St* Louis, Mo. June 11, 1880 



My dear Dr. Weber 



After receiving your letter of Anril 5 I waited in vain for 

 a continuation. You were probably too rauch involved In your movingw 

 Nöw I write you, to teil you, that finally I am going to California, 

 and that I will there in Arizona, which can be reached from Ca- 



lifornia by railraod, Finally get into the land of the cacti and Aga - 

 vae. It is urderstood , that I shall also think of you. In the nean - 

 tirae I received"' from the calif ornian desert specimens of the up to 

 now mysterious Opuntia Bigelonii » a very stränge plant, and a new 

 M amillaria , wh ich is very close to vivipara , M. deserti , both to be 

 described in the papers of the California Flora.. 



Further, I received a f 1 owering- size Ag. Victoriae Regiae 

 and old flower staraens and fruits. Little of seeds there, of which 

 I enclose some« I, now, could give a füll description, which you" 

 will find in the ^ext Garden Chro^icle.The flowers very tight in 

 tbrees- - otherwise a genuine Littaea or geminlf lora (but this tine 

 tenuiflora t ) 



With the items from Monterey was also M amillaria nicroneris , 



and it flowers here and pushed off it's red fruits of the previous 



year, of which I enclose sone for you. Cultivate them !.I sacrif iced 



one specimen and found, that the flower arises from the tip of the 



^seeds of 



still very small tuberole = Ankolinum Ii also enclose\ the Echinocac- 

 tus brevihaemitus fron Monterey and possibly not different from 

 Scheerii ♦ Several flowers received a year ago from Mexico from San 

 Luisse. g. several Maraillariae with glandajin the axillae ( Aüiac c 

 thejt %%lch stand very close to the Corvphantae 



Both Galapagos Qpuntiae do well here and I will be able to re - 

 place the Galapageia « Do you have Ce^eus pect in ahorigirorun ? 

 Here, all of it has perished,\ as also Palmeri .1 havisaid, that we 



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