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Cacti.— Orcutt. 



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CEREUS SUBINERMIS Hem. 

 CEREUS VIRIDIFLORUS Engelm. 



The Green-tlowered Cereus of the Rocky 

 Mountains is especially beautiful on ac- 

 count of the red, purple and white spines 

 with which the plant is covered. Flow- 

 ers numerous, quite large and showy, 

 light-yellowish-green, very hardy and eas- 

 ily grown. 



Genus CLEISTOCACTUS Lemaire. 



C. baumanni Lem in 111 Hort viii Misc 35; 



Cact 59, based) on Cereus tweedii Bot 



Mag t 4498. 

 C. cOiUbrlnus Lem in IllHort viii Misc 35; 



Cact £0, is Cereus coiUbr:nus. 

 C. 1 hoc acanthus Lem in I I Hort viii 



Msc 35; Cact bl; ;s Echinopsis rhoda- 



cantha. 



Genus CONSOLEA L'maire. 

 C. catacantha Lem Rev Hort (1862) 174 



Cact 91; is Opuntia catacantha. 

 C. ferox Lem Rev Hort (1862) 174; Cact 91 



is Cpuntia ferox. 

 C. leucacantha Lem Rev Hort (1862) 174 



Cact 91; is Opuntia leucacantha. 

 C. rube ce-s Lem, Rev Kort ix Misc 26 



(18 2) ; Cact fO; is Opunt'a rubescens. 

 C. spnosissima Lem, Rev Hoit ix Misc 



62; Cact 91; is Opuntia spino=issima. 

 Gems CORYPHANTHA Lemaire. 



Eased on the subg nus Co-\ phantha 

 E'igelmann. of Mammillari^, and J4 spe- 

 cies and one variety r^pmed, without de- 

 scriptions. In I es Cactees, 34-3S. C. acan- 

 thosterh' s, aulaco'hele, ca''^a'ata, ou va, 

 corrifera, elcphantid^ns, eiecta, j^eh^ a 1- 

 ni. loricata. macromeris, otto "is, pvcna- 

 cantha, raphidacantha, scheeri, schltch- 

 tendalii, and sulcolanata are presumably 

 bas^d on species of MammiHaria of the 

 same names. C. daimonoceras 's probab- 

 ly '■. scolymoides C. corsp'cu^, Engel- 

 n-anri. pianii' ligera. h^t romorp-a, 

 Hooker!, rnd ^uba-ata are nomlna nudi. 

 C. brnimamma, exsu ans. irrpex coma, 

 a-d Nnttrl' 1 fre na-^^^s cr'-dited to Le- 

 ir.a're in Foester (Handb ed 2). C. ancia- 

 t' rantha is - amed by Lemaire as a vari- 

 e'y of raphid?cant>!a, C. plandulifera 

 a-d heter>phylla Lem. in Index Kewen- 

 sis, £r? evident y errors. 



Genus ECHINOCACTUS Link & Otto. 



"F'owers about a« 'ong as wide. O'^'ary 

 CO' ere 3 wif^ sep lo d scries naked or 

 V 00 'y in their ex 1=. Fruit siccul- nt or 

 Fometi-ncs dry covered wth pesistent 

 cal x-scp1^s, s^rosfr-es cnveloned in co- 

 pious vool, pnd usuclly crowned with the 

 prrsicf^nt remrants of the flov.-or. Seed 

 obliquely obovate. black. Fmbryo curved 

 cer the STrall albumen- cotyl°dcns par- 

 al'e' to th"^ sides of the seed.— Mostly 

 large, somet'mes gigantic. g'ob"se or de- 

 pressed, or cvate, or larely subcyrrdric, 

 simple or verv rarelv cespi'^ose; bunches 

 o*" ppines on the more or less vertical ribs. 

 FVwers contiguous to ar>d above the 

 spines, on the 'atest e^rowth of the plant, 

 oft-^n from the rascent woo ly areo'ae 

 a'^d therefor^ more or less vertical, open 

 orly in sunlight." — B. 

 Ec'-i-ocactus acutangulus Zucc, Is cory- 



nodes. 



E. abrocentrus Ktiebn. ? 

 E. ACANIHIOX Salm-Dyck. 



"Caiile globoso Isete virldi, costls numerosissi- 

 mis (3.5-40) valde compressis parum undulatis 

 ad pulvillos inflatis, pulvillis con'ertis juniori- 

 bus albldo-velntinis, aculelgsnperioribiis 3ap- 

 planatis intermedio validissimo, cum centrali- 

 bus 2subulatis bifarie patentibus, basi stramln- 

 eis siiperne fulvido-brnnneis, inferioribus 8 

 multo gracilioribus patentibus albidis. Gaulis 

 robustus, validus, diametro quadripollicari et 

 ultra, acu'eis tectus poUiceni ad sesquipollicem 

 longis. Unica hucusque species est in hacce 

 Sectione aciilcis centralibusduobus Flores ig- 

 noti." HDed 2, 161, 31. 



ECHINC CACTUS ACUTISSIMUS O-D. 

 ECH N? CACTUS ALBATUS Dietr. 

 ECHINOCACTUS ALTEOLENS KS. 

 ECHLVOCACTUS AMBIGUUS Hildm. 

 ECHINOCACTUS ANFRACTUOSCS 



M:.rt. 

 ECHINOCACTUS ARRIGENS L-O. 

 ECHINOCACTUS ASTERIAS Zucc. 



Is .Astpiphytu II myii.)Si'gma. 

 ECHINOCACTIS BEGUINII Web. 

 ECHINOCACTUS BICOLOR Gal. 



Near San Luis Potosi, Mexico. 

 Variety SCH )TTIi Kugelmanii. 

 Echincciactus bolansis Runge, is bi olor. 

 ECHINOCACTUS BREVIHAMATUS E. 

 ECHINOCACTUS CALIFORNICUS Mon. 

 ECHINOC -CTUS CAPRICORNUS D etr 

 ECFINOCACTUS CASTANEO-DES 



Cels. 

 Echin^cactus cjas anens s Ho t, is bi- 



colur. 



ECHINOCACTUS CENTETERIUS Lem. 



ECHINOCACTUS CERATITES Otto. 



ECHINOCACTUS CHILENfcIS H.ldm. 



ECHINOCACTUS CHRYSACANTHION 

 KS. 



ECHINOCACTUS CHRYSACANTHUS O. 



Globose to cylin-Jrical, wi h about 18 

 ribs and 10 fiexuous annulated central 

 ppines 2 inches long, arid 4 to many slen- 

 der white radial spines. Flowers satiny 

 yellow, more rarely crimson. Cedros Is- 

 land. 



ECHINOCACTUS CONCINNUS Monv. 

 ECHINOCACTUS COPTONOGONUS Lm. 



N€ar San Luis Potosi, Mexico. 

 Variety MAJOH alm-Dyck. 



ECHINOCACTUS CORNIGERUS DC. 



iSear San Luis Potosi, Mexico. 

 E^^INO'^^CTT'S r^R' NODES Otto. 



State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. 

 ECHINOCACIUS COXII KS. 

 ECHINOv^ACTUS CRISPATUS DC. 



ECHINOCACTUS CT'MTNGII KopfE. 



Bolivia, South America. 

 ECl INoACTUS CUKVISPINUS Colla. 

 ECHINOCACTUS CYLINDRACEUS B. 

 ECHINOCACTUS DENUDATUS L-O. 



Brazil, South America. 

 BPHINOCACTUS DICHRO ACANTHUS 



Mart. 



