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In spite of its troublesome glochids, which easily 

 long been a greenhouse favorite. No cactus collection, 

 pots of this species, which rarely grows large in cultivation. 



Opuntia microdasys is usually credited to Lehmann, ' 

 as Cactus microdasys. and this is the wav it is cited in tl 



however 



Lehmann 



soon republished this species (Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. i6: 317) where it appears as Cactus 



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{Op 



name of Op 



however, republishes Lehmann 



synonymy. Pfeiffer in 1837, 



Op 



the 



binomial. Here 



ited to Mexico, although Lehmann stated 

 definitely that it comes from Brazil; this he 

 does also with regard to Opuntia tunicata and 

 Cactus bradypus, both Mexican species, while 



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Fig. 150. — Opuntia microdasys 



Fig. 151.— Opuntia, probable hybrid 



Mexico 



this Opuntia reallv came 



known only from South Ameri 

 might very well be the same 



Opuntia inamoena. 



Opuntia puberula 



p liber 24 1 a 



AS shown above (p. 11b), Opuntia puoerma ib icicii^v. .^^. ^^^..^^^^ ^ . 



of our gardens, however, is quite a different plant, and m aU probab.hty ,s of hjbnd o„g,„. 

 Tf 4c oi^^.^ :^ ' .:^„i ...zlu A..u^A K.fw.Pti O microdasvs and 0. cantabngtensts which Dr. 





almost 



Rose collected in Hidalgo, Mexico, 

 Washington and in the New York B 



Illustrations: Apt. Gaz. N. S. W 



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H. I<loyd in Zacatecas, Mexico 



tits of the plant grown in a garde 

 Figure 1 50 is from a photograph 



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