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Prir.ce Sa In 



May l,l p 4P 



n Phylla petaloida, coarctato - erecta. Stanina nunerosa, collecta, ultra 

 limbum lonpce producta. Stylus staninibus lo-npri or , cylxndraous, supra na- 

 sin noduloso -dilatatus' 1 Also, the flowers are blood-red, as are the 

 f ilaments. - Your Sellhorn will thus see, how different both charac- 

 ters a^e. With an exact definition of Onu.ntiae they could not stay 

 unit ed. in the same genus ( Nopalea ) Though, in an other way, I would 

 have preferred, if all could have remained" as of old..As to the spe - 

 cies, I received seeds of one.fr om you fron Matamoras, which prosp^red, , 

 and which seem to belong to the ^ cylindraceae ; Do you remember this 

 Speeles ? If I am not mi staken, the opus of Nüttal is naned Flora 

 Americana septentrionalis (or borealis) . I never posessed it, but it 

 is cited ever-ywhere. I ircluded in ny shipnent the Op . f ra/rilis , which 



the Cylan^raceae but to the ^ Diva^icatae (I just find the title of the 

 opus of Muttal in the Supplement of Haworth, where he cites with Op . 

 fragills H Nüttal venera nova amerc!* p.296). I am therefor most inter - 

 ested. to reeeive the Op. f ru^escens and macrorhl za. . I in^.edi ately had 

 a letter written to Mr. Westhoff in Breman. . Unf ortunately we are at 

 war with D&nnark t. We beat them on land , but on the sea they are 

 stronger, and they rauch disturb our commerce» The Elbe is blockaded; 

 of the Weser I have however heard nothing (Elbe and Weser are large». 

 German rivers, E.D. ).I f ear further, that an american package could. not 

 ship throu,rrh unnolested. I shall operate with Mr. Lindheiner as you 

 mertioned', and shall forward tbm mm to your Mr. brother in Frank - 

 fu.rt the sum, wh,ich amounts to the value of the plant s in local com- 

 merce after deduetion of freirrht. 



I have partlally ordered the & oyllndraceae diffe^e^t fron what 

 Mr. Poerster State s in his opus (accordlng to ny first Classification). 

 They renain divided, as they were, , into crassa e, -^r aciles , and tuber - 

 culatae( the latter subdivision solely for Op. Poepplgli .which. per- 



