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small ones around It, they do becone apparent with mature plant s. 



^" es > £• calif . Sc E. Emoryl look very rauch alike and the color of 

 the flower should not make any difference« 



Seitz d id a lot of prevaricating when I was in P^agfcutbut had fine 

 items. e.g. I saw there Teleryphon flowers f which I consider an Anj^ @ y 

 1. o^lum (conpare A. fissuratum !)• 



Of M. phellosp .I have already talked to you,a^d I must keep the 



seed of which I received only a few grains in. 1853. I have however 



found a fruit of Op . arborescens frora 187^, which I send you* Flower lar- 



ger and fuller than the wellknown mexicanus , growing in millions in 

 on the Arkan sa s 



southern Coloradol My Op . Wrlghtll is probably = Kleiniae - also from 

 northern-most Mexico, I would like very much seeds of Qp . Salmiana ; it 

 ofte 1 ^ has fruit but I never found. seeds in. them. Is it really a oylin- 

 drical Opuntia ? The eblorrof the flower is abnormal. We don f t have it 

 here. May-be I will give you sometimes a Ii st of items, whi ch I would 

 like to have. 



And now to the Agavae. I already spoke about description of the 

 flower above. When only dried snecimens are available, one is bound to 

 make mi stake s frquently, 9s the parts shrink and cannot be entirely 

 sof tered; therefore I now declare always, if the description of the flower 

 was taken from fresh or dried. specfcmens. A^ave Shawii will give me the 

 ojjSrtunity, to give a plate f lower Illustration in your dissertation, 

 these are Agryophilae. a.rd flower description will be of iraportance.- 

 Prom specimens shipped by you of Verschaff eltii I give the following 

 description. after drawing them, which you may compare this year with 

 f^es^ flowers * 



Ovarium (always of dlfferent length) 26, neck 5 mm= Jl mm. Tube to 

 base of the pistil to the insertion of the stamens 10§, from there to 

 the rim 5|, together 16 mm, lobes 17-18 mm, flower with out ovar. 34 mm, 

 stamens 6 mm lon^rer than crown-lobes, plstil 15 mm longer than. crown- 

 lohes, an t her 21 mm long« 



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