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OPUNTIA. 



57 



anthocarp 



1S56. 



Much 



angle with the trunk; terminal joints 4 to 8 cm. long, strongly tuberculate; tubercles elongated, 

 flattened laterally; spines 8 to 25, acicular, dark brown, covered with thin and lighter colored sheaths, 



2 to 3 cm. long; glochids numerous, yellow; flowers large, red to yellow, 5 cm. long, and when fully 

 open nearly as broad; ovary rather short, turbinate, with few prominent tubercles; fruit dry, about 



3 cm, long, naked below, tuberculate above, each tubercle crowned by a cluster of 10 to 12 stout 

 spines; umbiHcus broad and somewhat depressed; seeds 5 to 6 cm. broad, sharply angular. 



Type locality: On the 

 Santa Fe, New Mexico. 



mountains of Cactus Pass, Arizona, about 500 



Distribution: Arizona and California 



Illustrations: 



Amer 



Figure 67 is from a photograph by Dr. MacDougal 

 >on Mountains, Arizona. 



Dpuntia parryi Engelmann, Amer. Journ. Sci. II. 14: 339. 



1852. 



Opuntia bernardina Engelmann in Parish, Bull. Torr. Club 19: 92. 1892. 



Low and bush-like, 2 to 4 dm. high; joints cylindric, 7 to 30 cm. long by 1.5 to 2 cm. in diameter, 

 strongly tuberculate; tubercles i to 1.5 cm. long; areoles rather large, beanng hght-brown wool, 

 yellow glochids, and spines; spines about 10, dark brown, the longer ones 3 cm. long, covered with 

 loose sheaths; flowers, several near together at ends of branches, 4 cm. long; sepals greenish or dull 

 red ; petals yellow, obtuse ; stigma-lobes cream-colored ; ovary tuberculate ; fruit dry, oyoid, 2 cm. long, 

 strongly umbilicate, when mature and fertile plump, otherwise more or less tuberculate ; areoles on 



fruit 



white, 4 to 6 mm. broad, beaked, the margins channeled. 



Type I 

 Mountains 



Near San Felipe, eastern slope of California Mountams— 



Jacinto 



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Distribution: Interior val 

 This is common in some 



determined. It was first collected by Dr. C. C. Parry 



?5i and named for him by Dr. Engelmann in 1852; but when the latter agam to( 

 name a few years later, he associated it witli.,a very different species, which most 



Opuntia pa 



Engel 



named 0. bernardina, including therein Parry s specimen 



was not published until after his death. 



We 



parryi, while the 0. parryi of most collections becomes U. pa 



We 



Mr 



Mr. Orcutt thinks that this species is near 0. scrpcntt 



srs, different spines, much less spiny fruit, a 



Opuntia bernardina cristata Schumann (M 



Kakteenk. 12: '20. 1902), an 



abnormal form 



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from a plant collected by W 



ing a leafy joint. 



echinocarpa K 



1856. 



opuntia echinocarpa major Engelmann Proc. Amer. Acad 3 : 305^ 1856^ 

 opuntia echinocarpa nuda Coulter, Contr U. S Nat^He^b^3- 446- ^»9 

 qUnHa echinocarpa Parkeri Canity, Cor^^^^^^ 3 ?^^^, 



Opuntta echinocarpa paraert ^"u^^'=/. rZtr Jl^ Nat Herb. 3: 446. 

 opuntia echinocarpa robusttor Coulter. Contr. U ^_^f-/^''\°^,l ^^ 

 oluntia deserta Griffiths. Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 23 • 132- I9i3. 



1896. 



upuntia aeserta orxmxns. xv.u.. ..^... ■ ^^^ spreading, with 



Plant usually low, but some imes ^ - ^'^''^^l^^;^^^^ smooth bark; joints short, turgid, 



a short woody trunk 2 to 3 cm. m diameter '"^f^ rri^ht yellow, when older brownish, or in age 

 strongly tuberculate; spines numerous, when J^^f.^ J^ngm y , ^ ^^^^^ 



grayish, unequally covered with thin PaP^ry sheaths .flowers yellow isn, ^ j^ ^ ^^y 



withred;ovlryshort, turbinate, densely spmy especially m the upper pari. >. 



._, ovary 



seeds somewhat angular, 4 mm. broaa. 



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