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KS natpflzf III (6a) 180; Mon 187 Cereus albispinus S obs botf) (1822); HD ed 2, PI en 83 Foerster 385 Lab 341 Cereus crenulatus S HD ed 2, 45 Pf en 85 F 382 Sobsbot6(1822) Cereus crenatus Lab 341 Cereus octagonus et decagonus Hort, Pf en 85 Cereus acromelas Otto Ind cact hort Berol 1833 Curacao fide Pf en 84 45 Vaaety CKENATUS Hrt PILOCEREUS COB-RULEEOENS Lem Pilocereus andryau us Cels Cereus aetbiops Haw phil mag 1830, 109 Cereus mendory Hort fide Pf en 85 Pf en Cereup coerulescensS HD335 Pilocereus glaucesoens Lab in part 85 1862, 428 Labouret Monograph 276 K Schumann nat pflzf III (6a) 186; Mon 179 Pilocereus fossuiatus Lab rev hort iv sr 4, 25 Lemrev hort i862, 418 P 660 (1855) Croucher Card chron 1873, 983 f Pilocereus foveolaLus Lab cat Cels 1858, non Lemaire Pilocereus Wiliiauisii Lem rev hort, 1862, 428 Pilocereus Bruennowii et Kungleri Haagejr ex Poerster handb cact ed 2, 651, 671 Variety LAN; ^INOSiOR Salm BKUEN-NOWil Karl Schumann GRAUILluR KS WILLIAMS! KS All Bolivia I OGEREUS CHRYSACANTHUS Web ieiiuacan, -t^uebla, Mexico Pilocereus chrysomallus Lem, is Cephalorereus chrysomallus ride KSi P^ocerei-S co un na-tra'ani F, is Cephalocreus columna-tra ani fide KS P EC CEP BUS COMETE S i Mittl III (6a) 180; Cereus couietes Schied Hge Haage, Curd chron 1873 I f Van Houtle in PloredesSerr 13:33 2163 Foerster handb cact ed 2, 657 f KS nat pflzf Seitz? III (6a) !80; Mon 194 nat pflzf III (6a) 181; MfK 4;65; Mon 184 f 39 Cereus exerens Linkeex Pf en 99; Web diet 280 Cereus virens Pf en 99:— "C erectus simplex aris; sinubus acutis, tahdem planis; costis rotuudatis; areolis subremotis, lulvis, vix promineniibus, lanuginouis; acu;eis4— 5subula- angu brevissimis deorsum spectantibus, fulvis S47 Lab ' 359 (non DC) Cereus affinis Hort Berol, Pf en 99 Cereus warmingii hS Fl Br 204 Cereu* articulatus Hort non Pfeiffer Cereus tilophorus Pf AGZ 3:380: en 100 Cereus sublanatus S333; Pf en 100; Lab 360 Foerster handb cact 40 ed 2, 687 PiL/cereus Houlletianus Lem non houlletii Pilocereus oligogonus Foerster catSencke; hanDb cact ed2, 677 Lem rev hort 1862, 428 Pilocereus virens Lem 111 hort 1866, misc 20 i Mathss MfK 2:39 f We quote Schumann calls it , in above synonymy who a Brazilian, while Pfeiffer says Mexco! PiLOCEREUS FIMBRIATUS Lem PILOCEREUS FULVICEPS Web KS Mon 176 Pilocereus LLoppenstedtii Web in part fide KS Tehuacan, Puebla, Mexico PILOCEREUS GOUNELLEI Web PILOCEREUS HERMElNTIANUS L-C Lem et Cons 111 hort XIII Foerster handb cact ed t469 2, 666, KS Mon 186 Cereus hermentianus Monv Lem Kev hort 186, 410 111 hort VI misc Weber im cat Pfersdorff 1864 Foerster handb cact ed 2, 667 AGZ 8:339 PILOCEREUS DANTWITZII KS KS PILOCEREUS HOPPENSTEiDTlI Web Mon 190 Pilocereusjubatus S 1842, 24; ed 2,40, 183 Foerster 356 ed 2, Lab 28 Lemrev hort 1862, 427 Cereus flavif omus S ed 2, 46, 202 F C87 Labouret, Monogr347 (1853) Pilocereus flavicomus Rumpl, F ed 2, 657 Pilocereus auratus Lab Gruson cat "San Louis Potosi." ; Argentine Republic 1850 Foerster handb cact ed 2,357 KS nat pflzf 195 PILOCEREUS EXERENS Foerster387 40, 185 I ! KS KS Mon centrali Ihorizontali fusco rigido Foerster hall b cact td 2, 653 pi: PILOCEREUS DIVARICATUS