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accord.in.cr to the f Towers belongs to jgchinocerei ? I have never seen 

 the f Tower; it is however pictureM/in the Botanical Mag. t. 3651, 

 and seeras to belong there. I could then let the ^ Lophogoni dis~ 

 appear, , and corabine the an.CT.losi , costati , and pectlnati into a ^ 

 Echinocerei . Unf orturately ! the flo^rers of the irm.lt 1 castati ' are 

 entirely unknown to us; This subdivision too may perhaps belong to 

 Echinocerei » Your Echoe . dasyacanthus with my C. linensis would. 

 form, the transition from Sectinati to multicostati , and such a Or- 

 der would be most healthy ! May orte dare this with kood luok T It 

 is equally darlng though / to consider the multicostati as true 

 Cerelf that. however is aeeepted, and without positive reason and 

 better knowledge it can not be changed». I want to think about it sone 

 more» I really work for the future; bu I should be permitted a guess f; 

 and give the reasons for it. After all f we deal with a sub-divi - 

 siorr, and only a combination of related. Speeles.. At this occasiorr 

 I need to justify my genus Malacocarpus in more detail: 'I said al- 

 ready above, that I looked for a transition of the tfclbus Melocac- 

 teae to the tribus Echinocacteae : the ^ Gymnocarpi did already 

 exist; it was dif f erentiated already through its own habitus, and : 

 throu^h the soft berry, which remains hidden always in the cotton 

 of the Vertex; which is so sof t-skinned as the fruit of a Kamilla - 

 ria , , without soales, and carried only a few wool tufts; also the 

 flowers are smaller, alnost without tube.I know the berry of E. 

 setispinus : it is red; it has, however, very dlstinct scales,. 

 and Stands free upon the areole. My Bacca mollis succara can not 

 be - taken as opposite to Bacca sicca. All berries of the Echino - 

 cacti are leather-like and hard through the lyi ng on top of each 

 other of the scales ( in comparison at least with Hanillariae & 

 Melocacteae ) > - Further, Your Wellborn do not seen to put enough 

 weight on my character of Bacca im^ersa and Bacca a princinio 



