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flores minuti sUpra areolam aouleiforam v Echinocacti instar) 

 in tuberculis ninimis nascentibus orti. 



After havlng written this down, I find a better, shorter diaer- 



nostic of the three sections of Mamillariae 



I. EUM AMILIARIA 



Ad basin tuberculoruri velutiorum ^umquam sulcatorum 

 florigerae ;areöriäe f lorigerae : et aculeigerae disjunctae. 



II CORYPHANTA 



Ad vel versus basinftuberculorum recentium sulcatorum 

 florigerae; areolaeafculeigene et florigene sulco con - 

 junctae. 

 III EPITHELANTHA 



in apice tuberculoruri pastotium recentium florigerae; 

 areolae florigerae aculeigeris acute junctae 



I believe that in this way our plants and the entire genus is 

 most naturally characterized. 



Here I found in the dry plants of the herbariumjkome unknown,what 

 appears to ne to be new t Or have you net sonething of this kind in 

 books or collections ? n 



An. Eni phyllun , well characterized throup-h the flower with tooth- 

 less, obovate sections. 



A Rhi-psalis with broad, coarsely toothed sections, similar to 

 Phyll . an gul i <^en s . Otherwise at the noment nothing new. An a^^ier ad- 

 dressed to Student G. Engelmann, Mittelstrasse l?near Laur ig, Berlin 

 will reach me still lk daysjlater, my address renain s 

 Teacher J. Engelmann, Frankfurt a/M 

 I have heard fron our friend Echinger , he expected ne however and 

 thus did not write. May-be we two could neet once nore in Strassburg 

 (possibly beginnibsr of August).. 



In the meantime let ne hear fron you really soon;greetings 

 to Pfarrsdorff and his Leuchterber.cla or,i^ anything eise, that is spe- 

 cial flowers or sets fruit, think of ne. 



Your G. Edelmann 

 The enclosed seeds I ask to forward really soon with my regards to 



Mr. Guedeney» ^ 

 (translated fron Gern^r) script by Edgar Deni son, Feb 1 88 



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