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By the way, as I said al^eady above , the Bchinoca.ctl theloldei 

 do rot please ne at all, and the very olose relationship of my 

 E. intertextus and £• SVv^pSoou force rae to let go of this group 

 which is based only on appearance. 



1 believe, I spoke earlier about the inadmlssibility of the ex- 

 pression "Inf loresence axillaire** , I would not like to see it used. 

 Axillar y in botany Staads for: emerging fron the leaf axil , and the 

 axillae of the Mami llariae are not leaf =axils. - That is the nroblem 

 with describers of cacti, that they are not botanists f and both f t 1 ^ere- 

 fore, do not unterstand each other, 



I won*t accept your assurance, that you want to play safe behind 

 my authority (abritez derniere votre rom) . You do too little honor 

 to your seif and too rauch to ne« It's not authority but correct Obser- 

 vation of Nature, which counts,and which rmst be your support. As I 



authority 



told you already, I have learned to mistrust everywhere in my Stu- 

 die s,but sneoially so in the cacti, 



If the cacti were not "^tikitte 7 " in flexi co , as you call it,then 

 there is no danger to trust wrong labels, which is a danger for every- 

 body even with the best of collections, D esides, you are rlght to 

 consider the necessity to pay attention to the historical part, which 

 has happened so far; even thoupch the authority of the predecessors 

 must not lead to contradicti on, we nust ho^ever always know and give 



credit , what they have accomnli shed . As mentioned above.it is thus 



retracted 



not permissible to cha^ere your nane. Thus, I have/my name Man , 

 given 



a~onlanata \ in fcncertainty innocen^e.in order to place the older 



M. Heyderi « As you conbine se Tr eral nominal Speeles, the oldest ^ane 

 of the species must renain, even if not entlrely fitting or descrlp- 

 tive. 



What you say about varia tions pleases me much - this f orees you 

 to search for the limits and characteristlcs of the true Speeles 



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