THE DICTIONARY 
OF GARDENING, 
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Echinocactus—continued. 
E. g. nobilis (noble) fl. white. July. Plant deep glossy olive- 
, oblong, with fewer angles than in the type; ang and 
spines middle-sized, straight, A. 2ft. Mexico, 1796. 
ayne's) fl. brilliant purple-red, very large. Stem 
x пша (аре a її; twenty-five or more ribs with rounded 
edges; areole small, oval, with pearly-grey tomentum ; spines 
very numerous, gom with brown points. k. 6in. to 12in. 
Peru. See Fig. 689. : 
Fig. 690. ECHINOCACTUS HEXÆDROPHORUS. 
E. hexzedrophorus (hexedron). fi. white and pale red. June. 
. Plant globose, | а! sous, flat at ^ A UND: ете hexæ- 
drous, di two series, vertical and spiral; areolæ im- 
mers tomentose ; 
mani ess Ка 
Fig.690. (B. 
CEL 
Fig. 691. ECHINOCACTUS LE 
See 
July. t sub. 
acutish  areole 
ating, inner four 
flattened, he 
А t, ra- 
E three straight: 
шен singer treo Мыр one 
1856. 
‘(many-flowered). Л. white, large, July. Plant 
glaucous, OP, hardly аи 
ратат, eed ал irregular, eral sarias: 
P^ 2 prICKIeS , гуей, 
“Probably native of Mexico. (B. M. 4181.3 — 7 «Ча 
is: 
-. Echinocactus —continued. 
E. myriostigma (many-dotted) fl. pale straw-coloured, rising 
from the umbilicate top of the plant. July. Plant roundish- 
oblong, five or six-ribbed ; ribs prominent; areole approximate, 
woolly, unarmed. №. 1%. Mexico, 1845. SYN. Astrophytum 
myriostigma. (В. M. 4177.) 
FiG, 692. ECHINOCACTUS OBVALLATUS, 
E. obvallatus (fortified). f. surrounded by numerous erect. —— 
spines; petals purple, with a whitish border. Stem obovate, 
nearly globose, depressed at the summit, with about a score not 
very prominent vertical ribs. h. 4in. to Gin. South Mexico. 
See Fig. 692. 
Е. Ottonis (Otto's) Л. delicate lemon-colour, sessile, in threes 
or fours upon the summit of the stem, with bright red stigmas. 
July. Plant orbicular-cylindrical, contracted at the base, with 
about twelve vertical deep furrows; the ridges between the 
furrows obtuse, studded with rather closely-set small tufts of 
reddish wool; from these arise three or four rather strong spines, 
of а deep purplish-brown colour, which stand forward and are 
sometimes curved, and several lesser pale-ccloured spreading 
ones. Zin. to din. Brazil, and probably also Mexico. (B. M. 
$107.) 
pectiniferus d).* Л. pale green, rose, solitary, two 
or more from the same crown, and springing from near the top ; 
large for the size of the plant, very beautiful. April Plant su 
rotund or ovate, rather suddenly contracted above the middle, 
Черт and even umbilicated at the top, deeply costate, with 
about twenty prominent costz, which are obtuse and somewhat 
mammillose atthe margins ; in the centre of each mammilla is an 
oblong, white, woolly, close-placed areola, with numerous rather 
Short spines, whose arrangement is very peculiar. They are of 
two kinds ; the greater number spread out almost horizontally in 
two rows, closely placed in a pectinated manner, whitish or 
yellowish-white, tipped with red or brown, almost united at their 
base, the middle ones the longest; between these two rows are а 
few smaller ones. A.4in. Mexico, 1844. А very showy species. 
(B. M. 4190.) MEI 
| ed cet E У 
Obtuse ribs; Ribs lobed or remotely crenate, 
distantly ika ine little woolly tufts or areolæ (pulvinuli), from 
which rise about six sligh 
„ produced from the summit 
пе: vus rate about lin. long, ob- 
