2 - Prince Saln Jan, 11, 1848 



obtained for myself. If it is correct, I cannot deternine:: It 



resembles the Ech. . tiponsis . and f besides, is In such a sad condi- 



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tion, that I consider it as dead. and. lost, . Concerning [ .LlndheimerJ 

 I had asked yon for sone news.Where does he live ? And, hoi* could 

 I find out,what cacti can be obtained fron hin? - The Enumerati 

 and Texas plant s, announced in your letter of November 10 t 1846 , . 

 I have never received, and thus, I could never nake a selectiorr of 

 them. Since that letter I have also your letters of July 5 and 

 Ausru st 3, l84?;but the Enume ratio has been missed;. 



With the greatest pleasure would I recieve those Speeles,, 

 which you have described; in not tooljLar.fre , though fully developed* 

 speeimens. Mr. Potts did send several cacti fron the area of Chi - 

 huahua to Mr. Scheer in. England; the shipnents, however, nostly net 

 with disaster, and none of it has been described-I have orljr one 

 of Cer. Pottsii in my eollection, which I named thus acoording to 

 the wish of Mr. Scheer, and which really is a new species (di Vi- 

 sion nultangrulares ) 



What your wellborn says about the tribe of pectinatae and. of 

 their flowers, I too observed; they are rea.lly Cerei , and not 

 Bchln opside c I posess pect Ina tum - and. Reichenbachii « which is nuch 

 smaller and daintier;I have /though a sceleton of a larger 



• • kind, which is dif ferent fron the two others 



They all proliferate aif the . and have the characters of my 



cerei suloatr » proliferl , of which these could forn a subdivi siorr.. 

 This is a very essential correcti orr of the Organization of the 

 Cactus family.. 



IT your wellborn could obtain the species ; d.etemined by you:, 

 through purchase, . in the ca.se that you yourself can not give them" 

 upg, I would be nuch obliged?.. By all means I ask for a copy of your 

 diagnoses. . 



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