OPUNTIA. 



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Type locality: Bill Williams 

 Distribution: Southern Nev 



Lower 



Amer. Eth 



Hornaday, Camp-fires on Desert and Lava, facing p. 154; J 

 i; Pac. R. Rep. 4 : pi. 19; Plant World 11^" : f. 10. 

 jure 69 is from a photograph by Dr. MacDougal of a plant 

 a Mountains. Arizona; figure 70 is copied from the Pacific 



cited. 



ciribe Engel 



1S96. 



One meter high or less,' with numerous stout branches densely armed ; ultimate joints 4 to 5 cm. 

 in diameter, strongly and regularly tubcrculate, 3 cm. in diameter; tubercles about as long as broad 



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Fig. 69. — Opuntia bigelovii 



Fig. 70. — Opuntia bigelovii. Xo.66. 



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♦• f ptn lone covered with loose yellow sheaths, 

 (5 to 7 cm. broad) t larger spines 4 t°.^' f ^^^^^f^^.U^ids numerous; flowers yellow; ovary some- 

 accompanied by several bnstle-hke spmes or ^^''^^ ; si"*-" 

 what bristly; fruit strongly tuberculate, 3 to 4 cm. long, spmeiess. 



J T f^ n^rtliward to beyond Rosario, Lower CaUfornia. 

 Type locality: Comondu and Loreto northwara to De>oi 



Distribution: Central Lower California. ^^^^^ ^^^ 



Opuntia ciribe is near 0. bigelovii, but differs from it in nav ^ 



globular, slightly different fruits. collected by Dr. Rose at the head of Con- 



Figure 71 is from a photograph of a plant ^ohectea y ^^^^ 



cepcion Bay. Lower California ; figure 72 is from a drawing ot a joint 



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