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Cacti.— Orcutt. 



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CEREUS SUBINERMIS Hem. 

 CEREUS VIR1D1FLORUS Engelm. 



The Green-tiowered Cereus of the Rocky 

 Mountains is especially beautiful on ac- 

 count of the red, purple and white spines 

 with which the plant is covered. Flow- 

 ers numerous, quite large and showy, 

 light-yellowish-green, very hardy and eas- 

 ily grown. 



Genus CLEISTOCACTUS Lemaire. 



C. baumanni Lerai in 111 Hort viii Misc 35; 



Cact 69, based on Cereus tweedii Bot 



Mag t 4498. 

 C. coiubrinus Lem in 111 Hort viii Misc 35; 



Cact 60, is Cereus coiubrinus. 

 C 1 hod acanthus Lem in II Hort viii 



M : sc 35; Cact 61; is Echinopsis rhoda- 



cantha. 



Genus CONSOLE A Lemaire. 

 C. catacantha Lem Rev Hort (1862) 174 



Cact 91; is Opuntia catacantha. 

 C. ferox Lem Bev Hort (1862) 174; Cact 91 



is Opuntia ferox. 

 C. leucacantha Lem Rev Hort (1862) 174 



Cact 91; is Opuntia leucacantha. 

 C. rubeceis Lem, Rev Hort ix Misc 26 



(1862); Cact tO; isi Opuntia rubescens. 

 C. spinosissima Lem, Rev Hort ix Misc 



62; Cact 91; is Opuntia spinosissima. 

 Gem. a CORYPHANTHA Lemaire. 



Eased on the subg nus Coryphantha 

 Erigelmann, of Mammillaria, and 24 spe- 

 cies and one variety named, without de- 

 scriptions, in I es Cactees, 34-35. C. acan- 

 thostephfs, aulacothele, caVarata, clava, 

 eorrifera, elephantidens, erecta, LehTai- 

 ni, loricata. macromeris, otto lis, pycna- 

 cantba, raphidacantha, scheeri, schlech- 

 tendalii, and sulcolanata are presumably 

 based on species of Mammillaria of the 

 same names. C. daimonoceras is probab- 

 ly ivi. soolymoides C. consp'cua, Engel- 

 rranni, giandrligera. het romorpha, 

 Fookeri, ?nd ?ub a; ata are nomina nudi. 

 C. br^imamma, exsu f lans, impex coma, 

 a^d Nuttal! i pre na-r>ps crpdited to Le- 

 maire in Foester (Handb ed 2). C. ancis- 

 tracantha is r amed by Lemaire as a vari- 

 e'y of raphidacantha, C. glandulifera 

 aid hetenphylla Lem, in Index Kewen- 

 sis, are evident y errors. 



Genus ECHI1VOCACTUS L.ink & Otto. 



"F'owers about as long as wide. Ovary 

 cohered with sep lo d scales, naked or 

 woo 'y in iheir axis. Fruit svccuhnt or 

 sometimes dry, coverpd with persistent 

 cal x-scahs, s^mst'r-es enveloped in co- 

 riou3 v ool, and usually crowned witk the 

 persistent remnants of the flov/er. Seed 

 obliquely ob ovate, black. Embryo curved 

 over the small albumen- cotyl°dcns par- 

 are 1 to the sides of the seed. — Mostly 

 large, sometimes gigantic, globose or de- 

 pressed, or ovate, or 1 arely subcylir dric, 

 simple or verv rarely cespitose; bunches 

 O'f 1 pines on the more or less vertical ribs. 

 Flowers contiguous to and above the 

 spines, on the latest growth of the plant, 

 oft r n from the rascent woo ly areolae 

 and therefore more or less vertical, open 

 only in sunlight." — El. 

 Ec v i-ocactus acutangulus Zucc, is cory- 



nodes. 



E. abrocentrus Stiobn . ? 

 E. ACANTHION Salm-Dyck. 



"Caule globoso lasto viridi, costis nurrieroRlBHi- 

 111 is (35 40) valde eomprcHHis parurn undulatifl 

 ad pulvillos inflatis, pulvilUs conf'ertis Juniorl- 

 bus albido-velutinis, aeulein silperioribns 8ap- 

 planatis intermedio valid issimo, cum centrali- 

 bus 2subulatis bifarie patentibus, basi stramin- 

 eis superne fulvido-brunneis, inferioribus 8 

 multo gracilioribus patentibus albidis. Caulis 

 robustus, validus, diametro quadripollicari et 

 ultra, aculeie teotus pollicem ad sesquipollicem 

 longis. Unica hucusque species est in hacce 

 Sectione aculeis centralibusduobus Flores ig- 

 noti." HDed 2, 161, 31. 



ECHINOCACTUS ACUTISSIMUS O-D. 

 ECHJNC CACTUS ALBATUS Dietr. 

 ECHINOCACTUS ALTEOLENS KS, 

 ECHINOCACTUS AMBIGUUS Hildm. 

 ECHINOCACTUS ANFRACTUOSU S 



Mart. 

 ECHINOCACTUS ARRIGBNS L-O. 

 ECHINOCACTUS ASTERIAS Zucc. 



Is Astrophytum myriostigma. 

 ECHINOCACTUS BEGUINII Web. 

 ECHINOCACTUS BICOLOR Gal. 



Near San Luis Potosi, Mexico. 

 Variety SCHOTTII Engelmann. 

 Echino cactus bolansis Runge, is bi:olor. 

 ECHINOCACTUS BREVIHAMATUS E. 

 ECHINOCACTUS CALIFORNICUS Mon. 

 ECHINOCACTUS CAPRICORNUS D etr 

 ECHINOCACTUS CASTANEO.DES 



Cels. 

 Echinocactus cas'an'ens's Ho t, is bi- 



color. 

 ECHINOCACTUS CENTETERIUS Lem. 

 ECHINOCACTUS CERATITES Otto. 

 ECHINOCACTUS CHILENS1S Hildm. 

 ECHINOCACTUS CHRYSACANTHLON 



KS. 



ECHINOCACTUS CHRYSACANTHUS O. 



Globose to cylindrical, wi'h about 18 

 ribs and 10 flexuous annulated central 

 spines 2 inches long, and 4 to many slen- 

 der white radial spines. Flowers satiny 

 yellow, more rarely crimson. Cedros Is- 

 land. 



ECHINOCACTUS CONCINNUS Monv. 

 ECHINOCACTUS COPTONOGONUS Lm. 



Near San Luis Potosi, Mexico. 

 Variety MAJO< S»lm-Dyck. 



ECHINOCACTUS CORNIGERUS DC. 

 Near San Luis Potosi, Mexico. 



BCHINOC ACTUS CORY NODES Otto. 

 State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. 



ECHINOCACTUS COXII KS. 



ECHINOCACTUS CRISPATUS DC. 



ECHINOCACTUS CUMINGII Hopff. 

 Bolivia, South America. 



ECHINOACTUS CURVISPINUS Colla. 

 ECHINOCACTUS CYLINDRACEUS E. 

 ECHINOCACTUS DENUDATUS L-O. 



Brazil, South America. 

 EirpJTNOCACTUS DICHROACANTHUS 



Mart. 



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