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California Art & Nature. 



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"Plant cespitose, 1-4 feet In diameter, «ed, pulpy, filled with black seeds. Utah, 

 few to 500 short stems (6-9 inches long and California, Baja Oalifornia and Arizona, 

 2-2l^ inches in diameter) in each, forming 

 dense oval cushions; stems with 10-* ob- 

 tuse ribs, shallow intervals, and an equal 

 number of internal ligneous fibers; radial 

 spines 1-12 and of an average length of 

 one-fourth inch, the 4 cenral spines lar- 

 ger, three-foarths to 1 in«h long, slender, 

 white; flower an inch across, icluding the 

 ovary 1% inches long, the oblorg spatu- 

 late sepals bright red with a broad pur- 

 plish mid vein; ovary and fruit with 25-SO 

 spiny areolae; fruit fleshy with, numerous 

 small seed; stamens slender, as long as 

 sepals; anthers small, red; style three- 

 fourt'hs inch long, stigmata 6-8, greenish." 

 —Or W 2:46 (Je 18J6). 



Type locality, near Todos Santos bay. 

 Lower California. 



TOMATO GROWN ON TRELLIS. 

 The accompanying figure shows the yel- 

 low plum tomaio, growing en a trellis, 

 eight feet high. 



CERBUS PUGIONIFBRUS Lem. 



CEREUS ENGELMANNI Parry. 



Engelmann's cushion cactus. Heado sev. 

 era! (sometimes, though rarely, a hundred,) 4 

 to 12 inches high, cylindric or ovate, with 11 

 to 13 ribs bearing bunches of about 13 pale 

 radiating spines, and about 4 darker (yellow, 

 brown or black), stout and angular, straight 

 or curved central spines, 1 to 3 inches long. 

 Flowers very numerous, bright magenta, often 

 4 Inches across, followed by delicious fruits, 

 with mucb the same flavor of a strawberry. 



CEREUS GUMMOSUS Hngelm. 



The pitahaya agria, or cord-wood 

 cactus, of Lower California, is noted 

 for its large, bright, scarlet fruit, pos- 

 sessing a delicious flavor, pleasantly 

 acid, like a strawberry, the pulp the 

 color of a ripe watermelon, with the 

 small black seeds scattered throughout. 

 The flowers are 4 to 5 inches long, pur- 

 ple, and quite handsome. The stems 

 are 4 to 10 feet high, 3 to 5 inches in 

 diameter, armed with stout angular, 

 blackisk spines. 



CEREUS ERUCA Brandegee. 



"Prostrate, very rarely branched, 13- 

 ribbed, 3-4 feet long, 3-4 inches in diam- 

 ter; rooting from the under side of the 



