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all notehed B ie rather thin-edged and erisped, contracted at the 
base: anthe 9-3 mm. long: berry pyriform, varying to obov is or nearly 
a rS em. den ng, purple, the umbilicus somewhat depressed: seeds 
ous, 3-4 mm. in diameter, very turgid.—Pinelands especially about old 
orate and homesteads, pen. Fla. Nat. of Tex. and "Me 
23. O. stricta Haw. Plant erect, but po diffusely much- gue 1-3 
m. tall: joints eA re ies obovate, rather thick, mostly 1- 
ong, somewh iat glau ? leaves ahaa, mostly 5-7 mm. C 207 
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e 
1 dm. wide; petals mostly 8-10, the outer cuneate-obovate, the inner obovate, 
BUM p oe about 2.5 mm. long: berry pyriform or obovoid- 
e, 5-7.5 ong, purple, the AE ue seeds rather r numerous, 
L5 Er em. in eee flattish.—Shell mounds, kitchenmiddens, ae riginal 
village sites, Fla. and S E Ga.—(F. 1)—Th is ad es, ext follow species 
are two of the prickly-pears the early Spanish records tell us the PRS 
feasted on = three months of each year and also cured, like figs, for food when 
out of seaso 
24. O. Bentonii Griffiths. px i. but ultimately diffusely or widely 
branehed, mostly less than 1 m. tall, t tuberous: joints broadly spatulate, 
i thi e stly 
ht : le S 
spre eadin ng, braight or a urved, no mpanied by zac. and onl 
obscurely bus the base: sreclae rather voe cnt r more numerous 
ee the edges m n on the faces of the e joints, few of the upper marginal ones 
or joints individually Ban. spines slender, solitary, or 2 or 3 to- 
m er and sometimes with several shorter ones, pale-yellow, at maturity deeper- 
arly 
e ong, glaucous: sepals green, DT e the center and the tips, the 
outer broadly ovate "delto; , 5-10 m mm. de aeute, the nce renifor rm 
or 
| de d i 
middle: seeds numerous, in meter, ' slightly peice une ux thi a 
margined.—Pinelands and n du on near the coast, N Fla. o Tex. 
O. tunoidea Gibbes. Plant Mr but ultimately diffusely and widely 
bra nched, 2 m. tall or less, the ts not tuberous: joints broadly spatulate, 
Oboe ‘elliptic. or oval mostly 13 dm. long, thiek or pir pas thinnish, 
bright-green and mo m glaucous: leave es stout-subulate dn Bu . long o 
rarely longer, eed straight or m LR recurved, not accom um ied by 
o 
whe 
1-3 em. long, st er Or peus curved: pee rS Rr ry 0 r few on E E. int, 
Ho: hypanthium short-turbinate or er; as coals green, the outer 
