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it happens occasionally straight out of wood-burdles of decapi ta- 

 tet cacti. Dried flowers of this and all cacti are nuch desired, - 



Leuchten bersla remairs best se^arated, the form is too striking» 

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Yes, send ne a desoription , drawing and spe einen (flogen and 

 smnes) of Eoh , calif ornicus . Does it cone perhaps fron Lower California? 

 Bv the way, I reeeive^ just now a*rain a new, so far not described Ech « 

 fr»on the area of San Dien-o, Calif omia f lar^e f and have flower & 

 fruit - thus, all coraplete. I have not yet publizised it. I will 

 s e ^d von seeds as soon as they are ripe. Ca^ it not be determined, 

 where fron B. Calif » eoraes ? I send you by raail a sheet of the new 

 Flora of Calif ornia.whieh contains the cacti by me; in it a Short 

 overview ofthe Classification of the cacti in general. Further an 

 excerpt of Simpson* s expedition to Utah and Nevada, his illustra - 

 tions of Ech , simpsoni with detail s and for Opuntia pul che IIa « The 

 Ech .S t f ^on Colorado is not as tall and oppulent. I saw it 2 years 

 ago in thousandt of speeimens - but the elevation of 8,500 feet 

 is so high, that it seeras, it does not Prosper with us. All I brought 

 along has ■oe r, i shed earlier or later for ne and fTlenä s; however , I 

 did see it flogen well 12 years ap-o in a local ^arden. - Does Qu , 

 mi ssou.rica x Mam . ovipara flower with you ? 



beside» you perhaps krow, that I published a work about our 

 Agavae and sone other, for eiern species ( also one fron San. Doningo). 

 This too I enclose« One described there, A. Shawii does get into 

 blomm here. The photograph will interst you and transpose you into 

 Mexico, I hear »that the plant is already nuch diStributed in Burope. 

 If you have flowering Asravae I ask for dried flowers and Sketches 

 of fresh flowers and the obse^va tions , to which I pointed in my dis- 

 cussion. 



If you do not have seeds of A, Shawii & deserti ,1 can get them 

 to you, - 



You will see frora ny writing, that the best botarists descri- 

 bed the Agava e very badly. That will now r^obably improve»- Did you 



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