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BOTANY. 
Another simple form, but scarcely half as large-* #&curs' in iColoraf erru ^ ^ 
longer; c 
plains, 
and possibly in Eastern Utah. 
Mamillaria Nuttallii, Eng. Smaller, globose, simple or sometim^ °^ ers ^ ro 
pjespitose, with fewer (10-20) weaker ash-colored spines; flowefs yellay^ e > a 
1-2' broad; berries scarlet, subglobose ; seeds few, black, globose,cpitted.-^ yMar* <>i 
Common on the eastern slopes of the mountains of Colorado and perhaps)®;) ^ ie 
be found in Eastern Utah. the no 
Echinocactus^Simpsoni, Eng. Simple, globose or depressedm*|al ones but 
ovate tubercles like a Mamillaria r bearing about 20 outer ash-coloredSpin jocactus pc 
and 5-10 stouter darker inner .ones, all straight and rigid; flower^Hel sinuate rib 
the top of thrust developing tubercles, small, 9-12" broad, yellowish-gre^t, often cm 
to purplish; scales on the ovary very few ; berry small, dry, with few bla ] usually del 
tuberculated seeds.—Butte and Kobe Valleys, Utah, (H. Engelm^H • fi yl, nann ; n p 
quent on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado; flowering itocactus Jo 
April and May. [Found on the Havallah, Battle andToyabe Mountains, a .i low rounclc 
above Thousand Spring Valley, Nevada, only on high rocky ridge* 7-aRl stoutish re 
feet'altitude; July, in flower. Heads 2—5 7 in diameter, often cluster^, t^. qj e C€ 
fleshy interior frequently colored, s. w.] A small variety, resembling A an( j w y 0 
of vivipara in habit, but the tubercles grooveless and fruiting at; top, 1 • ^ aQ( j ^ 
spines 4-6" long, the inner scarcely different; a larger form has much l||f George j n g Q 
tubercles and spines, often 12-14" long, the inner ones bright Ireddi: ^^ n , 
brown. (433.) ■Lfthe S Z 
Echinocactus Whipplei, Eng. & Big. . Middle-sized, globosejor 6^ 1 
with 13 interrupted ribs ; outer spines 7—11, mostly ivory-white, the low; u ^ 10 
darkish, the upper much longer, flat and often curved; central spines 4, . ' 8 * 01 
upper broader, longer, white, the others brown, the lowest hookehj^B^ ° Wers > 1 
greenish-red, with few (2-5) sepals on the ovary, 9-15" longf not quite # “'" From 
wide; seeds few, large, tubefculate—Heads 3-5' high; spines 3-20" f Ati 
O n'the lower Colorado, (Bigelow, Newberry;) ins Desert Valley| v&L. 
Sevier Eake, Utah; (H. Engelmann;) the latter with more radifM^ "hs. 
and often with more than one hooked. 
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' u ^pal 
ECHm^6ACTiJS,ppLYANCiSTEUs, Eng ; ..A .Big. , Medium-sized, Wl, 
, ^ the side: 
^HOCACTUSj,'LinV & Otto. Sepals^iCmf petals united beyond the sepal-bearing I "’ 
a short tube. ijBerry globose or juicy or dry, coWed with, scales and sometimes with wool. 
"brown orsbXack^m^yo usually clawed over a small Ifammen; cotyledons sM foliaceous, para! 
x. AS* sicles the seJl^—Globose or oval^nosjjff simple, g^rally many-ribbed^with bunchls of spii s 
the spin 
U branched, 
^ previous 
usually large, 
rand close to the spines of the same s 
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