FEROCACTUS. 141 
» Echinocactus californicus Monville (Labouret, Monogr. Cact. 199. 1853), first grown 
: from seed supposed to have come from California, but without definite locality, may 
belong here although it has been referred to other species such as F. orcuttii. E. cali- 
) fornicus Hortus is referred here by Riimpler (Forster, Handb. Cact. ed. 2. 472. 1885). 
Illustrations: Gard. Chron. II. 7: 172. f. 26; Cact. Mex. Bound. pl. 29, as Echino- 
cactus viridescens. 
Plate xiv, figure 1, shows a flowering plant sent to the New York Botanical Garden 
from southern California by W. T. Schaller in 1909. Figure 148 is from a photograph of _ 
plants collected by C. R. Orcutt in southern California in 1917. 
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® Fic. 148.—Ferocactus viridescens. 
7 24. Ferocactus johnsonii (Parry). 
Echinocactus johnsonii Parry in Engelmann, Bot. Kings's Surv. 117. 1871. 
Echinocactus johnsonii octocentrus Coulter, Contr. U. 5. Nat. Herb. 3: 374. 1896. ; 
Simple, oblong, 10 to 20 cm. high, up to 11.5 cm. in diameter, often hidden under its mass of 
spines; ribs 17 to 21, low, somewhat tuberculate; spines reddish gray ; radial spines 10 to 14, Pred ‘te 
10 to 20 mm. long; central spines 4 to 8, longer and stouter than the radials, somewhat curved, the 
upper ones connivent, 3.5 to 4 cm. long; flowers deep red to pink, 5 to 6.5 cm. long, sometimes ro 
cm. broad when fully expanded; inner perianth-segments oblong to spatulate, obtuse; ovary ear 
ing a few broad, scarious, fimbriate, margined scales; fruit oblong, 10 to 15 cm. long, nearly naked, 
seeds finely reticulated. 
T ity: , Utah. 
Deuwtaton. Nothnestena, ‘Arizona, eastern California, western Utah, and southern 
Nevada. . 
This species was named for Joseph Ellis Johnson (181 7-1882), an amateur botanist 
St. George, Utah, who, according to Professor Vasco M. Tanner, was once awarded a go 
medal for having the best garden in the state of Utah. 
Illustrations: Forster, Handb. Cact. ed. 2. 558. f. 71; Schelle, Handb. Kakteenk. 202- 
f. 134; Cact. Journ. 1: pl. 5; Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 7: 53; Gartenflora 32: 58, as £chinocacius 
johnsonit. 
Figure 149 (single plants in foreground) is from a photograph taken by M. E. Jones 
at Searchlight, Nevada, April 1907. | 
» 25. Ferocactus nobilis (Linnaeus). 
Cactus nobilis Linnaeus, earner 243. 3 I Mes 1768 
Cactus recurvus Miller, Dict. Gard. ed. 5. NO. 3. 68. ; 
» Echinocactus recurvus Link and Otto, Verh. Ver. Belord. Gartenb, 3: 420. ar 
Melocactus recurvus Link and Otto, Verh. Ver. Beford. Gartenb. 3: pl. 20. 
\\Echinocactus spiralis Karwinsky in Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 60. 1837. 
