Prince Salm 



0>ct. 13» 1849 



that, further, , Leuchtenheriria s|mds first in the trlbua Cereasta- 

 ceae, and, thus, , connects directly /with the Theloidei» thereby es- 

 tahlishing a transition. . 



I shall now start with the printing of my work, and. nust 

 leave its destiny to the judgement of the botanieal world ! I be- 

 lieve to have told you, that it is planned to form a continuation? of 

 the Emmeratio of Pfeiffer (?? E.D.) and will have the title:: 

 '•Cacteae in horto Dykensi cultae, anno 18^9; additis characterlbus 

 specierum a Hr. Pfeiffer in Enumeratione Diaprnostieo non Descriptarum 41 

 The number of notes ( deoriptions, corrections, renarks) is very 

 large, and amounts (for the one tribus Melocatus) to about 150 ! As 

 soon as it will have been. printed, , Iwill send it to Your Wellborar.^ 

 H an , c al c ar ata I had. acoepted as Speeles ( pl.note: this is the first 

 time Salm uses the word Speeles in bis letter, in all other cases- he 

 uses 11 Art 11 as synonym. E.D.) it seems to me to be sufficiently dif- 

 ferent fron scolynoides. M, nigra calcarata I do not posess, and d.id 

 also not place it as synonym to ray scolymoides Ajf nigricans. , More dif- 

 ficult was it with your M. strobilif ormis: I had already a M. strobi- 

 lif ornis when vour menoir arrived; I had reeeived it under this name 

 from England, and pronised to describe it and. include. This all was 

 done, and the right of priori ty would have been gained by your plant, 

 if I had not convinced nyself after nore exaet comparlson of the di - 

 agnoses, that your strobilif orni s colneides with M. ceraoidea . This 

 species has its own fortune: The description (Emer. p. 35) is goodf 

 the Illustration" (D.CMemoir t.2) rather true, and yet, this has 

 been ml staken frquently t Scheidweiler called it H inconspicua H i Le- 

 maire "dlaphanacantha" ; Pfeiffer hinseif later w echinocactoides* ; 

 and you finally f> strobi lifomi s" : - the red flower, though, is determi- 

 ning. Both plants though come to stand next to each other-, only in 

 another section than previously. They stood e^rlier with the auto - 



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