26 
Moines 
= 
pus 
‘known from where obtained,) shows that to be’ id@ntical with a Teme 
species, com een the Brazos and Nueces rivers, which I have: 
described in Engelmann and Gray’. s "Plantae Linheimerianae, Boston 
Journal of Natural History, v, page 247, under the name of Cereus caespi- 
tosus, and which should now ‘be named | } Eichi 
how in cultivation, 
iflam Recpecty faite ut I preserve the dried @pecimén in my her- * 
barium, and have been enabled toxdegw up from it the iinet af 
Beak. ols le 16-20 subrecuyis, adpressis, pectinatis, albis, ia 
‘Foseis, superioribus inferioribusque _brevioribus, Seoraihe’ ee 
Rasnion's 2-5 brevissimis, pice mseos 12 tubo — Bak [villis a eeaihy bre 
low ; ve 24 inches in diameter ; upper and lower spines 2 lines," 
Jateral 4 lines long} central spines mostly 3, sométimes 2, and below as 
‘much as 5, in one vertical row, } to 1 line in length. » - Flowers about 3 
Grate long : and wide; red or purple, spiny bristles on the tube 2 to 3 
or: the ar ey 3 to 5 sas a one, 0 only 3 to 5 together 
“Te will not be amiss introduce h fe teen’ a more complete and cor- 
rect description of $b : Texan rouutive:* 
Echinocer prtosus + (Echinopsis pectinata, authors in part; 
Preset. nn nepeniomreen 
ngelm ») 
- areolis elevatis Scone approximatis, junioribus albo villos 
radiali subrecurvis adpressis, pectinatis, 
$s 
ih.,) superioribus splerioribus ue We te ae 
S setas apice s, totas scas s. Sigticanies 6-12 
interioribus 18-25 oblanceolatis integris s, Fe ui 
cz obovato-lanceo iis, obtusi is, Ss. mucronatis, ciliat 
is, acuti 
viri ti infandibuliformi 13-18-partito; bacea vi vata, perigo- 
he sepa . setosa, Bar nudata ; ee ovatis tubereu- 
pata as ne 
gee tine ot 
Ss 
te = 
to 5 or 6 
length. 
ao south Of ne flowers in re : a 7 inches pag 
2S 
3 caespitosus, Eneelm, |. c. ovatus, caespitosus, 15-18-costaoaa we 
7 
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