Prince Salm 



Oct. 13, 1849 



Your 0. frutescens I have accepted as dif ferent from O.pracilis. - 

 Your 0. arborescens is = 0. stellata Mob. as I did not give a des - 

 cription and yours is good, I, also, accepted your remarks. Fur- 

 ther I took of your opuntiae; 0. Enge'lmannii ' Hob, . (this one Stands 

 betweeir ' Dillenil an d polyacantha) 0, setlspina_ Engelm,, and 0«. 

 jnacrorhiza ( the latter between 0, Intermedia, and vulgaris )), I still 

 have another from you 11 e Chihuahua" ; without further naming"; this 

 too is new, and. grows well; but is still too snall for description- 

 Of the seeds of 0., pheracantha nothlno* has germinatedf, Of O.clavata 

 only two seedcorns, , which, however, are healthy plant s,. About its 

 Position I am enbarassed?. . It could not be brought into the Cylandra- 

 ceae, and. was forced into the ^ Platyacanthae, where, by the way 

 it does not fit well either* . Should there . as it seens, be other re- 

 lated species ?? Then they could. by themselves form a ^ . I wanted: 

 to write to Prof, Braun in Freiburg-, to get from him, if possible», 

 the Plantae f ondllhirianae. — 



Receive, Your Wellborn, my best wishes for your conjfenued well- 

 bei ng. There won't be a shortness of Germans in America soorr. If this 

 will be happy for the country, I can really not say. Wlth few excep- 

 tions it will only be bad trash, which is used to live in disorder 

 and. of disorder. Those kind of people will have a hard time to face 

 life wlth you, as they will find, it in America. 



Most friendly and devoted 



Prince to Salm Dyck 



( trans'lated. from German and Latin script" by Ed/rar Denison 



May/June 1988) 



