78 CACTUS CULTURE TOR AMATEURS. 



tubercles are hidden by the star like spine- clusters which cap them. 

 Flowers small, rose-coloured, lasting only about a day. They arc 

 succeeded by numerous currant-like red berries, so that the plant? 

 look as if thicklv studded all over with coral beads. Central stem 



Fig. 36. Mamlllaria dolichocentra. 



sometimes 6 inches high, those surrounding it being shorter and 

 shorter, till the outside ones rise only just above the soil. Native 

 of Mexico, requiring a warm house. A few pieces of broken brick 

 should be placed upon the surface of the soil about the base of the 

 plant. 



