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Echinocactus—continued. 
conical, quite destitute of spines or sete ; sepals or scales ovate, 
brown, with pale margins; petals bright rose, spreading, long, 
linear-spathulate, acute ; stigma of nine or ten spreading bright 
yellow rays, covering the anthers. August. Plant sub-columnar, 
but tapering upwards almost from the base, deeply cut into about 
eight or nine furrows, the ridges obtuse, but formed into lobes or 
tubercles by transverse lines; areole furnished with obscure 
wool; spines about nine, strong, straight, tapering, flattened, at 
first deep purple, afterwards pale and almost colourless, mostly 
spreading, but the central one, page on much the longest and 
h. 4in. to Sin. 
strongest, stands forward. San Luis Potosi, 
Mexico, 1850. (B. M. 4486.) 
Fic. 693. ECHINOCACTUS TEXENS!S. 
E. Ѕсора (Broom). Л. yellow, with the petals, which are ser- 
rated at top, in two series. April. Plant oblong, many-ribbed ; 
fascicles of spines approximate, woolly at base; outer spines 
white, twenty to forty, weak; central three or four, purple, stiff. 
h. 6in. Brazil, 1847. (B. R. xxv. 24 
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toothpick), Л. yellow, 
Echinocactus—continued. 
Л. yellowish-green ог Hp. rather 
small, but numerous on the upper part of the stem. Plant dwarf, 
rarely exceeding 6in. to 8in. high, usually much less ; tubercles 
loosely arranged, lin. to din. long, with several white spreading 
spines, and a central yellowish one. Colorado, 1876. Nearly or 
quite hardy. (Gn., April, 1877; G. C. n. s., vi. 295.) 
E. texensis (Texan). ji. rose-coloured. Plants mostly depressed, 
sometimes globose; ribs from thirteen to twenty-four; areola 
żin. long, and lin. apart; spines from jin. to 2in. long. North- 
eastern Mexico, &c. See Fig. 693, for which we are indebted to 
Herr Fr. Ad. Haage, jun. 
E. tubiflorus (tube-fiowered). Й. large, rising from one of the 
fascicles of spines; tube very long, a little enlarged upwards, 
brownish-green, scaly, each scale with a long tuft of slender, 
flaccid hairs; petals spreading, white, oblong, much acuminated. 
Plant sub-globose, much depressed, umbilicated at the top, and 
deeply cut into about eleven very prominent, compressed, slightly 
undulated angles, which have five or six woolly tubercles, each 
giving rise to a fascicle of six to eight strong black spines, from 
din. to Zin. long. - Mexico. (В. M. 3627.) 
4 (Visnaga, among the Mexican settlers, means a 
numerous. Plant large, elliptical, many- 
angled, with narrow sinuses and deep sinuated tubercled angles ; 
top very woolly; areole approximate, rhomboid, immersed, 
labrous, pale brown ; prickles four, prone, central one 2їп. 
ong, the other three deflexed, shorter. h. 7%. Mexico, 1847. 
A plant of this species, which measured 9ift. in circumference, 
and weighed one ton, was an inmate of the succulent house 
at Kew, in 1846. From injury sustained during its convey- 
да England, it did not long survive. See Fig. 694. (В. M. 
E. Williamsii (Williams's) fl. pale greenish-rose, small, nearly 
solitary. Spring. Plant tufted, depressed, glaucous, six to eight- 
ribbed ; ribs broad, convex, tubercled, unarmed. А. din. Mexico 
1845. (B. M. 4296.) 
ECHINOCEREUS. See Cereus. 
ECHINOCHLOA. Se Panicum. 
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Fig. 695. ECHINOPS COMMUTATUS. 
