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haps is not an Opuntia ) . Af er a very exact exanination of all Syno- 

 nyms, the followinf Speeles and variations appear: * 1. 

 Jussieu. 2. pigve^ulenta Pfr. with which Op . Miquelli entirely 

 a~ r ees. 3*0* floecosa Nab. Sane as Op.P entlandii and involuorata 

 Otto ( the nane involucrata could not be aeeepted; the wrd neans in 

 the Latin language rolled in ( f oliun involutun) , an H should ref er 

 here to wrapped. in wool) 4.0. ve stita Hab. a new species fron the 

 Cordillleras of Bolivia,, connletely covered with coarse cotton, much 

 more slender, prr owirg high, a^d without any cormorr traits with 0p . 

 f loccosa . 5»- 0* stellata Hab. 6. 0. stapeliae DC. 7* 0n « tunlcata 

 £c ^ n = QP * exuviata DC and var. B. tenulor Nob. = 0p . für iosa Vinol. 

 and ^ost liVely 0p. rosea DG. 8. . Op. lnbrlcata Haw. = Op. crist.ata. 

 Nob. = 0p . deeipiens DC - var. B. tenulor Nob. = 0p . exuviata B, .^.?ns - 

 1 1 or Nob. - var. *g ranosior Nob. = 0p. exuviata splnoslor DC (graoi- 

 liores) 9.0ß. Kleiniae DC - var.^fc Coeti vi^ens Nob. 10. 0. lepto - 

 cauli s DC 11.0. vir grata Nob. var^ subpatens 12.0p. r ann 1 i f era Nob. 

 (Total of 12 species and 5 varieties). Op. Poepjbigii may well be a 

 Peirescia, and the un.deternin.ed species, which Poerster states on 

 page 508» are unimportant innovations. which have no ne^nlnß;.. We are 



missinpr in Europe the Op . Hernandezii DC, a Hexican species on which' 

 seens to be 



cochnille is grown and which rather similar to 0p . vulgaris ,ac- 

 cording to the Illustration^ If the flower were not dif f erent, I 

 would consider it identical with vulgaris ; be cause I know, that 

 cochnille is beim frrowr on it, . and I remember this 0p . vulgaris in 

 the botanical garden in Madrid, where I saw it und er the nane of 

 coccinellif era , - The dif f iculty for rae now is ( since I had to se- 

 parate Napalea "genital 11 s lo n^issine exsertis" of Opuntia "genita- 

 Iiis indusis" - and because I must fore^o the hope to make theifc 

 own genus out of Cylindraceae ) - the dif f iculty, I say, is, to pre- 

 pare the best possible sequen.ee of the sections and species. The en- 



