Ree. Oct. 15 

 Ars. H 22 



Berlin- Sept. 19,, l8 5Z(H 



Most honored. Sir ! 



Returned f^om my journey in Texas, Mexico and East India, frorr 

 which I brought several beautiful new cacti, today I want to direct 

 a request to you. Düring my presence in St. Louis I saw at your place 

 many fine speeimens of Ech. setlsplnus . Em ein. The same species or 

 a very close variety I found quite frequently in Texas and. Mexico. 

 At close Observation one finds however, that they all are provided 

 withhook-shaped, recurved, central spines.As they, thus f , would be - 

 long to the variety Ech. setlsplnus framatus . and I have not suc - 

 ceeded in finding- an E. setlsplnus without those hook~spin.es in any 

 collection,! permit myself the questlorr, , if your speeimens really 

 do not posess hook-spines, and if this should be the case, I ask 

 you to send me several speeimens of it; as this is not available in 

 Berlin,Leipzig or Erfurt. If you have the occasion, to fulfill my 

 request, I ask you, to direct the cactus as soon as posslble per 



Steaßhip via Bremen, sso that it may arrive before Winter. If you 



wart to add otherwise something interesting or new, you would ob - 

 lige me very much, and I am gladly Willing to render counter Ser- 



vices. 



Most devotedly 



H.Poselger 



Kronenstrasse No. 39 



( translated from German script by Edgar Denison, May 1988 ) 

 As the Xerox copy is illenci ble, tra^slation was made frosr 

 the original letter at the Mo. Botanical Görden* 



