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Mammillaria granulata Meinshausen (Wochenschr. Gartn. Pflanz. i: 264. 1858; 

 Cactus granulatus Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i: 260. 1891) was described without the flowers 

 and fruit being known and it has never been identified. Meinshausen says that it has the 

 habit of M. pusilla, but he considered it different otherwise. 



Cactus stellaris was given by Haworth (Suppl. PI. Succ. 72. 1819) instead of C. stellatus 

 Willdenow. 



Mammillaria pusilla cristata (Schelle, Handb. Kakteenk. 249. 1907) is probably only a 

 form. 



Illustrations: Loudon, Encycl. PI. 410. f. 6842, as Cactus stellaris; Loddiges, Bot. Cab. 

 i: pl. 79, as Cactus stellatus; Plukenet, Opera Bot. i: pi. 29, f. 2, as Ficoides etc.; Diet. 

 Hort. Nicholson Suppl. 514. f. 547; Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. Miinchen 2: pl. i, viii, f. 7; 

 Riimpler, Sukkulenten 197. f. no; Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 8: 73; Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. 

 Paris 17: pl. 2, f. i; Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst. 1908: pl. 2, f. 4; Blanc, Cacti 74, No. 1500; 

 Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen f. 87; Bliihende Kakteen i: pl. 46; Ann. Inst. Roy. Hort. 

 Fromont 2: pl. i, f. B; Watson, Cact. Cult. ed. 2. 255. f. 96; ed. 3. f. 45; Remark, Kakteen- 

 freund 15; Cact. Journ. 2:6, as Mammillaria pusilla. 



Figure 132 is from a photograph by Ernest Braunton of a clump of plants growing in 

 the Huntington collection near Los Angeles, California. 



Fig. 132. — Neomamtnillaria prolifera. 



Fig 133. — Neomammillaria multiceps. 



83. Neomammillaria multiceps (Salm-Dyck). 



Mammillaria multiceps Salm-Dyck. Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1849. 81. 1850. 



Mammillanii miillircps etongala Meinshausen, Wochenschr. Gartn. Pflanz. i: 27. 185S. 



Mammillaria multiceps grisea Meinshausen, Wochenschr. Gartn. Pflanz. 1: 27. 1858. 



Mammillaria multiceps humilis Meinshausen, Wochenschr. Gartn. Pflanz. i: 27. 1858. 



Mammillaria mtdticeps perpusilla Meinshausen, Wochenschr. Gartn. Pflanz. i: 27. 1858. 



Mammillaria pusilla texana Engelmann, Cact. Mex. Bound. 5. 1859. 



Mammillaria texana Poselger in Young, Fl. Texas. 279. 1873. 



Cactus multiceps Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. i: 260. 1891. 



Cactus stellatus texanus Coulter, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3: 108. 1894. 



Cactus texanus Small, Fl. Southeast. U. S. 812. 1903. 



Cespitose, often forming large clumps ; separate plants globose to short-oblong, often only i to 

 2 cm. in diameter; tubercles small, terete, hairy in their axils; radial spines hair-like, white; central 

 spines several, pubescent, yellowish at base, dark brown above; flowers about 12 mm. long, whitish 

 to yellowish salmon, often becoming reddish on outside; fruit oblong, 8 to 12 mm. long, scarlet; 

 seeds black, i mm. long, punctate. 



Type locality: Not cited. 



Distribution: Texas and northeastern Mexico. 



It is sometimes classified as a variety of Mammillaria prolifera, from which it differs 

 in having the central spines always brown-tipped instead of golden yellow ; it is somewhat 

 smaller, with sUghtly smaller seeds. 



