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Mammillaria continued. 
M. bicolor (two-coloured).* jl. purple, small. Stem cylindrical, 
somewhat club-shaped, Sin. to 10in. high, 2in, to 3in. in diameter, 
branching from near the base; tubercles very short, dark green, 
hidden by the spines, which are in two series, the outer filiform, 
closely set, spreading, the others fewer, erect, yellowish. Mexico, 
&c., 1855. A distinct species, the whole surface of which appears 
as if covered with a fine cobweb. 
M. Caput-Medusee (Medusa's head). f. white, about lin. in 
diameter. Stem from 4in. to Ein. high, globular, or occasionally 
columnar; tubercles four-angled or ovate, bearing four small 
white spines and two thicker and stronger ones. ; 
M. chlorantha (greenish-yellow-flowered). fl. greenish. Stem 
. covered with long, densely inter woven spines. Texas, 
M. cirrhifera (tendril-bearing), N. bright rose; anthers yellow. 
Stem cylindrical, 3in. to Ain. high; tubercles short, conical, Jin. 
long, glaucous-green, furnished with a crown of yellow spines. 
Mexico, 1835, A pretty little species, having a neat and sym- 
metrical habit. 
M. clava (club-shaped).* f. two or three, large, handsome, showy, 
borne at the summit of the plant; base tcalyx) of green scales, 
tipped with red; petals glossy straw-colour, numerous, serrated 
and mucronate at apex, the more exterior ones entire, and tinged 
with dull red; stamens orange, numerous; rays of the stigma 
yellow. June. Stem columnar, glaucous green, lft. high; 
tubercles pyramidal, large, projecting, and ascending; axils 
densely downy with white wool ; areole terminal, and bearing 
besides eight to eleven long, rigid, pale brown spines, and a 
single larger and stronger one. Mexico, previous to 1848. 
(B. M. 4358.) 
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FIG. 508. MAMMILLARIA DOLICHOCENTRA. 
M. dolichocentra (long-spurred).* j. pale rose or reddish-crim- 
son. Stem stout, 6in, to 8in. high, 3in. in diameter; tubercles 
conical, narrow, zin, long, crowned with a small tuft of white 
down, and a few white spines of irregular length. Mexico. A 
strong. growing species, of variable habit. See Fig. 508. 
M. floribunda (copious-flowering). fl. pink, tinged with red, 
very copiously > uced; petals very unequal. Stem globose- 
sub-cylindrical; tubercles thick, conico-hemispherical, obtuse ; 
tickles villose-tomentose. Chili. This species approaches 
- atrata, but differs in its stouter habit, larger tubercles and 
flowers, and unequal petals. (B. M. 3647.) . 
Vol. II. 
Mammillaria—continued. 
lis (slender).* f. pale yellow, rather large. Stem cylin- 
drical, lin. to 2in. high, zin. in E tubercles small, green ; 
spines In one series, white, spreading, closely set. Mexico. One 
of the prettiest of the dwarf-growing species, 
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Fie, 509. MAMMILLARIA HAAGEANA, 
M. Haageana (Haage’s). „. bright carmine. rose, searcely longer 
than the tubercles. May to July. Stem bullet-shaped when 
young, somewhat club-shaped when old, only 2 aw woolly 
in the axils; spines, outer ones about twenty, short, white ; 
central ones two, stiff, longer, black. Mexico, 1835. See Fig. 
509, for which we are indebted to Herr Fr, Ad. Haage, jun., of 
Erfurt. 
M. Lehmanni (Lehmann's). f, moderately large, terminal; 
petals straw-colour, numerous, linear-oblong, imbricated ; fila- 
ments red. Stem 6in. high, oblong-cylindrical, covered all over 
with large conical tubercles, tipped with a minute woolly tuft, 
from which springs a fascicle of seven or eight slender spines, one 
of which is twice as long as the rest. Mexico, 1836. (B. M. 
3634.) 
M. micromeris (small-flowered). fl. pale rose, very minut 
‘succeeded by red berries zin. long. Stem resembling a flatten 
ball, 2in. in diameter, and 14in. high, with a cirenlartuft of down 
in the centre at the apex, about lin. across, surrounded by stiff 
white spines ; tubercles very small, closely set. Mexico, &c. 
M. multiceps (many-branched). f. pale yellow, with a reddish 
line in ine hake of the petals. Stem dwarf, much-branched 
or divided, lin. high, zin. in diameter; tubercles zin. to jin. 
Jong, fine, numerous, the inner yellow, larger, stronger. 
Mexico. 
Neumanniana (Neumann’s). jl. of arosy hue. Stem cylin- 
ak bin. to 6in. Med; tubercles stout, gin. Jong, dark green, 
with a tuft of down at the apex, and a few tawny spines, zin. 
long. Mexico, 1845. A bold and distinct species. 
Odieriana (Odier's). f. reddish-violet. Stem cylindrical, 
mg to 4in. neh 2in. in diameter, very symmetrical ; tubercles 
zin. long, dark green, with the spines in two series, the outer 
close and fine, the inner tawny, zin. to zin. long. Mexico. A very 
attractive and neat plant. ; 
M. Par 
80. 0 globular ss, clothed 
Peacockii (Peacock’s).* A small semi ose mass, akh 
, pectinata (combed).* ji. yellow, about 2in. in diameter, lasting 
27 — beauty ach about o Dati: Stem conical or nearly globular, 
Sin. high, and 24in. m — 1 vA ardoa Sporan 
owned with a rosette, abou across, 
ee e hills on the borders of Mexico. One of the 
handsomest species. 5 — 
ymatothele (tumour-nipp „ bright rose. £ n. 
10 pay high, ein. 3 tubercles jin. long, conical, dark 
green, crowned with a small tuft of white down, and a few white 
hair-like spines, which are spreading and erect. Mexico, 1846. 
A not uncommon and 3 soroa TRA E 
pulchra dsome). fl. rosy, rather large, produced near the 
ppt — of 8 * the woolly axils of the tubercles. 
June. Stem green, Ain. to Sin. high, oblong-cylindrical, with a 
depressed woolly apex, and almost covered with unequal spines, 
arranged in eleven to thirteen symmetrical, very spiral rows; 
tubercles rather large, ovately pyramidal. Mexico, 1826. (B. R. 
mall)“ f. yellowish, the petals with a central line 
1329.) 
* rose. Stem lin. to Zin. high, cylindrical-globular; tubercles 
narrow, conical, gin. to in. long, grey-green ; spines in two series, 
outer numerous, filiform, white; inner fewer, erect, brownish. 
West Indies, 1820, A very small, but exceedingly pretty plant. 
(L. B. C. 79, under name of Cactus stellatus.) 
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