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cacti are coryphantiV and the diverse nee of the stem ((with humps or 

 ribbed) does not provide a genetic dif f erence. . By the way, Anhalonlumn 

 (at least Anha. elongatum and prismaticum ) ) belong to the laterlf loris^ 

 and thus, it would be better according to myvideas, to try to sepa - 

 rate the Mamlllariae int o Eumamillarlae and Coryphantae» - — You know 

 too few of the species, which belong to the first group, to reject 

 out of hand my sections? * but it is different with the second 1 group, , 

 which with me contains the last sectiorc Anhacothele: : There you are at 

 home, and can determine out of superior knoweldge a different sub-divi- 

 sion'-, ,and include the species, which I have consideredr 1 - perhaps erro- 

 neously - as laterif lorae« I must speak here about a reservation, which 

 I have been able to eliminatei . where do the species belong^ with 



"mamlllls medioeribus , e sulcyto adventitio viviparis * T (as e.g.. 

 pauvimamma , vi vlpara and still others)}I never saw them in flower, and 

 do not know, where the flower is positioned:? • that I know, that the 

 young shoots (as, by the way with the Aulocothelae ) ) appear right be- 

 hind the spine bündle s* . Thus, I did not consider this Situation, and: 1 

 these species stand with me in part in the ^ crinitae, in part in the 

 Stlltigerae and centri Spinae» . Your projected subdivisions' Cacti scentes» , 

 vittiferae and minutae do not suf f ice, and would probajty resplt in he- 

 terogen! c compositions ( probably betterj conf rontations, E.D. ) 



Sömething sirailar, i.e. heterogenous corabinations, could also 

 happen with your Classification of the Opuntiae. Here too, I would ad- 

 vise you, to restrict yourself to a better elaboratiorc of the 6..^ ( Cy- 

 lindraceae) \ and to use there the division into <?C Bacca sicca; and 



Bacca carnosa ; for I remember, that the bacca of Op.floccosa is so 

 hard, that a Sharp knife could hardly open itt. The subdivision of 

 tt £mbryone spirali and subcircularl " is^ood, and may be used sometime 

 as a genus chaeacter\ ^ 





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