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repand; leaves ovoid, 2 to 4 mm. long, often purplish; areoles rather prominent; glochids yellowish 

 brown; spines 5 to 6 together or sometimes fewer on new joints, yellow, stiff, subulate, reflexed, 

 becoming gray when dry, yellowish green when wet, straight, the longer ones 4.6 to 5 cm. long; 

 flowers rather few; ovary turbinate, even; sepals often pirrple-tinged, deltoid to rhombic-orbicular 

 or rhombic-reniform, acute; corolla bright lemon-yellow, 7 to 8.5 cm. wide; petals few, cuneate, 

 somewhat crisped; berry obovoid, red, about 2 cm. long. 



On edge of hammock, southeastern end of Big Pine Key, Florida. Type specimens 

 collected in December 192 1, by J. K. Small, in the herbarium of the New York Botanical 

 Garden. 



Related to 0. dillenii, differing in shape of the joints, which are not repand, and the 

 strongly reflexed, scarcely flattened spines. 



On page 166, vol. i, under Opuntia lindheinieri, add to illustrations: Journ. Hered. 

 Washington, 6^: f. 19, as Opuntia ellisiana; Journ. Hered. Washington 6'': f. 15, 16, as 

 0. cacanapa; Journ. Hered. Washington 6*: f. 17, 18; as 0. subarmata; Journ. Hered. 

 Washington 5: 223. f. 13; Schulz, 500 Wild Fl. San Antonio pi. 12. 



Also insert: Dr. Small has found this plant established, after cultivation, in pine 

 lands west of Halenville, Florida. 



On page 167, vol. i, under Opuntia cantabrigiensis, add to illustrations: Gartenwelt 

 10: 560; Gard. Chron. iii. 33: 98. f. 42. 



Also insert: Professor Duncan S. Johnson found this species naturalized on sand 

 dunes at Beaufort, North Carolina, in 1899, and Doctor Small studied it there in 1922. 

 At Cambridge, England, it has passed through many winters out of doors. 



On page 168, vol. i, under Opuntia beckeriana, insert: Opuntia prostrata spinosior 

 (Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen 723. 1898) seems to have been a garden name which 

 Schumann would refer to 0. beckeriana. 



On page 173, vol. i, under Opuntia tomentosa, add to illustrations: Blanc, Cacti 82. 

 No. 2200, as Opuntia lurida; Reiche, Elem. Bot. f. 165; Gartenwelt 11: 75. 



On page 175, vol. I, under Opuntia leucotricha, add to illustrations: MoUers Deutsche 

 GaA. Zeit. 25: 476. f. 9, No. 4, as Opuntia leucacantha; Cassell's Diet. Gard. 2: 138; Bull. 

 U. S. Dept. Agr. 31: pi. 6, f. 2; pi. 7, f. 2; U. S. Dept. Agr. Bur. PI. Ind. Bull. 262: pi. 4; 



pi. 5. f- I- 



Insert: Dr. John K. Small has found this plant naturalized in a hammock south of 

 Fort Pierce, Florida, where it is reported as established during the Seminole wars. 



On page 176, vol. i, under Opuntia orbiculata, add to the illustrations: Schelle, Handb. 

 Kakteenk. 48. f. 11, as Opuntia crinifera; Gartenwelt 11: 76, as 0. lanigera. 



In third line of description on page 177 read cm. as dm. 



On page 178, vol. i, under Opuntia ficus-indica, add to illustration: Engler and Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. 3^": f. 57, h; Gard. Chron. in. 34: 89. f. 34; 92. f. 42; Karsten, Deutsche Fl. 

 887. f. 501. No. ID, ii;ed. 2. 2: 456. f. 605. No. 10, 11 ; Journ. Dept. Agr. S. Austr. 13: 764; 

 Garten-Zeitung 4: 182. f. 42, No. i; Stand. Cycl. Hort. Bailey 4: f. 2598; Watson, Cact. 

 Cult. ed. 3. f. 57. 



On page 180, vol. i, under Opuntia maxima, add the synonym: Cactus maximus Colla, 

 Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino 33: 140. 1826 (?). 



Also insert: Illustration: Mollers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 25: 488. f. 22, No. 3, as Opuntia 

 labour etiana. 



On page 181, vol. i, under Opuntia hernandezii, insert: Opuntia hernandezii first 

 appeared in De Candolle's Prodromus (3: 474. 1828). 



Also insert: Nopal silvestre Thierry (Forster, Handb. Cact. ed. 2. 929. 1885) is cited as 

 a synonym of Opuntia hernandezii. This reference is given also in the Index Kewensis. 



Also insert: Illustration: Forster, Handb. Cact. ed. 2. 930. f. 128. 



On page 184, vol. i, under Opuntia streptacantha, add to illustrations: Useful Wild PI. 

 U. S. Canada opp. 18, 108, 174, as Opuntia tuna. 



