Ree*. June 15, 1^53 

 A-s. Feb. 26,1855 



Dyck May 22, ,1853 



Yöur Wellborn 



may have reeeived ny letter fron ^aris, . and, at my return to 

 Dyck it is my first care, tonrespond to your wishes expressedtn your 

 letter of Jaruary 18, as well as I am able.= B'y accident I reeeived: 

 the 5th" section of the H Blühende Cakteen 1 * by Mr. . Pfeiffer in dupli ~ 

 cate; also, by accident,, this came out better then the earlier ones,, 

 and the illustrations may be recomended to youi; f or imitatiom The text„ 

 however(,in German and Prench languafres) is very unintelligible; The 

 work contains also many error ss and in this 5th section e.g.. is 

 EcMroc. ohvallatus the lanclfer Dleve,,and the. Man, nigricans Is the 

 M.phoeacantha Lern, I enclose also a few lithoprraphs, which have beert 

 made in my hon.se, and that is all I can find.. 



Further, I send you a sceleton of a A^haloniun, which Mr. Posel- 

 srer found in Mexico ( and the juice of whie** ts used as glue)l It seens 

 to be a var. of A. elon^atum« Your We Ilhorn will, however, convi.ro e 

 himself at first view, that a plant so construeted, can not be a 

 Maral Ilaria . . I , also, enclose a leaf of Anhal. pri snaticum. . 



0f the Pelecyphora I only find pieces of a cut-up plant, It was 

 the size of a chicken escg; ■ becane sick, and was tirae after time cut 

 into disks , to see, if sound tissue could still br found.. At the Up- 

 per end, though you will be able to recognlze the form of the plant..,, 

 and you will also convince yourself , that the small humps, which co - 

 v er the plari£, , have nothing in common with the warts of the Mamlllarlae.. 

 One could rather ask, if Pelecyphora is really a cactus ? 



Mr. Poselger has now carried out his task' and the sections of 

 the Mamlllarlae glandullf erae q^d aulacothelae . of which the first sub- 

 divisiorr of the £ ce^trisrinae was transferred to the genus Eching. 

 cactus. and about that I have told Your Wellborn already my oninion.. - 

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