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known from where pisined) shows ‘that to be identical with a Texan, 
species, common between the Brazos‘ and Nueces rivers, which I have 
described in Engelmann and Gray’s Plantae SANE SE SAE, Boston 
Journal of Natural History, v, page 247, under the @ of Lereus caespi- 
tosus, and which shou nef Ke hamed Bihinocceak caespitosus. Fichi- 
nopsis pectinara, 8. set Monv., and y. Reichenbachiana, Salm, e 
perhaps forms of this Pernt plan : which varies considerably in its native 
country. Dr. Wislizenus has sent me a living specimen and dried flow- 
ers of £. pectinatus; ee the plant met with a similar fate to 
those sent to Englan a mt os and there is none now in cultivation, 
if f am correctly inform t I preserve the dried specimen in my her- 
barium, and have basi eatbiad to draw up from it the description.‘ 
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ros 
centralibus 25 brevissimis, uniseriatis; tubo floris palvillis 60-70 ere ee 
tomentosis aculeos albos s. apice roseos 12-15 gerentibus stipato; sepalis 
interioribus 48-20 cbiauctoltis petalis 16-18 oblongis, obtusis, eroso- 
pp saa. mucronati 
Bac south of Chihuahua; flowers in April. Stem 7 inches high, 
below 33, apeve 24 inches in diameter; u upper and lower spines 2 lines, 
Jateral 4 ines long; central oe mostly 3, sometimes 2, and below as 
much as 5, in one vertical row, 4 to 1 line in length. Flowers about 3 
inches long and ite: red or purpl e, spiny bristles on the tube 2 to3 
lines oe: the uppermost 3 to 5 lines long, only 3 t og 
It will not be amiss to introduce rere again a more complete and cor- 
‘Tect description of its Texan relativ 
Echinocereus caespitosus mihi, (Exchinopsis ii smal authors in pach 
re bgp Spapalccus: Engelm, |. ¢.,) ovatus, caespitosus, 13-18-costatus, 
areolis elevatis, linearibus, approximatis, junioribus et villosis ; paras 
tadialibus 20-30 subrecurvis adpress sis, pectinatis, albis (nonnunquam 
Toseis, tad) saperioribus ane tas eat ae Sater lateralibus ds 
longe. ciner 
nio coronata fie setosa, demum nudata ; enineae Adee tubercu- 
latis, nigris. 
From 
the Brazos to the Nueces, in i Texas, Lindheimer; flowers in May 
longer Taceeal Spines in different specimens 2 to 4 nes long ; flowers in, 
the northern specimens, from Industry, 2 inches BS and wide, in those 
from New Braunfels 2} to 3 inches in diameter and length; generally a 
little wider than tong mee os . Brown or black bristles on the 
‘fon nded 7 wool, which is often 3 lines i in 
