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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, : 
ECHINOPS (from echinos, hedgehog, and ops, appear- 
ance; in reference to the spiny scales of the involucre). 
Globe Thistle. Syn. Echinanthus. Овр. Composite. A 
rather large genus of ornamental, but somewhat coarse- 
growing, mostly hardy biennials or perennials, with a 
Thistle-like appearance. Inflorescence globose; florets 
white or blue, with an involucre of prickly scales and 
bristles. The cluster of heads or capitules is surrounded 
by an involuere of linear scales, thus completing the 
appearance of a single head. They are of very easy 
culture in common garden soil, and form excellent subjects 
. for borders, or for naturalising in shrubberies. Тһе 
. biennials may be propagated by seed, sown in April; the 
perennials by division, in March. 
banaticus (Banat). #.-heads blue. Summer. 1. roughish, 
Ж. фар nd c beneath ; radical ones pinnate ; upper 
ones pinnatifid ; lobes oblong, acuminated, spiny, slightly 
Á€— h. en Eastern Europe, 1832. Slightly branch- 
" lennial. 
E. commutatus (changed)*  JL-heads whitish. Summer. l 
tifid, rough with hairs on the upper side, downy beneath ; 
margins with small spines. Л. bft. to 7ft. Austria, &c., 1817. 
; Perennial. SYN. E. exaltatus. See Fig. 695. 
Е, exaltatus (lofty). А synonym of E. commutatus. 
Е. Ritro (Ritro)*- Л. blue. Summer. Z pinnatifid, not 
— downy , Webbed above. h. 3ft. South 
urope, 1570. Perennial. (B. M. 932.) 
-~ mate, leathery, pinnatifid ; divisions toothed and spiny: dull n 
. above, — beneath. Stem downy. „В aft. to ait. бесе 
estern Asia, 1816. Perennial. 
696. FLOWERING BRANCH OF ECHINOPS SPHEROCEPHALUS, 
. Spherocephalus  (globe-headed heads 
рм a sinvate-pinnatiid, spinose, nis and Ma 
odit. Europe, Western Asia. See Fig 606” апеей, 
| (from echinos, hedgehog, and opsis, 
ring to the spines which clothe its globose 
JED. Cactem. А small genus of stove Cacti, 
ey Placed as a section of Cereus. Calyx tube 
3 lobes numerous; stamens in two series ; 
the calyx tube; inner free. Fruit 
. Sealy. 
í ‘more slender, and rather 
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Echinopsis—continued. 
Stem depressed, ribbed, globose, or cylindrical. 
There are about two dozen species in cultivation, many 
very rare, and of which the following selection will be 
found a representative one. For culture, see Cactus. 
E. campylacantha (curved-spined). . Л. about біп. long, from the 
areole near the centre of the plant; calyx tube funnel-shaped, 
olive- n; segments of the limb gradually passing into the 
spreading, acute, pale rose-coloured petals. Plant about 1%. 
high, between ovate and globose; areole approximate, large, 
oval woolly, bearing from eight to ten rather slender spines. 
00195 1851. А handsome and well-marked species. (В. М. 
E. cristata (crested).* This plant closely corresponds with the 
variety described below, but has a larger and different-coloured 
flower; the petals are broader in proportion to their length, а 
creamy-white gradually passing into the greenish-purple of the 
outer sepals; the spines in the present form are more slender, 
less curved, of a paler colour, but tipped with a darker brown. 
Itflowers in July. Bolivia, 1846. (B. M. 4687.) 
E. ç. purpurea (purple). fl. very large, two to four from a plant, 
arising from near the summit and from one of the pulvilli, 
funnel-shaped; tube біп. long, green, bearing numerous acu- 
minated scales, fringed with rather copious woolly black hair; 
uppermost scales longer, gradually passing into sepals; petals 
rose-coloured, numerous, ‘oblong, spreading, serrated and mucro- 
nate at point. July. Plant bc but depressed and rather 
deeply umbilicated at top, full green (not glaucous), somewhat 
glossy, ome is wed.  Ribs about seventeen or eighteen, 
nearly 8 t, much compressed, notched at nearly equal in- 
te: and thus divided into a number of very obtuse rounded 
lobes. Pulvinuli in the notches, i 
twelve strong, large, slightly-curved 1 
most one the longest and strongest. 
h. Bolivia, - 
A very handsome species, remarkable for the large size of — 
flowers and for the deeply-lobed ribs of the stem. . M. 452.) 
FIG. 697. ECHINOPSIS DECAISNEANUS. 
sub-columnar when old, light glaucous 
green, with about fourteen compressed outs: tibet .areole | 
crowded, with white tomentum ; spines short, greyish ; 
опез тегу small. л. біп. to 15in, Native I 
Shorter, green, and free from the long, coarse, ash-coloured 
