2 Prirce Salm Feb. 18, 1855 



other 10 sections through its large, top-positi. oned" f lowers, . nore 

 def initely than throurrh the fernen exsertun (which here and there is 

 only subexsertun). It can becone the type for a new ^enus, in which 

 severa l Jgch ^^ic , , gibbosi, and theloidei, with juicy berries, can be 

 united;But, one can choose another way out, which I mention in the 

 enclosed essay, and which, at this time, is the simplest.. 



Simultaneously I give several important corrections in the diag- 

 noses .of sections and in the Organization of the species; the |T cen- 

 trispina. with which I was not satisfied, has now becone honogenous 



as well as the glandnlif erae«. - I, also, expressed myself nore speci- 

 fically about, what is a species and what a variety, and hope to be 

 in agreenent with Your Wellborn. You alone, being in the proper place,, 

 can solve the doubts through new observations, which have becone for 

 us so nysterious,as we do not recelve any nore original plant s t and 

 posess only diverting off Springs of plant s received earlier in our 

 gardens. - This is specially the case with the Manillariae and Echino- 

 cacti; which permitted propagation through seeda» Also, I occupy ny - 

 seif much rather with other genera, which remained true.> 



Mr. Poselger described in the year befire the last in an issue 

 of the Garten Zeitung? 3 ne w Manillariae as original plant s; IT. pachy - 

 tele, , nelanocentra , and erinacea fron the area of Saltillo,, and an 

 Echinoc . Rlnconensis - Mr. Potts has arrived an:ain in Mexico.. His 

 profession is researeh into the deposits of precious netals, and, in 

 this way, he has gotten into areas, which nobody had visited yet.. He 

 was escorted, and took laborers along, who provided security. The cac- 

 ti were only subordinate; 3ut, as he is interested in them, and his 

 brother ( whom he unf ortunately has lost) helped hin, he collected 

 much and shipped it to Kr. Scheer in London. This one, though an ar- 

 dent a.nateur, had, unf ortunately, , no sufficient Warden Installation* 

 and also quite unique ideas about the culture of cacti'; with hin al- 



