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Häyes and Schmidt must have good correspondents ; I called the 



■"»ly to aquaintances, never pub- 

 lizised - and they have already seeds* If it is not the seed, which 

 I sent to botanical Wardens in Europe I 



The label, which I return, says "in market' 1 - sold o^ the mar- 

 ket. I an still so unclear about our and the neighbouring mexican 

 sracti, that I do not want to consider at all those fron Chile or 

 Arger tine« By the way, I did long ago see at Kew the original spe- 

 cimen of Philipp 1 s Eulychnia and examined it, It has been described 

 by him very perf unctory, if not to say wrongly, and belongs to a divi- 

 soin of Cerii, which does not seen to be rare in Southameriea with 

 thiek.long, brown wool in the axils of the sepals» It is certainly 

 not different frort Cereus, but one may retain the name of this sec- 

 tionyif other narks besid.es the wool becone known». 



I an p*lad , that you liked the Or?» clavata ; I have p'lanted it 

 also into the open*, it swells up but makes hardly a small, miserable 

 growth. which however sbcn/s, that the leaflets are extremely small, 

 not a line ( ? E.D* ) long« 



Of all the Cereus Speeles ^rt<LC fylvy^^urb<LfL I have 

 never seen seeds or speeimens* Giganteus I have seen by the thousands, 

 but without flower or fruit (September)* No, keep the speclmens, which 

 you have and take care of thera and. multiply then, we are not equipped 

 here for advanced cultivation oand I know of nobody who would have 

 special fondness for them. If the )o{*&f which you have, is the 

 true one ? Yes, by all raeans send me the seeds of Cereus seruentinus . 

 It flowers here well each year, but does ^ot set fruit, whereas tri - 

 angHl arl s fruits well; also at times C. p^i^eeps (fron the nouth of 

 the Rio Grand e.Matanoros, where there is now yellow fever). Is the 

 name H princeps t> correct ? I illustrated the fruit and seeds in Boundary 

 Cacti und er the wrong name va^i ab! Ii s , 



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