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In viewing the magnif icent forns of M. jgU4aga»tha-. Grahami , bar- 

 bata, specialis phellosperna and Wrightil . I can only exp^ess ny 

 crreatest re^ret, that we do not posess them in Europe, and hardly 

 ever will obtain them. 



M . Scherii . til?t! . . This strapping plant unf orturiately does not 

 exist in Europe either. I have only a dead specinen from the coli- 

 ection of prince Salm, and, , if I an not raistaken, saw there its 

 description, which, as far as I renenber, agrees with your descri- 

 tion. With it my Bch . Saltillensis , which also does not exist any more 

 alive, must be very closely related, Neither is anything living ex- 

 tant of M . r o.bu s t i s s4^ar and. recurvi snina . - It seems, that all these 

 thick-nippled Mamillariae are mich nore tender and perish easier 

 than other s, though they stand the long voyage well, so that they 

 appear more beautiful and f^esher than other species upon unpacking. 

 M» pertinata is a variety of M . cornif era , i . e. M » c ornl f » radl ans , 

 equally so M. -fci^me . gnd scolymoid.es , as you yourself have already 

 remarked.- Of M,|4^ffl«e- I received a beautiful, dead specimen from 

 the Botanical Garden, as well as H. calcarata , tuberrulosa. and. 

 "iS^Sä^Stha^ (?? E.D.). Of M. vivipara I received one of the specimens 

 sent by you, which. , however, does not want to grow happily again- 

 It completely agrees with the old H. majFromeris. described by Shaw. 

 ff this so beautiful and interesting species I had raised two seed- 

 lings, which, however, later perished to my greatest sorrow. 



H. fissurata Of this I posess- two very fine sceletons. As I men - 



tioned earlier, I was surprised, that you put the genus A^halonium 

 with Hamillaria, the nore so, as the shape and surface of the seeds 

 are very divergent fron the other Mamillariae . But I am of the opi- 



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nion, that the genu sPe^fyy^eya beloms with An^alo^iura . as the 



seeds are totally similar.Of Fele^yphora only dead specimens are 

 now on hand; with these the tubercles close entirely together, *m 



