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may-be, the yellow fl owering species could be separated from the 



red-flowering ones«. 



With Cer.coespl tosus and pectlnatus a sirailar dif f erence 



concerning the color of the f Towers seeras to exist» The Eohlnocac- 



tus pfiotlTn^ti].^ and the Ech . pecti nif eriis are one and the same spe - 



cies, which Galleotti had collected (to be paid by Kr. Vander - 



maelen in Brüssel) on his flrst trip. Scheidweiler describes the 



Ech. pectlnatus " E» multiplex, superne rumosus, cylindricus, 



laete (? r E.D. ) viridis , vertice umbelicato; costis 20 - 22 com - 



pressis, tuberculatis acutis; areolis linearibus iramersis, . obscure 

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cinereis minutlssime allioc (?*) punctatis vel pulverulenti s ; aculel s 



exterioribus 30 inaequalibus bifurle radiantibus albidid, basi' ro- 



seis f junioribus araoene roseis : contralibus tribus parvulis,rectis„ 



compressisnonnunquam basi'- confluentlb us, bruneis *; 



# an forte albido T 



(Babitat prope l*ila Pennasco, in locis temperalis) 



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Lemaire writes of hi s Echinocactus pectiniferus w E.olongo -ovatus 



umbll i catus , glauce sc e nt i - virens, verticoliter vieles tub erculata 



eostatus, sinnatus; areolis lineari-elongatis, maxime approximatis; 



aculel s blformibus trlginta et ampl ius 2k bifarie radiantibus, sub - 



incognalibus, subrecurvisy albido t ranslucidis,, forte aliquandoc ro - 



seis, centralibus k - 6 Semper abortientibus et rudimentär! is f vlx^ 



conspieuis-ypraetereafi onobus an ticisr et uno postice Inf irmo; omnibus 



rigldi ssimi s quamvi s gracillimi s<» , rti 



(|>atria > flores > frutusque lgnotl) ) 



These long though inc&mplete diagnoses are the flrst, which have 

 been given. The plant fl owered since the»; the flower is large and: 

 redri and the plants are often represented in our gardens,, and the 

 most common species of the subdivisiom I' do not believe, that even 

 in its homeland a species belonging to pectlnatus would vary from- 



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