577 578 



cotyledons accumbent, partly buried bright sunshine, rose-purple; ovary 3 

 in the large farinaceous albumen." No lines long; tips of sepals dark purple, 

 specimen appears to have been pre- protruding from the dense white wool 

 vserved by Maj. Emory, who probably which envelopes the entire flower: 

 found the plant on the Gila river (as fruit red, juicy, soon drying and 

 stated by Engelmann in the boundary breaking off transversely, leaving the 

 report), where it has since been found ba-? with most of the seeds hidden in 

 by Orcutt. Tourney and others have the wool: seeds shrivelled in appear- 

 so far failed to find it in New Mexico, artce, 1.2-1.5 lines long, black. (10-20) 

 as now bounded. It has not been ob- ECHINOCACTUS JOHNSONII Engelm. 

 served west of the Colorado river by Johnson's hedghog cactus was named 

 Coville, Parish or others so far as for J. E. Johnson, an early Mormon 

 known, the usual reference, as quoted naturalist, who discovered it about S. 

 from Engelmann and Bigelow, "Col- George in southern Utah. It is a 



lected west of the Colorado, in the rare and handsome plant, 4 to 7 inches 

 valley of the Mojave. mixed with E. high ' oval > 3 to 5 inches in diameter, 

 polycephalus." being undoubtedly er- densely covered with stout reddish- 

 roneous. a* it is followed on the same ^ av spines-turning deep red when 

 page bv the statement that they "col- wet - The flower is about 2 ^ inches 

 lected only one young specimen, prob- broad ' <* a rose purple normally, but 

 ably on the lower Colorado." (100) so e P^nts which opened their flowers 



while packed in a box away from the 



W ZSS ( 8i8^*2S?fgSS?-* "Sht leave llht ,el]owl.h-green petals 

 diameter, usually under 2 feet high, light marked with deep maroon at base. 

 apple green in color, with a withered ap- Anthers pale primrose yellow; fiila- 

 pearance (perhaps not normal); ribs tu- mpT1< . s i/ ; np v, i nT ,rf ty,^ innpr nnn<* 

 berculate. acute, spirally inclined (hence m ^ 



called caracola. "snail", or biznaga cara- White, outer ones reddish. Growing in 

 cola), usually 13. to rarely 17, intervals out-of-the-way desert places in Ne- 

 narrow and deep; radial spines 10 or less. va ^ &t Arizona, and California, it costs 

 SSff*X?! lafeX disp^edrcentS ch trouble to secure this beautiful 

 spines 7. stout, strongly annulated. red- species. 



dish crown, the 3 upper and ?. lower of ECHINOCACTUS LECONTEI Engelm. 

 about equal length, divergent, 1-3 inches Plant 3-4 feet high, about one-third that 

 long, terete or slightly angled, straight: in diameter, clavate: flower 2 inches long, 

 the longest central erect, straight, flat- lemon yellow. Type locality on the low- 

 tened or channelled above. ^ inch broad er parts of the Gila and Colorado rivers. 

 or less, varying from 1 to G inches in and in Sonora.' The Mohave and Colora- 

 length sometimes on the same plant, uni- do Desert plants, usually referred to this 

 formly about ^ inch at the tip turned species, seem to me distinct. This now 

 downward at right angles vith the main seems to me distirct from either E. Wis- 

 portion of the spine, forming a short llzeni or E. cylimJraeeus. 

 hook. Named in honor of William Pal- ^ limitn* F^P-piTT-ann A/r3Q nnnHar 

 coner. Type. Orcutt, No. 2603:-Batamo- JJ* 



tal, Sonora, Mexico. CM! 3:374 (1 Ap 1896): "Globose 



Flower and fruit will be described later, and lars^e, 3 dm. or more in diameter: 

 but resemble those of E. Wislizeni. with - bs . 21 O hlinno thirl*- ami hrnart 

 which the plant has perhaps hitherto * 

 been confounded (compressed above), slightly inter- 



K. bor^onthalonl^ I*ma.re Cact. 



Gen. Nov. et Sp. 19. Mexico. Glaucous, jnent occasionally som e what 



depressed-globose or at length ovate e cen y ashv-red, 



or cylindrical. 2-8 inches high. 3-6 in annulate . s]i g h tl y recurved, up- 



diameter: ribs 8-10, often spiral, - lower ^ ^ &nd ^ 



obtuse, the tubercles in old specimens cm oneg ar 



form of E. peninsulae." Orcutt Rev 81; purplish-brown or dusky. 3.o-4 cm. 

 grooves: areolae 6-10 lines apart, cov- long and broad: fruit green." Xot es- 

 ered with long wool when young: sentially distinct from E. viridescens. 

 spines mostly 6-8, about an inch long, Type locality: Boundary line between 

 slender to stout and broad: flower 2% California and Baja California, with 

 inches long and broad, open only in Agave Shawii and Cereus Emoryi. (5) 



