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| oetileivation, but have not seen as yet flowers or fruit from Fee fore nee. . 
i cannot but belong to my genus. Eichinocereus, to ju 
- analo F 
“7 Some Mampillariae of Cosihuiriachi are distinguished by their dere 
d # shape ; the tubercles are very short, globose, or even hemispherical, the —« 
spines iain g capraater gear and ‘adpressed / 4 fruits central non ‘ 
a woolly v Mame@ggillaria compacta Another, M. gummifera,?* 
belongs fagethor he two ect from ‘Te exas, and fit the mouth of the 
-and tuilky juice, Ghvele hardening, forms a gum. A third species belon. 
‘to Crinitae, and is a most elegant little plant with numerous hairlike radi- 
ating and one stout, hooked central spine; I have named it M. barbata.*4 
; spines or bristles 1 to 2, lower about 4, and lateral 7 to 9 lines long; cet 
i Spine much seuss inch lon . 
34 ee /3? Mame aria compacta, n. sp., simplex, pemnipebaction,: s. depres 
. £ globoks; reulis @ reviatis, ovoideo- -conicis, sulcatis Ss ov aise G m 
“ €eolatis, S iisoet ribus albo-tomentosis; aculeis omnibus. aistitene 13-16 
“subaequalibus, papa recurvatis, adpressis, intertextis, albidis, superiori- a 
bus apice fuscis; sul mm. axillisque junioribus.et vertice tomen 
_ tosis; flo: ribus- Jn. vertice ‘congestis; baccis ellipticis perigonio coronatis, 
Lvis. 
nches in diameter and 11 to 2} inches — 
éles in 13 rows, 4 lines gee 6 lines wide at base; spines in- | 
ng. and thereby often deformed and twisted, stout, 7 to 10 lines 
TE p., lactiflua, ales; hemisphastica, . 4 
adrangial aa axillis areolisque junioribus - - 
tomentosi 3 aculeis Seoctis. radialibus 10-12, inferioribus ee bs 
' fuscis su superiores = eae albidos ter a soni centra libu robustis, $ 
brevi ibus, fuscis, po rrectis. : 
- Sosihuliriachi.— —From 3 to 5 inches in Stemete, 2h cay = nation 
wounded it exati' a milky fluid, whi in 
. be: and 5 to’6 lines be at base; eh in not Sens 
, fruit. not § 
See Sor, h ns all -tedc owers, and long clavate. scarlet 
berries, without the Snhnts of the ‘ven Tt is a fact which I has a 
_. , repeatedly observed, and ina considerable number of species, that the 
. ec or lesa of the mammillariae are ais i ; 
; — of the 
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