OPUNTIA MEGALABTHEA Rose, SMC 

 50:529. Near Pachuca, Hgo. 

 OPXJNTIA MILLSPAUttMII Britton, SM 

 C 50:513 Eleuthera Island, Bahamas. 

 OPUKTIA HEI.SOKII Rose, SMC 50:516. 

 Oax, et Pue. 



OPUWTIA NEOAEBUSCULA Grif 1908: 

 260 t 23. Ar. 



OPUNTIA NIGRITA Grif 1910:169 t 24. 



Near Aguascalientes, Ags. 

 ©±*UNTIA PACHONA Grif 1910:168 t 

 22, upper f. Near Zacatecas, Mex. 

 Cx'UHTXA FAlojjIBA Rose, SMC 50:507. 

 Near Tula, Hgo. 



OPUNTIA PLUMBEA Rose, SMC 50:524. 



S Carlos Indian reserve, Ar. 



OPUMTIA POLLAKDI Britton & Rose, 



SMC 50:523. Biloxi, Miss. 



CPUNTIA PUMILA Rose, SMC 50:521! 



taxaca, on road to Mitla. 



OPUNTIA SIHCX.AIRXI Grif 1910:173 t 



2 8. Near S Antonio, Tex. 



LPTOIIA SUB AH, MAT A Grif 1909: 94 t 



11, t 2 f 1, t 13 f 4. Near Devils river, 



OPUNTIA TAYLOEI Britton & Rose, 

 SMC 50:520. Haiti. 



OPUNTIA TEXANA Grif 1909:92 t 9, t 

 13 f 1. S Antonio, Tex. 



OPUNTIA TOUMEYI Rose, CNH 12:402. 

 Tucson, Ar. 



OPUNTIA TRICOLOR Grif 1909:85 t 4. 

 Laredo, Tex. 



OPUNITA VIVIPARA Rose, SMC 52:153 

 t 12. Near Tucson, Ar. 



OPUNTIA WOOTONII Grif 1910:171 t 

 26 et 27. Organ mts, NM. 

 OPUNTIA XAHTHOGX»OCHIA Grif 

 1910:166 t 20. Near Milano, Tex. 

 PEEESKIA AUTUMNAIIS Rose, CNH 

 12:399 t 52-54, based on Pereskiopsis a 

 (Eichlam, MfK 19:22. 



Genus PERESICIOPSI3 Britton & Rose. 

 SMC 50:331. Type: Opuntia Brandegeei 

 Schum. 



P: AQUIOSA SMC 50:331, based on 

 Opuntia aquiosa Weber. Jal. 

 P: BRANDEGEEI SMC 50:331, based on 

 Opuntia B. Baja. 



P. CHAFISTLE SCM 50:331, based on 

 Opuntia C. Oax. 



P: DEGUETII SMC 50:332, based on 

 Opuntia D (Weber). Jal. 

 P: KELLEEMAi\ II Rose, SMC 50:332. 

 Trapichite, Guat. 



P: OPUNTIASPLOEA SMC 50:332. 



based on Pereskia O (DC). Mex. 



P: PITITACHE SMC 50:332, based on 



Pereskia p (Karw). Mex. 



P: PORTER! SMC 5 0:332 based on 



Opuntia P (Br). Sin. 



P. EOTUNDIPOI-IA SMC 50:333, based 



on Pereskia r (DC). Mex. 



P: SPATHUI«A£ A SMC 50:333, based on 



Pereskia s (Otto). Mex. 



P: VEEUTINA Rose, SMC 50:333. Quer- 



etaro. 



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PEINGLE, CYRUS GUERNSEY: 



The name of C. G. Pringle is little 

 known outside of certain scientific cir- 

 cles yet it is inseparably connected with 

 American agriculture, and with the flora 

 of Mexico. As the originator of the 

 Snowflake potato, and of other improved 

 varietes, of cereals and useful farm 

 plants, his memory as a benefactor of 

 his race will remain. From him Duthei 

 Burbank gained his .first skill as an 

 originator of new varieties of plants. 



In 1882 the write- first met the man, 

 a^d the friendship c mtinued. For near 

 thirty years C. G. Pringle traversed the 

 unexplored regions of Mexico, collect- 

 ing the native flora. He was adverse 

 toundue publicity and wrote htt1 ®' bu .. 

 oHried much to our knowledge of Amer- 

 ican botany. As a man he was above 

 reproach, a true and tried friend to ev- 

 ery one he met— whether a peon or a 



PI> He S was connected with Harvard Uni- 

 versity and with the University of Ver- 

 m for manv years, up to his death 

 from pneumonia,' May 26, 1911, aged 73 

 years. The Pringle herbarium, in the 



