Ree. Paris July 2& 

 Ans, Aug. 19 



Dyck July 19.I857 7 



Your Wellborn 1 s 



welcome letter of the l6th arrived, and made an end to the un- 

 certainty concerning your locality. - I f also, , reeeived youf letter 

 in which you had the kindness f to teil me the result of your Visit 

 to the garden of Messrs Maage and Senke, and I own one of the large 

 speeimensr of Leuchtenbergia? . which you saw at Maage* - I believed 

 to have annouced to Your Wellborn the arrival of the shipment from 

 St. Louis? Tt arrived happily, though the plants had been packed in 

 their pots, which' arrived of course in pieces and shards . The plants 

 had not suffered too rauch and stand healthy in my garden«. Mam. . macro- 

 J&§Tis» Nuttallil , jcsOcarata, besides others t which meant much to me,. 

 grow happily, M. calcarata is closely related to cornifera ,. and Stands 

 thus quite correctly in my work (p.20). Ech. texensis is also qulte 

 well!, and, with exception of Op.camanchlca t all the others, namely 

 tortispina , fillpendula , Raf inesquii , grandiflora , . fusif ormis , are - 

 narla, and Whipple! are alive; unf ortunately very small.. 



I spent my entire time and effort on the genus Opuntla » and: n 

 wish, that you in St. Louis would posess a very similar collection 

 as mine. • Should anything of my shipment have been lost ??I ask you 

 to communicate this. - Ih the careful revisiorrof my plants I made 

 a number of KSDncRorfcjnr improvements in the earlier Organization- of 

 the Speeles-, and had, after what colonel ! Jacobi said, hoped to see 

 you at my place. I much regretted, that this hope was f rustrated 5 , and 

 ask you 1 urgently to arrange, that in September at the latest, and 

 at the time of the Conference of Natural Scientists in Bonn 1 you 

 will donate a few days to me.. - I have ordered my Opuntiae, that 

 their overview is quite easy*. Of the plants, which I reeeived fronr 

 you (o^ also from Mr. Scheer))I belleve to have found also 0p # . 

 chlorotica» . Ajfew others of your species I could also aecomodate;; 



