3003 Locust Str. 



St. Louis 



August 3, 18? 5 



My dear Dr. Weber 



I have not written to you for a long time and have not 

 heard from you in a long time. I was very sad receiving several 

 times the news some time back, that you had perished. in the war, 

 and am delighted that it proved to be in error. 



I occupied rayseif here and there with cacti, and could, if 

 only I could get to it, publish a strong addition to my prior 

 labours; but much too rauch remains to be studiecl j t while, as you 

 krow best, we can work only with fragnents, 



I have gathered a lot of seeds for you,hoping, that you 

 would still be interested, enclose howeVer today those, which I have 

 received- frora San Dies-o and the southern tlp of the State California. 

 Hopefully a lot raore nice material will come from there, now, that 

 I have a c orre spondend • 



The one is the old Mamillaria Goodridcre Scheer, which 

 seems to be frequent there. I took the fruit from a living plant sent 

 to me by mail. This species and MV Grahami are very close. 



The other large seed is from my Opuntia prollf era , but, 

 therefore the seeds seem to be spoiled and not able to germinate 

 from a spoiled fruit. They were unknown to me, conf irming anew the 

 Strange character of the seeds of Qnuntia cyllndrica , and at the 

 same time different from all known to me; I believe they are also 

 the large st of the cylindrical Opuntias. They are stränge also be- 

 cause the funiculus is also woody, and still visible on many seeds 

 I am sending this through Pfersdorff, of whom I have 

 heard nothing for years, hoping , that both of you rare alive 

 abd happy, and will ans wer me soon. 



Last Fall I fetaved ' several. inonths in the Rocky Mountains 



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