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I received frora the same industrious col l ;ctor recently several yowng 

 Agave Wislizeni , which he found frequently in West Texas« Of these 

 you shall have one.- Bo you also want young ones of si Solana and. 

 ri,<?ida and a med iura form, which were sent to me recertly from South 

 Florida. This correspondent in. West Texas is a military doctor, who 

 is stationed there at various boundary posts and frequently travels 

 throusrh the wilderness with exredi txons. - A. Dr. Ha^Rrd, a born 

 Frenchman, if I am not mi staken» 



In the Fall I will send you these itens, as well as Op « miss ou- 

 rler sis . Do you have fron me Ou. Davisii , which I cultivatecisuch a 

 lon.fr time,and which nobody has ever provided fo~ me in flower or fruit ! 



I can also send you ny ü£. ruf i da (closely related to microdasys ) 

 Op - basllaris, 0. fragills , O. Utahensis, O .r u tila ( probably a red- 

 f l owering forrn of Mi ssourlensi s ) . How ? The postal Service accepts 

 larger packages as Packe t-express, which also is not expensive. That 

 is supposed to begin later.but in. üc tober. 



With the thine-s, which Parry sent then were also the two (only ?) 

 specimens of Echin.ocerei , which grow in the interior of Texas. As the 

 flower s had never beer described and the plant s poor,I had difficulty 

 to deternine them. But, I believe to he certain now, that the one is 

 Cereus cl^e y scens DG, the other C. acifer . The first is nuch eaten 

 (i.e. the fruit) und er the name Alicoche, in Sau Luis, and has violet 

 or rose-eolored flowers f which are open only during the day; the other 

 has red flowers, always open and no edible fruits. My Cer . stanineus 

 may be the same as the first; it seems to be equally common near 

 Sellillo,Panas etc, anA also near Mexico. I enclose here an old (18?8) 

 fruit, and may-be the seed will still germinate, but, I believe, that 

 the plant is often in cultivation. . 



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