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7 Cae ee branches. ‘The plant was here only 5 feet high, but 
_“ grows about Santa Fe to _ the height of 8 or 10 feet, and continues to be - 
found as far as Chihuahua and Parras. In the latter more favorable cli- 
mate it grows to be a ~ or - or a ee perhaps even 40 feet high, as. - 
Dr. W. informs me, and offers eautifal aspect when covered with 
its large red flowers. It is evidently, ve plant which Torrey and James 
- doubtfully, though incorrectly, 0 Cactus BleoH.B. K. tis nearly 
allied to Opuntia furiosa, Willd., ad well Sip ag ae 2 from it; and as it 
rescens,* the tree cactus, or Pocono, as eal by the ! Mexicans, ak 
appears to be undescribed, I can give it no more appropriate name than 
O. arbo cay 
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poring to ees : Greg . The stems of the plant présent a most sin- ,. 
r appearance} the soft parts having intualune way, a net work of weody } 
bres remains, Tonio ng a hollow tu be, , with very regular rhombic meshes, 
which correspond with the tubercles of the living plant. 
The first Mampmillaria was also met with o n Waggon-mound a species 
mea related to M. vivipara of the Miso and_also to the the Wein 
sa, (Engelm. in Plant. Lindh. inedit.,) but bee eS distinct from 
either. Mr. Fendler has collected the same species near Santa Fe. 
On Wolf creek the curious and beautiful Fallugia paradora, En dl., 
looking like a shrubby Gewm, was found in flow er and fruit; also a news 
poe of Aireplantion, andan'i interesti Bohan. which I named 
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ee ihe poemee th of its having its five styles ; ed. at 
7 Nn. Sp., Ca’ ule erecto, ramnis horigpnisioue 4 
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ramulis | nti ar berescons tberculats aculea eatissimis ; areolis oblongis, ee 
. to 30 cormeos, stramineo-vaginatos teretes undiqué 
porrectos scieatiees elie versus apicem orien; ovario tuberculato, 
- tuberculis sub-20 apice sepala jimi a areolas tomentosas cum Setis 
— »paucis albidis gerentibus; sepalis ievalus 10, 4,13 obovatis; petalis 
vatis sis s. emarginatis; stigmatibus sub-8 "pattuliss bacca flava 
sieca, ovato-globosa, tuberculata ; profunde arabia 
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- Mountains of New Mexico to Chihuahua, Parras, and Saltillo; flowersin _ 
a second | 4 
May and June; fruit, at least about Santa 
year (Fendler;) in the north 5 to 10, 
_ 10 inches in diameter. ae branches 2 to 4 inches ae pe o the 
about 6 lines long. Flowers sare, 3 inches 
fruit about +s long, yellow. 
: 5-partitis, segmentis inci cell 
s haseaaigben: 5 seals parndalose lewee aristatis; pet 
_ “instructis. venas pilosinsculis, ‘obovatis ong 
ovario ghnulass ‘Stylis ima parte solt 
On Wolf creek, flowers i in June. 
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