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Our examination of a painting of this plant in the collection made by Dr. Griffiths 

 showed it to have great similarity to Opuntia nifida. 



Illustration: Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 21: pi, 23. 



Figure 147 is copied from the illustration above 

 cited. 



08. Opuntia treleasei Coulter, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3: 

 434. 1896. 



Opuntia hasilaris treleasei Tourney, Cycl. Amer.Hort. Bailey 



3: 1147. 1901. 

 Opuntia treleasei kernii Griffiths and Hare, N. Mex. Agr. 



Exp. Sta. Bull. 60: 81. 1906. 



Low, sometimes 3 dm. high, spreading at base, some of 

 the branches of 2 to 4 erect joints; joints obovate, 15 cm. long 

 or more, fleshy, pale bluish green, glabrous, terete at base; 

 areoles numerous, filled with dirty yellow glochids, usually 

 without spines, sometimes quite spiny; flowers rose-colored; 

 fruit dry, subglobose, with large areoles filled with glochids 

 and sometimes bearing spines; seeds large, turgid, 7 cm. in 

 diameter. 



Type locality: Caliente, in the Tehachapi Moun- 

 tains, California. * 



Distribution: Southern California. 



Figure 148 is from a photograph of the plant grow- 

 ing on the mesa southeast of Bakersfield, California, 

 taken by Dr. MacDougal in 19 13. 



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basilaris Engelmann 



Acad. 3: 298. 1856. 



Opuntia basilaris ramosa Parish, Bull. Torr. Club 19: 92. 1892. 

 Opuntia intricata Griffiths, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 29: 

 10. 1916. 



Fig. 147. — Opuntia lubrica 







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