152 CACTUS FAMILY. 



M. Lindleyi. Cultivated, from California, usually under the name of 

 BAKTOMA ATKKA. Plant 1 2 high, with leaves lance-ovate in outline 



and deeply pinnatitid, tlicir lobes linc:ir; ttowers with "> obuvate and pointed 

 bright yellow petals ojieniniz in ;-un>lnne, and the very numenm-, tilamriits all 

 slender i 



M. ornclta, the BAKTOSIV OKNATA of Nuttall, a very large-flowered 

 species, of the plains of Nebraska and S. : 2 - 4 hi-h, with oblong-lanceolate 

 sinuate-pinnatitid leaves, and white fragrant llowers opcnm;: at sunset or on a 

 cloudy afternoon, leafy-bractcd undrr the ovary, and with 10 lance-ovate or 

 spatulate acute petals, about 2' Ion:;, the f> inner narrower, and the 200 - 300 

 filaments all .-lender; seeds very many and Hat. Karely cult, for ornament, 

 but well worthy of it. (J) 11 ? 



M. nilda, the BAKTOM v xi DA of Xuttall, of the same district and further 

 south, and less rare in cultivation than M. ornata, resemble.- it, but has (lowers 

 of half the si/,e and often without leafy bracts under the ovary; outer fila- 

 ments mostly broadened ; seeds wing-margined. -, 2/ ' 



3. Ki;c\'ll>i: of Xuccarini Pml s/nni, i-<iii/<iiniit : / IT/-// n/n/ti/ nniintr 



Or oblong seeds : /Inirn-* ..//(//'//, yellow, "////'/ m brii/hi sunshine, 

 M. longipes. ('nit. from Mexico and Texas under the name nf Ki 

 BARTONlolDES ; a tender succulent plant, brancbinLT and iiMially spreading on 

 the ground, bristly, with ovate cut-toothed or slightly lobed leaves on slender 

 petioles, and llowers mostly on still longer .simple peduncles. (;!'-0' Ion;;), the 

 5 ovate petals and very many slender filaments fully 1' long. 



2. BLUMENBACHIA. (Named for the distin-ui-hcd German physiol- 

 ogist, Blumenbach, Includes CAl6pHORA Fl. all summer. 



B. insigniS. Cult, from Chili ; rather curious than ornamental, with 

 palmately about 5-partcd leaves, small llowers with white petals and yellow 

 red-tipped inner appendages; the pod obovate, slightly twisted, with o strongly 

 project ii)'_ r placent;v. i 



B. latoritia. Cult, from South America, under the name of L<i\sv or 

 CAIOIMIOK \ r.\ i r.ufriA ; climbing freely ; with pinnatifid or pinnate leaves of 

 5 or more lance-ovate divisions or leaflets, which are cut-to.. tiu-d or some ot 

 them again pinnatifid; flowers almost 2' across, with brick-red petals, the long 

 pod at length much twisted. 



49. CACTACE^J, CACTUS FAMILY. 



Fk-sliy plants of peculiar aspect, mostly persistent, destitute of 

 foliage (willi exception of the rare, Pereskia), its place supplied by 

 the green rind of the flattened, columnar, globular, or various-shaped 

 stern; the perfect solitary and sessile llower with calyx adherent to 

 the ovary, its lobes or sepals, the petals, and the stamens numerous, 

 usually in several ranks, (he latter mostly very numerous ; ovary 

 1-celled with several parietal placenta-: Style single, With several 

 stigmas ; the fruit a 1-celled and generally many-seeded pulpy berry. 

 (See Lessons, p. -l.S. lig. HI, and p. 84, fig. 22!).) 



We have three or four wild species, several others in common 

 house-cultivation, and a larger number in choice collections, some 

 of which are hybrids. 



1. X tube to (Jiejli'iri / nbore the wart/ : f/an jhit> <l. 



1. OPUNTIA. Stem branching, formed of successive joints, which are mostly 

 flat, bearing lit fir-t -nine minute awl-shaped bodies aiiMvevint; to leaves, 

 which soon fall oil, and tufts of barbed bristles and often prickles also in their 

 axils. Flower* from the edge or side of a joint, opening in sunshine 

 for more than one day. 



