9 Poselger 7»l6.l855 



Of M . erlnacea ^1 send you a te&fc (the German word is Warze = wart, 



E.D.)i I received last Sprint a nimber of Mamillariae fron Mexico, of 



which hardly two individuals could be foun&, which would have beere sini- 



laf to each othei% . I selected three main formst and descrlbed then und er 



the nanes- M • pachythele , nelanocentra and erlnacea ; the others f orned 



a strande sequenee of varieties and tra^sitions between the three,. '-and 



if I had wanted to descrifce then all, I would have to create at least 



20 - 30 different ones out o^ themv. Of the very beautiful 1 3 raain forns 



seedling plant s are at band, but I doubt, that they will remain true 



to the mother plant s» . 



The Man , bicolor in no way resembles the pusilla ; I send you a 



live one. But a plant, which does resemble pusilla , ■ probably a variety 



of it t , I found in Texas near Corpus Christi; of this too I send you a 



live one; it has not yet been descrlbed* 



Bch . setispinus robustus Poselg. is not C. uncinatus . The latter 



I found freque^faly in a strong, beautiful variety» . It is found singly*,, 



but widely distributed in northern Mexico, but I never found it in colo- 



raature 



nies # .0f the first I unf ortunately posess only a Single original I spe - 



einen, which does not permit the renoval of a spine bündle without dis- 



f iguring the plant.. 



Ech . . hexaedrophorus fron the area of San Luis Potosi I send you:- 



the raost speeimens flower snow- white; a few however also lilac-reddlsh.- 



Also of Cer. Blandii I send you a live specinen, It will at any case 



belong to the division Echinocereus. I never found a si.crn of flowers or 



fruit s on then. 



IT, now, want to give you an inventory of all I send you: 



( a faxinile copy of the inventory is attached to this translatlon 



E.D.J 



By book-post I send you a number of copies of the Garden news - 

 paper and acatalogue of the local collection of Linke. Besides, I 

 enclose a of Man , erlnacea and seeds of M. . rland^H^ra , M. re - 



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