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uinea. These, together with a low scrubby oak tree, with small 
ennial leaves, were the only trees collected about Cosihuiriachi. A 
» species of Juniperus, with red berries, a Thuja, and a small-leav ved Co- 
wania (?)*7 all of them i In fruit, were also brought from there. : 
‘Between Chihuahua and Cosihuiriachi, but especially about the latter 
bis the pepnte sr produced a number of Cactaceae, some strange 
hes, which. project. irecti 
fourth is distinguished by its longer and curved reddish radiating spines, 
_ with a stouter one projecting from their centre.*! I have all of these in. 
Bey eee ee — : - 
** Cowania, Shru aly theta: 
grR- ( 
ages at apex, a a coresions below, glabrous and oun above, ~) 
cented; turbinate tube of calyx, as well as the oblong lobes, 1 line - 
w long, Ke stamens, persistent; about 5 e agolly pence ompare below 
‘ not e5 ’ ) 
; Beker n. sp., eereetaeovatite, 10- costes areo- : 
lis elevati iain ieaion ibus albide Ftomen ; aeuleis © ~ 
7 radialibus 10-12 ‘avid, apice adustis, plus min nus po eralibus > 
maaap bus, s sub:4 ree 
~~ eorneis; apice fuses, b i superioribus sursum ssctets gare. sgn lon- £ 
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Cosihuiriachi. : Sovotal vad stems, 4 to 5 inches high and 2hto3in - 
diameter, ‘fiche one base; upper radial spines 4 to 5, lateral and inferior 8 S is 
10, upper central 9 to 12, lower one 15 to 20 lines long. Spines at last 
ashy-gr “gray. eee 
*° Echinocereus adustus, n. spt, ovatus, 13-15-costatus; areolis elevatis, « Ps 
 lanceolatis, approximatis, junionbus albo-tomentosis; aculeis gare 164 =% 
ralibus : inferioribusque lo 
*? ihiriachi.— Plant e to 4 inches high, 
_ Spines loreal abont 2; — lateral 4 to 5 lines lon ; a 
ue oe ereus radians, n. sp., ovatus may et s, areolis sev, + 
* . ovatig, “‘subap soriaa : ee us albo-villosis; aculeis 
ae _adpressis, junioribus aj sice adustis, superioribus brevibus setaceis, laterali- 
yus infer sque longioribus robustioribus; ¢ centrali singulo porrecto, ro- 
nuitiachi.—2} inches high, 2 in diameter; upper radial spines 1 to 
late ie lin: shinies sata ss Bs or black, gee _* 
$ elongatis fuscis, recurvis, centrali si 
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