10.235 
Echinocactus myri^stigma 
Flowering May 17, 1912; flower opening to diameter of about 4.5 cm., when 
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closed, 6.8 cm. long; ovary wholly surrounded by areoles bearing light 
gray wool, long acuminate brown bracts, these making a dense covering for 
ovary; higher up, areoles fewer; calyx tube green on upper part, lo 7 /er 
part light broivn madder, as shown in Winsor and Newton's Water Colors 
Chart; bracts grading into sepals turning from brown to creamy white tinged 
7/1 th pale green except for tips and purplish red spot underneath; 
grading into petals oblong oblanceolate , long acuminate; ovary oblong 
oval, 5 mm. long; 3 imn. in greatest diameter; no tube proper; throat begins 
6 min. above ovary, deeply funnel-shaped, lined with a rich yellow coat, 
1.5 cm. long, 14 mm. across at top; stamens numerous, attached all along 
throat, clustering around pistil; filaments creamy 7/hite; anthers aurora 
yellow, as in Winsor and Newton's Artists' Oil Colors Chart; pistil exsert 
