 

 fron ny own inspectiorr, and shall therefor be much oblipred about 

 Communications about the Agavae in your life. I would be very glad t , 

 if I could «ret viable seed of your A. naculata and a plant of A. 

 virp-inica« 



The descriptions and illustrations by Hooker in the Botanical 

 Magazine are unf ortunatelyv very incomplete and of a superficial na- 

 ture, so that one can not rely on then . I received some time back- 

 a lot of hybrids from the deceased* Schaef er, which he developed by 



pollinating- Phylft. crenatus wlth other» Phylocactl* or hybrids 



with different <eerei ,-an,d in this year I will have the pleasure,. 

 to see the flowers of these plants.. Most curious I am about a fer- 

 tillzatiorr of Phyl. . p hylanthoid eg with Echier. . aoifer.., of whicH I 

 have at least h dozen plants, which howe^er do not show important 

 differerces in the land of the 



In politics ouV* views apparently do not coincide ?' If we could 

 freely express ourselves, I believe, that we are not so far apart,, 



You were disturbed about afo«z>atofy the behaviour of our generals 

 in your home-ci ty ( verbatim: i f f ather-ci ty" , E. D. ) . If you, however,, 

 consider, how smoothlyy the hatred against Prussia has beerr ■ f ired 

 up, ©specialis from Frankfurt, and how the commonplace, non.e t r sacks 

 believed to pernit thenselves anything against Prussia in their 

 untoucheable securi ty, you will concede, that a strict appearance,, 

 at least in the be.^inning^,, was at least exouseable»- even conside- 

 ring the suaviter in modo« I myself did live 6 years in Frank- 



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