OPUNTIACEAE 915 
1. A. floridanus Small. Stems and branches diffusely spreading or reclining, 
3-10 m. long, stout, starting as : ipu ibbed plant about as thick as a 
lead- he 
d minen tly 3—5- angl ed, the SAT IE P Echo (I tZ Ey QUT 
mostly 3-angled, dark- -green, oft ten forming DZ Jod WY) 
impenetrable thickets: areolae remote, with : ; Zat— 
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mostly 4-7 pe or Te Desin ae NSS E 
eentral one prre 1-2 lon M ^u /| 
hypanthium stout- trumpet yum. od, 8-10 em. gi alk 
long, with few large se arated tubercled i 7» «d 
arce at the base, the areolae at the base 
he hypanthium beari —) di- 
verging spines, those on the tubular Pos 
usually with one spine each: ealyx gre 
Bl. -tinged; sepals deltoid to trian ane 
eres lane eae ae m almost 
i longer a 
linear, 3.5 E 
minat g em. i 5 t 
petals broadly d 3.5—4.5 em. long, eres six times as long as wide, broadly 
aeuminate: filam adnate more P half way up from the P of the 
hypanthium: ie less than 2.5 mm. long: berry ovoid, 4—6.5 cm. long, sear- 
a shining. [ ntagonus (Fl. SE. U. S. )l|—(Dirpor. Ba ARBED-WIRE CAC- 
A. pe 
us.)—Hammocks, along or near the coast, S pen. Fla., and the Keys.—Sum. 
9. HARRISIA Britton. Succulent shrubs, with fluted stems and branches, 
the hie LAE ng areolae each of whieh supports a tuft of spines, the 
of e reola arising pu ow the daa vi ool and varying greatly in 
a Sun cce Flowers nocturnal, showy, arising from the upper 
side of an areola. Hypanthium n ovr p nelform or clavate, scaly. 
Sepals colored. Petals white, narrow. "Ber globose or ovoid-globose, with 
few seale-bases, often with tufts of hairs. Pede very numerous.—About 18 
species, distributed from Florida to Argentina.—Spr.—PRICKLY-APPLES. 
Flower-buds brown-hairy: scales of the hypanthium with tufts o brown hairs in 
their axils: berry yellow . H. Abor pe 
Flower-buds pul "hairy: scales ee the ae with tufts 
of white ha thei : berry red. 
Hypanthium Sr OmuHentls deed the pales turgid at the 
base: berry depressed-globose. 2. H. Simpsonii. 
Hypanthium even or prance ridged, the scales flat or nearly 
: berry obovoid. 3. H. fragrans. 
boriginum Small. Plants 6 m. tall or less, usually forming dense 
thickets, terrestrial, the stems erect or more or less reclining, UN or some 
of them usually branched, 9-11-r 
ue 7-9 in iis n very ender the Z Y / 
truding from beneath them: seales on the 
tubular part of the pasa, distant b 
laneeolate, turgid, eaeh with short brown 
