Wh 9t kind of Bchlnocactns may this be, which sent from San Louis 

 did flower here.- about in diameter,3 M high, with 21 strande, bum- 

 py-swollen ribs, grey, with only 2 spines,lar.ge ■ rose-red flower 

 Could it be similar — - 



This o^ly by the way 



My plan is, to determine, as already sa'id, only or nrincipally 

 the cacti of our Flora, but I would like to inoorporate otherwise 

 new, th<bi?oughly- documented and c oraplementar y to what is known up to 

 now. Xour contributions would be given under> your name in f ootnotes; 

 e.g. the sporangia of Cer . repandus . Plumier 1 s narie,being prior to 

 Linnens, would remain unobserved, and wh en Laraarck picked it up, this 

 was post-linnaeic 44 r , lt k (^h Gp^ f4rnd was naned Tineo,not Tinneo. 



De Candolle's Nouvelles Renarqn.es snr la Nonenclature Botänique 

 NR 3, which he sent to nie, and which. von probably know, is based on a 

 f oundation, which -seens* 'nndersta^dable and natural , nanely f that one 

 should not put words in. the mouth of an author, which he did not use, 

 not to have him say anythin*?, which he did .not say, and thus one nnst 

 not bürden him with any Statement, which he did not use; thns one must 

 with Linne e Pereskia , re.^ardless how the museum may have called it, 

 be cause this is how he initiated the genus already in 1735 ( though 

 he later only pulled it to H Cactus H ) Plumier, however, gave the name 

 first. 



How is the inf lorescense of the small Pereskias, which you call 

 Poepr>igii and pygmaea , are they Single seated flowers as with Opuntia; 

 this circums'ance and' the subulate leaves would put them in a section 

 of Opu^tiaceae or subulatae, and separate them from the other Platy - 

 ; _ lae, 



I conld Charter a lom time with you. But if von answer soon,I will 

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