FEROCACTUS. 133 
354. f. 335; Gard. Chron. III. 35: 181. f. 76; Engler and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 3%: f. 56, D; 
Strand Mag. 626, 627; Goebel, Pflanz. Schild. 1: f. 47; Forster, Handb. Cact. ed. 2. 208. 
f. 16; Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst. 1903: 500. f. 1; pl. 1, 2; Cact. Mex. Bound. pl. 28; Pac. R. 
Rep. 4: pl. 3, f. 3; Watson, Cact. Cult. ror. f. 34; ed. 3. 52. f. 22, as Echinocactus emoryi; 
Bull. Geol. Surv. 613: pl. 38 A, without name. 
Figure 138 is from a photograph of the plant, taken by F. E. Lloyd in the Quijotoa 
Mountains, Arizona, in 1906; figure 139 is from a photograph taken by Dr. MacDougal 
near Torres, Sonora, in 1903. 
Fics. 138 and 139.—Ferocactus covillei. 
7 13. Ferocactus peninsulae (Weber). 
Echinocactus peninsulae Weber, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 1: 320. 1895. 
Simple, erect, 2.5 meters high, clavate to cylindric; ribs 12 to 20, prominent; areoles 4 cm apart 
or even less in old plants; spines red with yellow tips; radial spines 11, spreading, straight, terete, 
more or less annulate, the lower ones stouter and more colored; central spines 4. 
Type locality: Lower California, but no definite locality cited. 
Distribution: Southern Lower California. . 
Engelmann and Weber seemed to have been in agreement regarding this species being 
new, but Engelmann’s name (Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3: 361. 1896) was based on Gabb S 
specimen (No. 11), now preserved in the Missouri Botanical Garden, while Weber : name 
is based on Diguet’s plant. The plants of these two collections may or may not | € con 
specific. We have seen only Engelmann’s specimen which we have used in making our 
illustration. 
In December 1920, Dr. William 
near Boca de Guadalupe on the west coast o 
here. His plant is less than 10 cm. high with 8 broad ribs; young areoles brown-felted, 
Circular; radial spines spreading, brownish or white; central spines 4, grayish brown, the 
lower one flattened, strongly hooked, annulate; flowers yellow; fruit yellowish, 2.5 cm. 
long, bearing broad rounded scales; seeds 2 mm. long, reticulate. The plant is known as 
) 
S. W. Kew sent us fruit and a small living plant from 
f Lower California which we believe belongs 
