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where in the ut>ner reaches of the Arkansas I saw raany Cacti , ve^y 



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oppulent , specially Bchinocereus phoer.ic >, pconacanthus a^d. others , 



and most of all In glory and «rreat quantities the Opuntia arbores - 

 cens (= inbricata ?) . 



Also Ech . Simnsoni , which you , as Pfarsdorff erröte to ne then f 

 doubted, cane even further North and hipth in the nountains ( p , 500 f ) 

 where in Au^u^t- September snow feil already, coFron. I bronprht na- 

 ny along, but they do not like our hot, hunid clinate. 



Do you remember a strande Opuntia f->"on the Galana^os Is - 

 lands,which we found in the rauseum of the Jardin des Plants,with 

 very f ine and lonn- spines . When Prof. Agassiz,who now is unfortu - 

 nately de ad, made a trip (of 4 years) around America, I admonished 

 him to observe these Islands for caeti. He sent me 3 fron the^e, 

 this one and another Opuntia and a Cereus (nay-be nultann-ulari s ) , 

 the first two are still alive. He also sent ne other cacti from 

 various places,e.g. fron the southern tip of the peninsula of Ca- 

 lifornia. 



And now, let ne hea.r soor from you about your health and 

 your activities and further about your family. The last lines an- 

 nouced that you had just been marrled« 



With heartv greetlngs Your 

 Dr. G. Emrelmann 



Does Guedray still live ? Has the war caused you suffering ? 

 £translated. fron German script by Edgar Denison, Feb. 1988) 



