288 Vermischte neue Diagnosen. 
361. Cactus Maxonii Rose in Smiths. Misc. Coll., L (1907), p. 63, pl. VI. 
Plant body simple, deep green, broadly cone-shaped or short-cylin- 
drical, 10 to 15 cm high; cephalium rather small, consisting of a. mass 
of white wool and brown bristles; ribs 11 to 15, rather broad, either 
mottled or plain; spines generally 9, rarely only 8 or sometimes with 
several smaller ones making 11 in all, the central one (rarely 2) short, 
standing nearly at right angles to the rib, 1,5 to 2 cm long; radial 
spines spreading or even recurved, pale red or rose-colored with a 
whitish bloom, but when old colored amber; flowers small, rose-colored; 
fruit narrowly oblong or club-shaped, red, resembling that of Mamillaria; 
seeds blaek, shining. 
Collected in Guatemala near El Rancho by W. R. Maxon in 1905 
(no. 3766, type) and near Salama, January 22, 1905 (no. 3378); also 
collected in Guatemala by Prof. W. A. Kellerman. The description is 
drawn up from living plants in Washington. 
Perhaps nearest C. neryi but with more ribs, with a smaller cepha- 
lium, and with the spines almost always 9. 
362. Valeriana baltica Pleijel in Bot. Not., 1907, p. 269, c. » fig. 
Syn.: V. officinalis L. 8 simplicifolia Ledebour. 
Icones plantarum ete. Floram  Rossicam ilastrantek: inb. ER 
(1829—34), Hartman, Handbok i Skandinaviens Flora, ed. XI, p. 63 
(1879), (non V. sambucifolia Mik. var. simplicifolia Ledeb. in F. W. C. 
Areschoug. Skánes Flora, ed. I, p. 19 (1866) et ed. Il, p. 49 (1881), 
neque in Hartman, Skand. Flora, ed. X, p. 36 (1870). 
V. officinalis L. var. integrifolia, Ledebour, in Flor. Rossic., vol. II, 
p. 439 (1842—53), N. J. Andersson, in sched. (Herb. Sthlm.) (1856), 
M. G. Sjóstrand, in Calmar Lëns och Ölands Flora (ut f. c.), p. 17 
(1863), N. J. Scheutz in Hartman, Handbok i Skand. Flora, ed. VIII, 
p. 34 (1861), ed. IX, p. 29 (1864). 3 
V. excelsa Poir. * integrifolia Ledeb., in Neuman € Ahlfvengren, 
Sveriges Flora, p. 101 (1901). 
Icon.: Ledebour, L c., Flora Danica, suppl. tab. 121. 
Exs.: H. N., f. 16, no. 18. 
Valeriana ex affinitate Val. officin., perennis, sine stolonibus. Folia 
opposita, integra — irregulariter dentata, vel serrata, basalia et inferiora 
longepetiolata, ovata, obtusa, superiora + lanceolata, breviter petio- 
lata — sessilia. Corollae tubi pars inferior cylindrica calycem non 
excedens. ° 
Inflorescentia Valerianae officinalis, sed magis contracta, interdum 
subcapitata. Fructus subfuscus, 3—4 mm, cum pappo 7—8 mm longus, 
e basi subtereti apicem versus leviter attenuatus, 
Hab. Suecia, in ripa orientali insulae Lucernan, prope oppidum 
Westerwik. — Livonia? 
