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Prince Salm 



March 22,1850 



formibus, carnosis;pulvillis setis pe^ioillatirrr collectis,: acn^ 

 lisque instructis plus mirusque apnlanatis, soepe arundinacei s, £ olio ~ 

 Iis fere inconspicuis 11 I am well aware, that all this does rot fit 

 exactly for your plant; the character o^ the § (c^ylindraceae, though,, 

 would do this even less, 5 and in T BUch dub' ious choices, the choice 

 must be determined by a main character». Here, it seems to me to be the 

 form and arrangenent of the spines-, and if Your Wellborn would have 

 bef ore your eyes the p ♦ a ^ d i c ol a , pr 1 on erata , and p 1 q t y a c a r t h a wi t h 

 their varieties, I believe, you would share my opiniom. The Op«. 

 clavata forms the transition to the Cylindraceaer In. our books, we 

 can only follow one straight» continuous line, whereas Nature Bäkes 

 her connections crosswise and sideways-. Unf ortunately only t I could 

 not position the two sections Platycanteae and Cylindraceae next to 

 each other, and. they are separated by the ^ glomeratae». 



I believe, to have told JEour Wellborn just about allL, which is 

 needed for the explanatiorr of my work. The copy you will receive by 

 way of Bremen as soon as can ship it..I am glad to learn, that you? 

 know our Sloppy-hats, and, may God help, that you have thenr in your 

 eountryv I I believe in your power of assimilatioxr ; I beliwe, that the 

 people, who in our old part of the world are only d/classe ( belonging 

 to a lower social class, E.D. ) f who mostly through their own fault,, 

 have in vain tried all resources and ways, to get to a subsitence 

 existence,- or t . those, wh ose acti vities do not produce anything use- 

 full here, will find with you, what they did not find here.~ Most of 

 them, though, are lazy people,- who wart all pleasures of life with out- 

 lab our, and will to a large part, if they can f , come back to us, after 

 having convinvced themselvee* that in America too an active and order- 

 ly life is demanded in order to achieve something.. You say, they will 

 be swept along; I, too, will hope for this,. The Irish are lazy,. through 

 the misery of hunger, possibly deraoralized human s; But they do not \i<x\j<u 



