OPUNTIA PULCHELLA (sjX'r. HOC.) : 



ovato-clavatis; foliis minutis e basi en 

 leos albidos rectos, singnlmn loiigio 



Snit.lv deserts on Walker River; f fl. 



This is one of the smallest, as it is on 

 longs to the small section of C!«nd«> ( 

 t, but is distinct from all those known tc 

 the others have, so for as I know, yell 

 ics thick, very slightly tubereulated; lea 

 lite woolly; larger central spine on the 



.ry spines, 3-6 111 



h -vnus. but cvl 



marked by the conspicuous white-woolly areohe and their numerous pu 

 flexible, hair-like bristles, 4-6 or 7 lines long. These bristles are entirely d 

 minute barbs which otherwise invariably characterize spines and bristle 

 The thick round seeds, 2 lines in diameter, are well distinguished by a 1 

 much wider than I have seen it in any other clavate Opuntia. 

 Plate 3, Fig. 1. Part of a plant of OputUia imlchdla, showing a flower- 

 Figs. 2-4. Bunches of spines, 4 times the natural size. 

 Fig. 5. Section of a larger spine, more magnified. 

 Fig. 6. A leaf from an ovary with the axillary woolly and bristly a 



natural size. 

 Fig. 7. A fruit. 

 Figs. 8-0. Seed, 4 times magnified; fig. showing the broad rhapl 



ij leaves 2*-3J or 

 l li-ll inches in 



t obliterated; red pulp i 



•Aua.-coiu.: - 



,d in '£E£i ■ to*-* ^ «*■ of Western Nevada fro. the Trinity Moun, 



) Monitor Valley, 4-5,000 feet alt." 



