178 



THE CACTACEAE. 



form 



Illustrations: Amer 



J 



Hered. 5:, 222. 1914.) 



(See 



Hort. Bailev .^: f. i^A^: Deot. Aen N. S. W. Misc 



Mem 



Pempt. f. 10, II ; Lemaire, Cact. f. 10; Meehan's Monthly 

 I, 2: Monatsschr. Kakteenk. ik: isi; W. Watson, Cact. 



Cult. f. 8, in part; f. 80. 



I 



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Fig 217. — Opuntia ficus-indica, Cordoba. Argentina 



Figure 2 1 7 is from 



. / 



figure 218 represents the fruit, obtained in Bermuda 



m 1913. 



197. Opuntia crassa Haworth, Suppl. Pl.Succ. 8i. 1819 



opuntia parvula Salm-Dyck, Hort. Dyck. 364. ' 

 Opunlia crassa major PfeilTer, Enum. Cact. 153. 

 Opuntia glauca Forbes, Hort. Tour Germ. 158. 



1834. 



1837 

 1837. 



I or 2, 



Plant I to 2 meters high, somewhat bran9hed: joints ovate to ob- 

 long, 8 to 12.5 cm. long, thick, bluish green, glaucous; areoles bearing 

 brown wool and brown glochids; spines wanting or sometimes 

 acicular, 2.5 cm. long or less; flowers and fruit unknown. 



Type locality: Described from cultivated specimens su 

 to have come from Mexico. 



Distribution: Unknown in the wild c;fpff^- inr^aii,. f^ 



^ f 



America 



Haworth, who first described this 

 near O. stricta. 



Pfeiffer (Enum. Cact. 153. 1837) 



Hort 



f 



synonym 



Opuntia pa 



mistake. Salm-Dvck com 



Fig. 218. — Fruit of Opuntia 

 ficus-indica. Xo.66. 



'F 



the species with crassa and O. spinulifera, but says it is thrice smaller than either. 

 Schumann refers O parvula direcUy to O. crassa, which disposition we follow. 



ijigure 219 IS from a photograph of a plant in the Organ Mountains, Rio de Janeiro, 

 Brazil, taken by Paul G. Russell in 19 1 5.' 



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