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I enclose in this letter seeds of 2 Bchinocacti from the North of 

 the California peninsula, just received, south of our bonrdary; the 

 one is a ne^ one, which I nane a^ter the irdustrious oolleotor 

 E« Orcuttli, with a fleshy fruit and seeds, which often crerninate al- 

 ready in the fruit; the other is my old B« cylindraceus . which I doubted 

 a lo^ff time, because, as I believe, often young Wislizeni are passed 

 off for it; how they are positioned with. C alif ornicus raust be shown 

 later. Does Calif ornicus exist in collections ? Both the above are 

 at first round, but become cylindrical later and several foot high. 

 All these belong, however, with Wislizenus into one ^rou.p,and Emoryi , 

 which is still doubtful for ne , belongs there too; sorae, like Wislize - 

 ni have the bristle-like giant spines, others, like Knoryi and. cylirt - 

 draceus don't have them; virldescens belongs also here . 

 A^d now fa^e well and write industri onsly, Your 



G . En^celnann 



I send sketches of marginatus . 1 can not find sreonetricans . I 

 will thirk of lonpristus 



$^may-be sone seeds have become nixed up,but they can be easily 

 dif ferentiated* 



( translated fron German Script by Edgar Denison, Peb. 1988) 



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