APPENDIX. 257 
On page ror, vol. 1, under Opuntia pubescens, add the synonym: Cactus pubescens 
Lemaire, Cactées 87. 1868. 
On page 102, vol. 1, under Opuntia curassavica, add to illustrations: Dillenius, Hort. 
Elth. 2: pl. 295, as tuna; Loudon, Encycl. Pl. 413. f. 6897, as Cactus curassavicus; Knorr, 
Thesaurus pl. 0.2. 
On page 102, vol. I, insert: 
80a. Opuntia abjecta Small, sp. nov. 
Prostrate, often growing in large irregular patches on almost bare limestone or where some 
sand and humus has accumulated, irregularly branched; joints suborbicular, sometimes nearly 
subglobose, oval, or broadly obovate, mostly 4 to 8 cm. long, very thick, frequently turgid, light 
green, loosely attached to each other; leaves ovoid to conic-ovoid, 2 to 3 mm. long, ascending and 
slightly curved upward, green or purplish; glochids yellowish; spines setaceous-acicular, mostly 
solitary, brown, or reddish purple, mottled light and dark, becoming chalky gray when dry, the 
larger ones 2 to 6 cm. long; flowers usually solitary on a joint; berry urceolate, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 
somewhat tuberculate, red or purple-red, rounded at base; umbilicus relatively broad, concave; 
seeds few, flattish, about 4 mm. wide. 
On edge of hammock, southern end of Big Pine Key, Florida. Type collected in May 
1921 by J. K. Small, preserved in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. 
Similar to Opuntia drummondii but with shorter joints, longer and more slender 
spines, and different fruit. 
On page 105, vol. 1, under Opuntia drummondit, add to illustration: Journ. Elisha 
Mitchell Sci. Soc. 34: pl. 13, 14. 
On page 105, vol. 1, under Opuntia tracyt, insert: Oo 
Type Locality: Biloxi, Mississippi. Distribution: Southern Mississippi, southeastern 
Georgia to northern Florida. 
On page 105, vol. I, insert: 
86a. Opuntia impedata Small, sp. nov. ; 
Prostrate, ultimately copiously branched, the joints often piled several layers deep and forming 
viciously armed mats, elliptic or oblong, mostly 7 to 15 cm. long, rather thick, pale green; leaves 
