6 - Frlnce Salm Oct, 13, 18^9 



cuthelae; - the sulcus is, however, not constant,and forns only,.when 



the mamilla prolif erates. . I , therefor, made the Speeles JU sphaeru - 

 lata , Fottsii , convidea », stroholifera , : radialis , loricata , radiosa , si r 

 milis. . vivipara a^d g vi m la into a subdivisiorr, the centri Spinae 

 * namillis plus minusve sulcato adventitio barbato r supra natalis,, and 

 could have put the M. calcarata also here# if it could be separate^ 

 f rom M. scolynoid.es and your M»macroneris (it does not prosper here) 1 «.. 



Yöu sent me your Cer.Deppei » which is not ours; but what is 

 it ? I oannot decide yet« The same goes for your Cer..prostratus : 

 Both plant s are alive and growing,, only still too snall, to be able 

 to say sonething.. ~ I really worked with the Opuntiae» I separated*, 

 as you know, the genus Napalea fron the Opuntiae; I would have liked 

 to separate also the ^ Cylindraceae ! I had to be satisf ied, to say 

 in a not er 



11 Plantae onnes huie sectloni ad scriptae toto hatljbu a coeteri^ 

 opuntiis recidunt et typun generis novi probere videntur; sed. ad ejus 

 institutionem imensque deficient characteres e partibus f ruetif leati- 

 onis sumptos, . In hortis nostraliibus (ratione ignota) nuraquam floru- 

 erunt'hae plantae et flores f rutusque duarun snecierum solunr (O.cy- 

 lindricae ..... et 0. rosea DC, nobis ex iconibus imperfecte cormitis, 

 nullo' discrinine vero, a genere Opuntia separari possunt.. Mec Dr. 

 Engelnann, qui species perplurus in patria vidit, Discrimen ullun 

 in floris forna, observavit: • bacca natura quoque nulluni adhibet, et 

 varie ovt sicca, out pulposa est; sed in struetura seninun discrimen 

 notabile inven.it: rid.it, nenpe, enbryon spirate et vix albuninosurrr 

 in. Opuntiis applanatis, et solunnado- curvatuji , cun al ~unin.e satis co- 

 pioso,.in. opuntiis cylindracei s» Inquirendus erro renanet character 

 genericus a genere Opuntia satis d x Lstunc tus. rt 



