ON THE SPINELESS CACTUS 



which has led to the ascribing of different names 

 in many cases to the same species. 



For example, the variety which I received 

 under the name "Anacantha" (meaning "without 

 spines") from Fairchild, is identical with speci- 

 mens received from the Department of Agriculture 

 bearing only a number, and with others received 

 from Italy on one hand, and from my collector in 

 South America on the other, one of the numerous 

 specimens coming under the name "Gymnocarpa." 



It was often only by careful inspection and 

 observation under hybridizing experiments that 

 we could identify the various specimens as being 

 of the same species, or same variety. 



Again the so-called Morada, another species 

 that proved of value, was first received under the 

 name Amarillo, meaning yellow, from near Vera 

 Cruz, Mexico, it having been sent me by the late 

 Walter Bryant, formerly of Santa Rosa. This I 

 found to be practically identical with another 

 specimen that had come from southern Europe, 

 under the name of Malta. 



Another useful variety that came from various 

 regions under different aliases was the form that 

 has been grown in Florida and in California for 

 the last thirty or forty years and which goes by 

 the common name of White Fruit. 



There are marked variations in the color and 



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