Lem PI LOCBREUS ER YTHRO( EP] ALUS tis PILOCEREUS CELSIANUS Lem Lem cat Cels; Rev hortic Salm-Dyek cact HD ed 2, 22 KS MfK 4:80; Mon 1?7 Cephalocereus hoppenstedti KS nat pflzf III (6a) 181 Pvocereus hogendorpii Reg in Gartenflora, (non hoogendorpii) Pilocereus lateralis Weber Vie jo is the Mexican name for this unique! plant, the name signifying an old man, while Pilocerus Houletti is called vieja— tbe old woman the one bearing an edible fruit, the other said by the natives to feear no fruit El Viejo grows 15 to 2) feat high, rarely branching except fr©m in urie^ sustained; of equal size at the top and bottom but of an enlarged diameter between Ribs 19-25, ob- 1859, 220 — Ti tfiT Cacti.— Orcutt 33 24 tuse, intervals very shallow, the number of ribs increasing with age by bifurcation and new ones appearing above the forks Areolae one-quarter inch apart, small, young plants bearing 30 or more slender flexuous white spines *4-9 inch s long; spines at length deciduous or nearly so, the ribs often with a continuous woody ridge enclosing the areolae O r illustration well shows the beauty o K a young plant, but in no way depicts the mature growth; erect, the top sligh ly bent, and ornamentd th a mass ol whitish wool which continues en side a third of the way down— the lower o tion ye low fr age S'at s of O x ,ca and Jruebla, Mexi o (Orcutt 2CA< T S GEiISSEI Fas ECHJ NOOACTUS GRANDi CORNIS Cylindrical, rarely exceeding feet in Lem diameter and feet in height; ribs -sharp, EC R INCH ACTUS GRU^ONIT H;Fm usually tuberculate and 21 in number; ECHINOCACTUS HiEMiTACA THUS dials or more, usually 8, stout, annuMcnv Echinocactus ellipticus Lem, ECHINOCACTUS EMORYI is bicolor Engelm ; laied, terete, reddish, yellowish, white or ashy, commonly straight or curved inlong; the central straight or more or less curved downward, 2-3 inches long, otherwise like the ward, 1-2 inches radials Tehuacan P^ebla, MexPo ECT-HNCC ACTUS Hge sr HASELBERGII F Piazi;, Sou + h America BCUINOCACTUS T-TASTATUS Hpffr ICHINOC ACTUS HAYNEI OUo ECU INOCACTUS HETEROCHR' MUS Web EICWTNOCACTUS HEXAEDROPHOFUS Lem Near Pan Luis Poto?i Mexico.' ECHINOC ATUS HILCENSIS Hndm ] Gila Bend, Arizona, southward to near Guavmas Sonora (Orcutt Echinocactus equitans 2578, 2605) Scheidw, is hori- zonthaloiTus - ECHINOCACTUS ERECTOCENTRUS C ECHINOCACTUS FRINA' EUS Lem Sta:e cf R o (iianae 00 Sul, ^_asi ECHINOCACTUS HORIZONTHALONIUS Lem Near San Lu^ Potosi Mexico ECHINOCACTUS EXCULPTUS Otto ECHrNOCAUTUS HORRf^ILUS Lem ECHINOCACTUS FALCONERI Orcutt ECHTNOCACTUS HUMHTS R A Phil HYPTIACANTHUS Plant cylindrical in age, 9-12 inches in ECHINOCACTUS diameter, usually under feet high, light apple green in color, with a withered appearance (perhaps not normal); ribs tuberculate, acute, spirally inclined (hence called caracola "snail", or biznaga caracola), usually 13, to rare~:y 17, intervals narrow and deep; radial spines 10 or less, grayish white, flattened, flexuous, l-2y2 inches iong and laterally disposed; central spines 7, stout, strongly annulated, reddish brown, the upper and lower of at out equal length, divergent 1-3 inches long, terete or slightly angled, straight; the longest central erect, straight, flattened or channelled