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first of you on account of loss of time. I Hope, you will not get 

 mad about this trial. - Of £ch » Scheeril I send you a small seedling 

 plant and a dead original plante Seeds are unf ortunately not available 

 any more; it too has a naked, green fruit" and the seeds are round-like,, 

 light brown, and smooth. - 



IT we had by now a a focal point relative to the norphological sig- 



nificance of spines-, Areoles, etc. for the cacti,we would undoubtedly 

 have pro<rressed" 



irmeh further in the knowledp-e of this so stränge family of plant s; 

 in this relatiorr though this faraily Stands entirely isoleted between the 



You say, you posess fu^row-less Ham , c or yphant a. ; but which ? Kas it 

 not been described ?' Has it never had furrows and has it already bloomed 

 without furrows centrally out of the axillae ? Won f t it be ny - Eon. tu - 

 lensis or only similar; this one flowers entirely in the habitus of a 

 Mamillaria .but blooms centrally out of the areoles. . 



I am completely of your opinion, that the Fulvillus is the larger 

 or lesser approachment of the genna floralis and gemna aculeif era , With 

 many species of Echinocacti the two gemnae stand strongly apart, with 

 some by several lines, thus, e.g. with £ , . hexadrophorus , E «- to^^u^ ; 



with others, e»g, the (AiaerotTieTa^ and (6l and ul lirerae ^* t h e v stand apart so 



always, though, the connection of the two genma e is clearly indicated (at 

 least then,when the plant really flowers) through the fu.rrow, which du- 

 ring flowering is even always wool bearinsc, and, thus, nrese^ts. so to 



which I consid er a true Ec h i noc ac t u s . nu s t flower in the nid die of the 

 1JÄN^, and I would have postulated this, even if you had rot observed the 

 inf lorescense; ^ecause, with. it, the two gemmae are notjthat far apart as 

 with other- aulerothelae , The sarae applies for Kch . Sheerii G., which 

 blooms in the middle of the small, i^©<fe-like lumps. - Unf ortunately, , 



others. 



far, that the flower is positioned at the base of the hump or the tmi& 9 . 



