Prince Salm March 7, 1856 



caulis 8-10 Zollaltus et ultra, diametrobipollica rl« Areolae 5-6 lin» . 

 distantes, Aculei exteriores lin. 6-9 longi; centra lem pollicares« 

 Plantae juniores 7 angularis; aculeis albis, exterioribus saep lsslme 

 8 et une centrall» 



crasslor PC caule crassiore,faeciculis a c ul e o r um distantior ibus > acul 

 trisque fuscis. H 



I thank for the correction concerning your C.Peppel; It will be 

 named in the fufcure thus C.Berlandieril and is a proper and good spe- 

 cies. - I also had received from you another plant under the name C. 

 j prae cumbens ♦ 1 1 bloomed for me too,and as you did not describe it any 

 place, nor spoke about it, I considered it the tru C,pentalophus ^ 

 leptacanthus PC 1 : the flower is still larger and more beautiful than 

 that of Berlandierii « Besides, I own still another species of this 

 clan of Pottfc type tt Cäule carnososubpedali tenui (diametro vix 8 lin ear!) 

 7-8 costatOylaetivir idl, v nitido, basi prolifero; pulv illis confer- 

 tis; aculeis 10 - 12 mlnutis, setacei s albis Ht ' — 



This plant has the soft,fleshy contexture characteristic of this 

 section; it has not yet flowered. Never would I have thought, that C., 

 tuberosus Posel« would belong herei- 



March 17 ) I really consider itt advisable to separate (( in the genus 

 Mamillaria) the Eumamillariae from the C'oryphantlae» . You will be em - 

 barassed though about a few species^ which, at least for me, would be 

 incertae sedis? : : These are the species^" Mamillis minutus, sulento ad- 

 ventitisr prolifero notatis "y such as< M.parvlmamma , Pottsll ^ strobl ■ 

 lif ormis - Scheei yvivlpara , . radlata, and conoldea PC. — As M^vivipara », 

 as you say, belong s to the Coryphantls, it is probable, that the others 

 (as already known for M.convldea) x belong also, and these species 

 would f orm a small subdl Vision Parvimammae» ■ At this oportunity I want 

 to sketch here some Synonyms. . Your M. strobllif ormis is conoidea^ PC- 



