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Aculei exteriores 12 - l8 t? lin. 6 lomi , graciles, patentissimi f , 

 alludi. Flores poll. 2 cun diraideo lati, phyllis nuner osis, erecto- 

 _recurvulis, , tanciolatis, acutl s, sulphureis; sepa loideis angusti' - 

 oribus inte^. r-- ais, dorso "Linea notatis; petaloideis adnarpj/nes 

 superne denticulatis. Stamina conn.iventi s, filanentis purpuras - 

 centibus anterinque croceis. . Stylus starainibus longior, columna - 

 ris crassus, flavescens, stignatibus conculoribus et cylindraceis,, 

 jabbreviatis, subcapi tatin- collectis. Gaulis ovato-globosus, diametra 

 k pollicarU - coluntur in hortis varietates perplures, quae aculcr- 

 run lonritudine ac colore aspecie plus minusve verdunt. 



Of these varieties I only raentioned twoc ß longlsota and 

 ^ nigricans ; it would be easy to describe others, and your M.. ni - 

 grocalcarata . and raay-be even oalcarata itself may belong there. 

 Of your species I posess M. slmllis and the var. ß robustior . I 

 have put thera in the % crinitae next to deciplens and vetuta ; 

 further M. applanata and fron seeds M. radlosa , Haemlsphaeriga bar- 

 ,fo*ta, vi vi^ara var, (Friedrichsweg) ♦ Here I forgot H. calcarata , and. 

 forgot also to teil you with M. scolynoides »fchat the Vi. strohuli - 

 fornis , of which you give a diagnosis in. your letter, alraost con- 

 pletely agrees with that for scolynoides . I, also, have given the 

 name already to another species. - Of Echinocaoti I have E. setisni - 

 nus 9^A the variety (3 hamata ( the nane I keep intact) i sone E. 

 texensls from seeds, and E. Wislizenii (the 3rd specinen of Lind- 

 heimer, which I thought to resurect, has now also gone ad patres ) 

 (to the fathers, E.D.) Of your Echinocerei I have Roeneri and 

 coespitosus in 3 varieties; unf ortunately, however, has the vari- 

 et y castanea died. I want to see, if I can keep the Echinocereus 

 as subdi Vision of the genus Cereus : it will depend, if the plant, 

 which you have under the nane Cer . Deppei , and which nost pro - 

 bablylp C^ pentalorhus DC.( C.propinquus P-373) 