above % inch broad or less, varying from to inches in length soniP'times on the same plant, uniformly about y? inch at the tip turned downward at right angles with the main portion cf the spine, forming a short hrok Named in honor of William Falconer Type, Orcutt, No 2503:— Batamotal, Sonora, Mexico Flower and fruit will be described later, but resemble those of E Wislizeni with which the plant has perhaps hitherto been confounded ECHINOCACTUS FLAVOVIRENS Scheidw Tehuacan, Puehla, Mexico ECHINOCACTUS FORDII Orcutt inches or more in diameter, with about IS tucerculated narrow ribs closely set vvith c'vsters of stout "G'obose, ashy gray spn^s c ntra amulated, the ong est PA inches lone, and hooked; slender spines above with about 14 divergent rad a"s; tower an inch across, about 32 ro^e rvrple re'a's :'n scr es, greenish stgmata, stye tinned with ard y low at red, filaments r d a + to Near Labase, anthers orange yellow goon Head, Baja California Named for , , - ' Lem ECHINOCACTUS INGENS Zucc Plant 2-5 feet higrh, l- in d ameter, simple, or occasionally proliferous, forming enormous masses ?s much as 10 feet in d'ame'e^! R bs %-32, of en bPu-cate, acute, tuberculate-interrupted, areolae inch long, an nch apart, or, in eld plants, : ; foimi g a cent nuo is woolly rPg^ along the ribs, the o'epre se" top en.-ey tcmentose, envelop! g flower- aid the fruit Spines stout, all an aula ed straisrht, the cent' als of nearly equal length, 1% inch long, divergent, the radials three-fourths inch long or less, 3-4 above and below the centrals sometimes 2; or more additional radials laterally disposed Flower inches across, and three-fourths long; petals about 20, acute, Vj inch broad, canary yellow, tipped with a tinge of rose; about 30 long narrow acute sepals and scales on the r1 — ovary with woolly Anthers, axi's fila- ments and style rich orange yellow; stigmata 7, inch long, sp" ending, style three-fourths inch long; anthers small, filaments short Flowers deeply imbed- % ded in the dense copious wool an inch long that fills the depressed top of the plant Plant dark apole green, youngplants especially decorated with broad horizontal bands of maroon on the ribs, zebra -like rr 'he areolae on the rpre«sed, interHalmer collected it at La Paz and it is woven with adjacent chrsters, whitish or horny, long: central erect, often wanting; No 139 of the list from that place in 10-21 Contr U S Herb No catalogued by fls 3-3.5 cm long and broad, yellow; fruit oval, long, smooth, yellow ChiMr Pose, for whom it is appropriately green; seeds 1.4 named The stems pendent from rocks huahua at Comondu are sometimes feet long CONOIDEA P DC (This species and M Bale! of Magdalena Ovate-conical, simple, 3.5-10 cm high, 4-7 in simihave and Santa Margarita Islands lar flowers, fruit and seeds The seeds of diameter below with densely woolly vertex; M Halei were wrongly described as tubercles close, ova'e, 12 long, axils at first smooth; they are pitted in the same man- woolly; radials 10-16, ashy to white, straight, ner a,s those of this species."— Br Zoe 2:19 | | MAMMILLARIA — mm MAMMILLARIA mm U > m MAMMILLARIA : M/MMILLA^TA NA mm mm mm mm mm ' , mm — MAMMILLARIA MAMMILLARIA COMPACTA mm mm mm MAMMILLAFJA mm