Tab. 7009. 

 ECHINOCACTUS Haselbeegii. 



Native county unknown. 



Nat. Ord. Cacte^:. — Tribe Echinocacte;e. 

 Genus Echinocactus, Link Sf Otto ; (Benth. et Hoolc.f. Gen. PL vol. i. p. 818.) 



Echinocactus (Microgoni N Haselbergii I; globosa v.oblata, pallide viridis, ob setas 

 confertissimas argenteo-cana, tuberculis parvis convexis in seriebus innumeris 

 dispositis convexis laavibus, areolis parvis albo-tomentellis, setis ad 20 gracilliinis 

 stellatim patentibus insequilongis albis, interioribus erectioribus consimilibus, 

 floribus oehraceo-rubris, perianthii tubo late campanulato setis fasoiculatis 

 suberectis basi pilosis instructo, laciniis ad 40, extimis 10-12 lanceolatis sub- 

 acutis extus rubris intus oubraceis, interioribus consimilibus, intimis brevioribus, 

 staminibus parvis brevibus confertis aureis, stylo columnari elongato, rffcig- 

 matibus 6 erectis. 



E. Haselbergii, Font Sandb. der Cncteen. vol. i. p. 563. 



This is a beautiful little species; the crossing of its 

 stellate tufts of silvery spicular spines partially obscuring 

 the pale-green surface beneath, which is studded with the 

 white areolae, gives the effect of seeing the latter through 

 a transparent medium ; and the play of light and shade as 

 the little globe is turned round is very pretty. Nothing 

 appears to be known of its native country, and the only 

 published notice of it which I have seen is in Forster's 

 1 valuable Handbook, where it is briefly described (without 

 flower), under the above name, under E. Scopa, Link, with 

 the observation that the specimen was in the collection of Dr. 

 Von Haselberg of Straisund, an eminent cultivator of Cacti, 

 who procured it from the dealer, Ad. Haage, jun., of 

 Erfurt. The specimen here represented was purchased from 

 Hildmann of Berlin, and flowered in April of the present 

 year. Though belonging to the same section as E. Scopa, 

 it is a very different species in the form of t lie whole plant 

 and of the perianth, as well as in the colour of the latter 

 and its segments, which are acute and quite entire. 



Descr. Globose or oblate, three inches in diameter, pale 

 silvery grey from the copious spines. Tubercles small, 

 convex, appearing almost vertically disposed in innumerable 

 parallel series, but really spirally arranged, convex, pale 



AUGUST 1st, 1888. 



