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Clavate 


Hemispheric 

Lancelate 

PEST PEAR—Name given to an Opuntia in 
Australia. 
PETAYA—Fruit from a species of Cereus and 
Echinocereus, particularly Echinocereus stra- 
mineus. (28) 
PEYOTE-—Lophophora williamsii. 
PEYOTE CIMMARONS—Ariocarpus fissuratus, 
misnomer. (29) 
PHATNOSPERNA—Pitted seeds. 
PHYMATOTHELE—Swollen tubercles. 
PICHILINGA—The common name of Neomam- 
millaria heyderi. (82) 
PINCUSHION CACTUS—Any cactus with spines. 
PIOTE BEAN—See Peyote. 
PITAHAYA OR PITAJAYA—Name given any 
fruit of a Cereus throughout Mexico. 
PITAHAYITA—Wilcoxia striata seed-pods. 
POLLEN—Yellow powder contained in an an- 
ther theca. 
PORRECT—Extended or pointed away from. 
PRICKLEY PEAR—Name applied to any Pla- 
tyopuntia. 
PROCUMBENT—Lying along the ground. 
PROLIFEROUS—Reproducing freely by offsets. 
PROSTRATE—Lying quite flat on the ground. 
PRUINOSE—Covered with a hoary powder or 
color. 
PSEUDO—False. 
PUEESCeNT—Clo.h.d with sho.t, soft, downey, 
hairs, or spines. 
PUBESCENTES—A division of cacti usually 
rich with bristles or hairy spines. 
PUNCTATE—Dotted with minute depressions. 
PUNGENT—Terminating in a rigid sharp point. 
PYRIFORM—Pear shaped. 
RADICAL—Pertaining to the root. 
RAINBOW CACTUS—Arizona; E. rigidissimus; 
New Mexico, E. chloranthus; Texas E. dasya- 
canthus. 
RECURVED—Curved backward or downward. 
REPANDUS—Uundulating. 
ROQT CACTUS—P. greggii. 
REFLEXED—Abruptly bent or curved down- 
ward or backward. 
RETUSE—Around apex with a shallow notch. 
RUGOSE—Showing wrinkles caused by sunken 
veinlets, 
SACASIL—wWilcoxia poselgeri. 
SALFERFORM—Saucer shaped. 
SCABROUS—Rough to the touch. 
SCOPIFORM—Formed like a brush. 
SERRATE—Beset with antrorse teeth. 
SERRULATE—Serrate with very fine teeth. 
SESSILE—Attached directly by the base. 
SETIFEROUS—Bristly. 
SHEATH—The covering of the spines of certain 
cacti. 
SLEND: R STEM CACTUS—Opuntia leptocaulis. 
SOLITARY—Single. 
SPATULATE—Oblong shaped like a druggists 
spatula. 
SPINE—Any needle-like growth without vas- 
cular tissue. 
SPINELET—A very small spine. 
SPINIFEROUS—Bearing spines. 
SPINULIFEROUS—Bearing minute spines. 
SUAMIFEROUS—Covered with scales. 
STAMEN—Combined filament and anther. 
STENOGONUS—Narrow angled. 
STIGMA—That part of the pistil which re- 
ceives the pollen for the fecundation of 
the ovules or female part of flower. 
STRAWBERRY CACTUS—Echinocereus ennea- 
canthus, E. rosei, etc. 
STYLE—The tube between the stigma and the 
ovary. 
SUBULATE—Awl shaped. 
TASAJILLO—Opuntia leptocaulis. 
TASAJO—Opuntia imbricata also Hylocereus 
undatus in Durango, Mexico. 
TEAT CACTUS—Any Mammillaria, Neomammil- 
laria or Corphantha. 
TERETE—Cylindrical and tapering with cir- 
cular cross section. 
TERMINAL—Growing at the end. 
TETRAGONUS—Four angled. 
THELOCACTUS—Nipple cactus. 
THORN—Any needle like growth with vascular 
tissue. A name often erroneously given to 
a spine. 
TOMENTOSE—Densely pubescent with a mat- 
ted wool. 
TREE CACTUS—Opuntia arborescens which 
means tree-like. (25) 
TRIANGLE CACTUS—Hylocereus undatus. 
TRICHOCEREUS—Hairy flowered cereus. 
TRUNCATE—Having the end square or even as 
if cut off. 
TUBERCLE—A nipple. 
TUBERCULATE—Covered with knobby projec- | 
tions or tubercles. | 
TUBEROUS—Shaped like a tuber. 
TUNA—Large edible fruit or seed-pods of the 
prickly pear. 
TUNA HUELL—Opuntia imbricata (Griffiths.) 
TUNA MIEL—Or tuna honey. ‘i 
TUNAS PASADAS—Dried tuna fruits, some- } 
times pressed into cakes. 
TUNA-QUESO—Cakes made from tunas. Queso | 
means cheese. 
TUNAS SECAS—Dried tunas for winter use. | 
TUNAE—AII cacti which bear tunas. ; 
TURBINATE—Shaped like a top. 
TURGID—Swollen beyond natural size. 
TURK’S HEAD—Cactus intortus. 
TWISTED RIB CACTUS—Hamatocactus setis- 
inus. 
UMBILICUS—The hilum of a seed. 
UNDULATE—Wavy. F 
VELAS DE COYOTE—The coyote’s candle. 
Opuntia imbricata. 
VENTRAL—Belonging to the side opposite} 
the dorsal. \ 
VISNAGA—See Bisnaga. 
VIZNAGA—Any barrel shaped large growing} 
cactus. 
VIZNAGITA—Any small globular cactus. 
WOKOWI—Lophoprora williamsii. 
XANTHOCARPUS—Having a yellow fruit. 
XOCONOCHTL!—Opuntia imbricata. 

Opuntt a 
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