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and to determlne them« Und I have been convineed a long tine, that 

 thereby f lower and fruit are of upmost inportance . I give ever less 

 weight to the Organs of Vegetation, the longer I study these plant s., 

 Be on a:uard setting up new species if you can find old ones,,if you 

 can connect your plant; considering what you know in general about the 

 variability of thi s plant, even if not everything fits exactly», 

 Should not M. Jpzvtfacoylfpo^/ and " lea autres^spicies voisins" 

 and also your St .LUCS' Potosi plant belong all together. Instead of 

 setting up a new species, you would gain the nerit of jointng seve- 

 ral unte^ahle wanden vari eti es, and , thus, brin^r then closer to our 

 systematic of Natura« 



Your nane " edullssimus" is not botanical and must be changed; 

 may-be satnda. or dellciosus . 



You are very kind to offer me seeds and young plants, For the 

 f irst and for fruit I am nost thankfnl; hey are valuable for studies 

 for ne; butt I cannot cultivate plants, as I told you atrready. By the 

 way, I shall cone myself to Europe during the Summer, and even if I 

 cannot look you up myself,! will without doubt visit Strasburg and 

 r aris a^d to see your thir.gs there a^d nav be able to confer with you«. 

 Sone f e w Schin.ooeri i , which I cultivated here.you shall cladly have, 

 and I e^closed seeds o^ sone which get into the s out hwe Stern United 

 States. which ßrive me mic>. nleasnre to share with you;e.g. such of 

 Ger eus g-jgarteus « I nyself sowed sone o^ vour seeds a^d a few gerni- 

 nated,but perished due to lack of further care. 



That you found M.macromeris there in the lowlands, is stränge 

 erough; thus»it has a wider distributionn than these plants have com- 

 nonly; though I have already seen plants p # Nuttalll from Rfco Grande.. 



Did you gather also herbariura specimens , f Towers, fruits, 

 spine-bundles, or, even better, entire sections of plants, and what 

 has happened to then ? 



Still nore: Adnonish your friends,who cultivate your original 



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