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That, ho^ever, this cha^ar ter is ^ot of generic inportanoe , I be~ 

 lieve completely as do yoü. 



With Mhalonium the ovarium is not only not immer sumvbut Stands, 

 as I have shown on top of the young nammilla. The same is the case 

 with the Echinocacti theloldei and probably with Ham . micromeri s , 

 when properly seen. I miself had only thin specimens of this plant 

 for examination.and had for this reason ,as you see for the Boundary 

 cacti» ,leave these questions undecided. I should remark here, that 

 I had occasion to examine a Ech . theloi deus (E. Simpson! ) , the most 

 northern as it grows feto Utah and Colorado, in flower; I x has much 

 similarity in flower with Agfaeloniira . showing only spines but lacking 

 the tuft - but the tuft does>- ot have the minutest importance ^or 

 me, which you attribute to it; it is a secondary apt>ea^ance; "ore 

 or less hair on the areole, more or less compressed in the flower- 

 Ivo- areoles.-vthat is all I - Now this E. Sinpsoni , which without 

 flower looks almost entirely like a Mamfollaria , and seeds like M 

 micromeris ,and seeds and fruit like the sharp-edged.no less than 

 warty Ech . intertextus (Boundary Hep) t Thus converge here (just like 

 above dif ferently f ormed Gerei ) various appearing Echinocacti ! I 

 With me the sectiorr i thaloidei has no value any more t 



What you say about V^Way^ofU^ is most intersting for me,and 

 without doubt correct..Ard now, should not our H. nlcromeris be - 

 long just as well to Anhalo niumi as t o Peteo^pbo res/« - 1 h - e neculiarity 

 of t^e srin.es would only call for a section of the gerus. If the 

 fruit were di^ferent,! would null it to the gtbovenaned' genus 

 Ec hinoc actus, to which points also the shäpe^o^ the seeds - thus, 

 again an interim form. In the meantime, thus, to Anhalo^ium_ ,if 



Anhalonlum it remains a } 1 a. mN^i 1 1 a . ~ i a , - u i o h I do not doubt any 

 further. \ 



So, you studied A. snlcatum and cultivated it vour seif , and thus 

 you know, that it is quite different fron my f issuratum ! I would 



