St. Louis, Mo, Jan. 15.l8?8 



Dear Doctor 



I have not heard anything fron you since August, and yet, 

 Cactl and Agavae mat^be still growing#*g and flowering ! I myself 

 have done little with it, as all ny activities have been confined to 

 Quercus abd Coni^ers, but I did describe the development of flowers 

 on Agave Shawii and send, you with this mailing a sraall dissertationr 

 about it and a table. At the sarae time I send you seeds of D.Parry, 

 who f se name you will find twice on labels f and who left a few weeks 

 back for Mexico with Dr. Palmer, who is known to you through an A^a- 

 ve,to go fron the city (I assume St. Louis, Ho. E.D.) to San Louis 

 Parras.Chihuahua.and fron, there to the Gulf of California, in order 



to gather plants (live and dried) and seeds. The first fruits of 



this trip I sent you already. Is'nt it Opuntla. -Tuna - . > ,which 

 grows in quantities, forning extensive bushes, on the sand hüls 

 around Vera Cruz ? 



A cactus enthusiast fron New York sent ne a specinen of a Cer- 

 eus , similar to triangulär 1 s , cllnblng , wi th air-roots,large riprht- 

 flower, but less pronounced winged stems and the 3 Short spines a^e 

 bumpy.not situated in the incisions. The plant cones fron Barbados. 

 What can it be ? 



Let ne hear from you really soon and report to ne about the Sta- 

 tus of your studies of Agavae and Cacti, 



I see t that Baker h^s now finlshed his work about Agavae in the 

 Gardener f s Chronicle. Do you know it ? 



Hearty greatings fron Your G. Engelmann 



Inlay - Agave Parryi - New Mexico 1877 



Lilium Farryi -San Bernadino, Calif . (n. spec. ) 1877 

 Yucca filamentosa var bractata S. Carolina 1877 

 Opuntia Tuna ? Veracruz Parry 1877 



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



