St. Louis, Mo July 2S,l8?7 



Dear Dr. Weber 



I have two letters fron you, wb. ich need auswering, but have not 

 beer able to get to it. But, now cones tbe London Gardener* s Chronicle, 

 g p-Qr^en nagazine, in wMch Baker be^an se^eral nonths ago a revue of 

 Aßravae. There I find pg 40, issue of July 1> Agave scolynus mentio - 

 ned, and, to ray surprise, A. Verschaf f eltii is quoted as synonym, 

 Sander' s Refun-iura botanicura V.2 t.328, which I possess, is given as re- 

 ference. Now, I have a photograph by G, Thune t of Antibes of scolynus - 

 unfortunately orly the uprlsing but not yet flowering branches; But, 

 I do have dried flower and fruit of the same plant fron Antibes. Fron 

 this seens to emerge, that nuch confusion is abroad. The scolynus Hort. 

 Thurot is different fron the one illustrated by Sauder, and again dlf- 

 ferent from your Verschaff e ltii . However the illustration of Saunders 

 approaches the inflorescense of your Versch,How the one of Thuct was, 

 I unfortunately do not know. - Such, all kinds of interesting questions 

 arise.- Can f t you dry an e^tire branoh o^ Verschaff eltii and other A^a- 

 vae for me,and if too thick, to split then lengthxd.se. as the late Thür et 

 se^t then to ne ? and then Single flowers splifopen. 



I now go through your letter. First however, that Baker re - 

 gards A. Poselgrei (Lechuquilla) and a. heterocantha as different Speeles. 

 That may be true,but the f Towers reeeived fron Munich of the latter 

 are completely alike those of the first. I have prospects to get the 

 Lechuquilla fron Rio Grande; I see a small specinen he^e in a gardeir; 

 nore are pronised.- I an sorry, that I can't send you Opuntia Davisii 

 fron West-Texas; 1t grows quite nicely for ne but never bloons, sane as 

 frutescens . I wrote for the latter to San Antonio (if night- flowering, 

 as you believe - or rather a permanent flower) , but did not reeeive an 

 a^swer. - 



I an rtad, that the plants arrived so well - as the cost was reaso- 

 nable - you say nothinn- ab out this - 



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