■128 , BOTANY. jjHB ' 
stouter; d< 
with 21-25 rather sharp ribs; the large linear-oblong areola (very woollyjj night, sj 
when young) bear three kinds,of spines, first, 4 very stout, annul ated, jfRdkflfy Southed 
ones, lJ-2^' long, the 3.uppei\ones straight, the lower one hooked; second, Bigelc 
3-5 lower and usually 3 uppermost spines, slender, but straight, stiff, anB^g (Ec 
annulated, of reddish color; third, 12-20 whitish, bristle-like, flexuous, .. or ova ] } 
lateral spines: flowers 2-2long, 1£ wide, yellow, outside greenish witfit^ j n {] 
purple-brown; ovary and fruit imbricately covered with numerous (50-6j3) ;flirve j a ] 
cordate or reniform erenulate sepals; sepals of tube oblong, ciliate; petals q jj 0 ^ ro 
broadly linear, crenate, bristle-pointed; style deeply divided into 12-18 y ^ Mexi C < 
N 'linear stigmas; seeds 1" long or over, reticulate or shallow-pitted.—Southerff ^ 
uNew Mexico. > 
, this sp 
Var. Le Contei. ( JE.LeContei , Engelm.)-*—At last clavate from a slender ,., 
■ . - r . - # which var 
base; lower central spiiiemore flattened, curved or twisted, but not hooked; ^ ^ 
flower rather smaller and with fewer parts.—This is the Western form, from 
x may liav( 
South Utah and Arizona to and beyopd the Colorado River. Dr. RothrQcpiL w 
collected, at Camp Bowie, Ariz., a peculiar form (492), which may repre- ^ 
sent another variety, decipiens: globose, 1° in diameter; spines shorter and " ^ 1 
fewer, no straight spines above the 4 central ones, none longer than 1-1 2 ^ 
niches; 10-15 thin flexuous spines on side and upper end of areohen only )ase > P u 
20-25 sepals on ovary. 
pint densel 
Echinocactus polycephalus, Engelm. & Bigel. (see Watson in Bot. rose 'P ur ple 
King’s Expl.117).—From the Mojave region to Southwestern Utah. Thef^^ast 
numerous spiny-bristly sepals, and the linear, acute, yellow petals almost no 1011 by 
hidden in a dense cottony wool. the \ 
Echinocactus Wiiipplei, Engelm. & Bigel; Watson, l c. 116.— On 
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the Lower Colorado River and northward into Utah. - (I 
Cereus (EcHmooEREUs) Engelmannt, Parry; .Watson, l. c. 117.— l^Arock 
Throughout Arizona and into Utah and Southern California. Flower ^ Al< 
purple, open only in mid-day sunshine—Camp Bowie (1002), Mrs. Major wor & 
Sumner. Flower only. May be this or an allied species. "Ijj^^Buspiny p 
Cereus (Echixocereus) PHCENICEUS, Engelm—Globose or oval heads, seeds.- 
2-3' high* about 2' iri diameter, several to a great many (sometimes |)va ; ^ noti 
100) from one base, 8-11-ribbed; 8-15 slender, but straight, stiff, lamt ' { ^\ ere< 
very brittle spines in each bunch, J-1J' long, 1-3 of them more central|anc|f 1] very sj 
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