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~ eylindric ve simple or sparingly branched, om 2’ high; ribs abn, 13; are- 
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inilistinct) or spines. Seeds pea or Diack; pikes ally sien with- 
48 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 
tals often sparingly deny eee at the apex, lanceolate or linear- Janceclaiaill 
acute; stigmas 5, spreading; berry subglobose, shorter than the tuber. — 
cles, = seeds elobose, serobiettate, black.—Golden City, Greene. E 
XN LARIA VIVIPARA, Haw. Eng. Syn. 1. ¢.,p. 13. Simple, oval, the — 
alinost: er tubercles bearing fascicles of 5-8 reddish-brown fe 1S, SUI- 
rounded by 15-20 grayish ones in a single series; all straight and very — 
rigid ; the latter 5-8” long; the former even 10” long ; sowems purple, — 
often 2 oy or more in diameter, with numerous lance-subulate petals and 
fringed sepals ; berry oval, green; seed oo light- borne oot-hills: 
near Long’s Peak, eater: Red field. & 
EcHINO cactus! SIMPSONI, Eng. Simple, globos e or wv disteedaall with — 
ovate tubercles like a Mamillari ia, , bearing 20 outer ash-colored spines 
and 5-10 stouter,*darker, inner ones, all straight and rigid; tlowers from — 
the top of the just- pei te fog small, wines 12” bro oad, yéllowish- 
green to “waparcl. cales on the ovary very few ; berry small, dry, with 
few black, ty vergijated seeds. LNeat oS CityzBr andegee ; Greene, ; 
[RE ode Fim oe Torus, Eng. Syn. l. ec. p. 22. Ovate or at lena 
ole ovate- lanceolate ; spines strietly radiating, 1 12 is, with 2-6 superior, 
setaceous ones, the rest lateral, longer, the lower frequently purplish- 
brown, the others white; central one often wanting, nek se resent, stouter, — 
solitary, variegated ; flowers lateral towards the a ex, yellow, beco ming 
green ; berries ya ant small; seeds tuberculated. —Canion City, Bran- | 
degee ; Coulter. {low 
CEREUS FENDL setter ib Syn. l. cp. 25. Stems 3/8! high, nota 
many from the same base, ovate-cylindrical; ribs 9-12; areolie rather 
crowded ; spines very variable, always bulbous at base, radial ones 7-10, 
straight or curved, 6-12” long, white and brown, lower ones stronger, 
central one stout, curved above, dark- sgbedeies often Suite sages 1-2 ‘ Jong; 185 
the flowers lateral prise a top, large, 2 2-3) i n diameter, of a deep p 
ple color, diurnal; berry 1/-1}/ long, edible; pass opine. deeply He 
irregularly pitted by he: picts: res. of many of the tubercles. —Canet 
City, Brand egee ; 
CEREUS GONACANTHUS, E . & Big. Pac. RK. K., 4, 
simple or sparingly raiished” from the base, 7-ribbed ; areola large 
sh ee distant; spines robust, angled, straight or variously curved 
radial ones 8, ye ellowish, often blackish at base and apex, 8-15” long, 
the acta one much larger than the others, 14-24 long, nearly equaling | 
the central one, which is remarkably stout, ‘angular, and chaneled ; fl 
ers scarlet, open day and night.—Cafion City, Brandegee. Puidbls, Greene. 
! Ecutnocactts, Link & Otto. Sepals and pee united ee hore the se ee 
ovary into a short oem Berry globose or oval, juicy or dry, covered bron: _ ; 
sometimes with wool. Seeds brown or black ; pf i o usuall oarend ove ale 
bumen ; eee yledons aon fol gccons, arallel to the sides of the seed. Globee at 
mostly simple, Libis many ri with bunehes 01 spines on the ribs, rarely 
berculat 1; flowers near the pat _ above and close to the spines of the same e season, 
usually pany as W ide va long eon in sunshine, : 
aoe REUS, Haw. Sepals a nd pet petals un ted ik pee sepal-bearing ded iateh short, — 
ly, longtube. Berr. beset with seas (sa 
traight o 
n; cotyledons short or foliaceous, ¢ parol —— aes bri the sides of 
|, or most y P Apia or columnar, few or man. ribbed, usua 
arge, ‘sally open nee 
= long t Bh anger “can En. a Heads sr 
pat taps eee opens, Meeetly Heer we lone: Oey pa with ances 4 
spines; stigmas. green ; ; seeds _ ct alg ; cotyledons short, s1 
