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Why that thing remains so diminutive, I cannot und er stand. 

 Arizona is now aceessible by railroad and is being travelled by bota- 

 nists, so that these ltems can be had easler in the future. Since this 

 Spring a rail goes fron St. Louis directly there and on to Califor- 

 nia, which opens the most interesting areas for cacti. I have seen 

 Oer. .crifranteus by the thousands, but, unf o^tn/^a tely, it was too late 

 f 0 r seeds, I will get for you. an Anrava e ^rirginica , it is not rare 

 rear St. Louis 



The Opuntia seeds you sent along are very stränge and I shall 

 study thera carefully next xnnter. In. any ca.se, some show that there 

 are forms which I did not know until now, and that one may not cre- 

 ate Systems based on limited resources of Observation. I must have 

 told you before, that a hal£ ,-ripe fruit of geirescia subulata , 

 received from Palermo, is def initively an Opuntia. I believe, that 

 others have already called it Ouuntia subulata , b^ sed on. a few cer - 

 tain Symptoms. 



Of Cereus setispinus I have only that one specimem I had hoped, 

 that you could nropagate yours. 



I send you at the same time a small package with some small spe- 

 ciraens of Eoh inoc actus S irap s oni , wh j c h he^e around rae,and in part with- 

 in the small tovms is common. You. find also seeds of it in the pack- 

 age« It grows on granite rubble and gravel in old moraines with very 

 rieh, black, fertile soil between the gravel, and will demand so-eal- 

 led heath-earth between granite-gravel. I also found one, which was 

 flowering by accident, the fruit had fallen off. The flowers. of those 

 that bear : p ruit are 3 - ^ '* in dianeter . Ve are here at 8, 500 1 ele- 

 vation, the air is dry, very cold in Winter, with deep snow, with out" 

 creating much wetness. I f therefor f do not krow,how to cultivate these 

 plant s in the best way. 



Now good-bye to these alti tudes, where besides the Echirocactus 



