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PILOCEREUS ALBISPINUS
Rumpl.
?Cactus lanatiiH II|il( nov gen 6tsp6:68
?Cerous lanatus DC prodr 3:404.
Pilocereus bnagei I'oselger ins.
Peru
Foerster, handb cact, ed 2, 64!).
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
H<>rt
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 7 f 1.
Van Houtle in PloredesSerr 13:33 1 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-
5
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, 6 1
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 2
w
me
•
m
PILOCEREUS HOULETTII Lem.
lse distant; spines on sterile part short,
tout, 4-6 radial S' and 1 central; the sp nes
fertile part 1-4 inchesi long, pendulous,
o'm'ng' a redd h-arr-^y be^cl. in which
h
f O'
ers a d small fruit are nearly
hidden. Seeds large, with hojked cct/1-
on
5
eco s. Sonora.
Variety AUSTRALIS K. Brandegee.
"Stems more slender and upright than
the n rth rn ferms; rus in the fertile
CEREUS HOPPENSTEDTI.
PILOCERUS LANUOIN03US Rum pi.
Pilocereus
lateribarbatus
Rumi,
ends, often as
is
Cephalocereus columna-tra'ani flde KS.
Pile cere us militaiis Port, is chrysomallus.
PILOCEREUS MORITZIANUS
CEREUS PALMER Engelm.
many
3 or 4 angl d,
high; spines in greenish-brown bunches; fruit greenis^-ye low, its areolae bearing 5-8 stout spines. Tyre, Pamer 70 of
1869 in hb Mo bot gar:!.
Sonora "—Coul-
1°-15
dm
as
10;
areolae small-
distant,
ppi.e or gland (?) relow the acute tase
areo'ae more conspicuous." Katharine Brand gee, Zoe, '5:4.
—
o
Near Guaymas,
L-C.
1
"Stems branching,
and mort
and the long sp nes
ccmmorly fewer a^d st uter; abortive
er,
Sono'ra, (Orcutt).
FILOCEREUS SCOPABI' 'S Pos.
P OCEREUS SENILIS Lem.
CEREUS SENILIS Salm.
Is Cephalocereus senilis Pf.
^TLOC^REUS STRICTTTS Pumpl.
PILOCEREUS TETEITZO Web.
PILOCEREUS URBANIANUS KS.
Cont Na hb 3: '01.
VelPzol Lem, is CephalocerePILOCEREUS PENTAEDROPHORUS Pilocereus
us melocactus fde KS.
Cons.
PII OCEREUS VERHEINEI Rumpl.
PILOCEREUS POLYGONUS KS.
CEREUS WEBER1 Coulter.
PILOCEREUS POLYLOPHUS S.
"Plant about 10 m high, with a regular
PIT OCEREUS ROYENII Pumpl.
PILOCEREUS RUSSELLIANUS Rumpl r>ande"abra form of branching (2 main
branrh°s ea.^h producing rear the base 2
CEREUS SARGENT! ANUS Orcutt.
PILOCEREUS SARGENTIANTTS Orcutt other branches, all ascend'ng), branches
PILOCEREUS
SCHLUMBERGERI and main p^em of same d:'ame er, angled
and glaucous; areolae 3-5 cm apart; spines
Web
PIT o,OFiREUS SCHOTTII Lem.
stout, bulbous at base; ra dials 10 or 11, 2-5
cm long; r-entral solitary, 6-10 cm
CEREUS SCHOTTII
Engelm.
comnres^ed,
somptimes
laterallv
Stems 8-10 fom the same base, 4-10 feet lor
+
high, 4-5 inches in diameter, ribs
4-7,
areo-
a
little
deflexed;
Powers
lateral, white, £-13
Cacti.
«5
— Orcutt.
cm
long; fruit 'as large as a small orange,' covered with small scales bearing
Type, Weber,
axillary wool and spines.
material in hb Mo bot gard. 'A few miles
south of Tehuacan', Puebla, Mexico."
Coulter, Cont Na hb 3:410.
PILOCEREUS SCOPARIUS
"Aborescens ramosus
co diametro 2-3 pollicari.
dum
Pos.
20-25 pedes altus, trun-
Ramis juniores non-
florentes 12-15 costati, costis obtusis cren-
ulatis, areolis 8-12 lin. inter se distantibus
nudis
26
most flattened
ed, the lowest usually the
and sword-liko
red, 4-5
cm
(2i-3
mm
broad):
flowers
long, with conspicuous woolly
and spine-bearing arealae over the ovary
and lower part of the calyx. Type in hb
Brandegee,, El Campo All em and and San
Gregorio,
Baja
California."— Coulter,
Cont U S Nat hb 3:389 (1 Ap 1896).
This has much the same aspect as Cereus Engelmanni, with similar variations
in the color of the spines, and bears a
similar edible fruit.
CEREUS CAESPITOSUS
CEREUS CHLORANTHUS E.
CEREUS CINERASCENS P DC.
.
subprorainentibus, aculeis radian tibus 5, cenRamise iores flores
trali uno valido pollicari.
producentes tenuiores 20-25 costati, costis humilioribus obtusioribus et multo magis confertis, areolis confertissimis, aculeis exterioribus
5-7; 10-12 lin. longis setiformibus brunneis, cenFlores rari>simi parvi subcampanu
trali uno.
lati rubicundi. Propela Soledad.— AGZ 1853, 126.
C.
CIRRHIFERU* Labmon3ll:—
"Tige rameuse, tres-prolifere, caespitose: rameaux a 5 cotes arrondies, subtuberculees, convexes; sillons aigus; areoles rondes; 10 aiguillons exterieurs tres-ouverts, adprimes, ronds,
blancs, transparents,
noduleux a
la base,
4inte-
"Low rieurs eriges,egalement noduleux a la base, de
Subgenus ECHINOCEREUS E.
and usuany cespitose p. ants, mostly with memes couleurs que les autres, chamois a la
numerous oval or cylindric heals, short base; tout contournes irreguliertment. Ramflowers, green stgmas, and spiny fruit; eaux
de 5-6 et 10 cent, de long sur 3, 3 et demi de
seeds subglobose, covered with c nfluent
tubercles: enbryo straight, with very diametre; areoles espacees de 15 mm, nues ou
sh»rt cotyledons.
garnies de tomentum court et rare; aiguillons
exterieurs, 4 cm de long; aiguilloEs interieurs,
CEREUS ACIFER Otto.
Echmocereus
acit'er
i
em
tact
demi a 5 cm de long; tous noduloux et
chamois a la base, blancs, transparents, contournes, ques-uns contournes en forme de vrille
s'appliquant sur la plant.
Fleur tres-belle,
grande, rouge cramoisi vif, dit-on. Mexique."
4 et
57.
Echinocereus durangensis Pos ex F ed
2, 799.
Variety BKEVISPINULUS Jac.
Variety DU ANGKJSsIS Hort.
Variety TENi. ISSPINUS Jac.
CTENOIDES E.
C. adustus E, is pectinatus var?
E.
C BLANCKil Pos AGZ 1853, 134:—
Echinocerens degandii Rebut cat.
"C. e viridi nigiicans 5-8 poll altus diametro
Echinocereus dasyacanthus Lem cact 57.
sesqiii pollicari apice attei.uatus, costis 8-10 verPlant 5-12 inches high, densely covered
mamuiaegibbi?
decurreniibus,
aieolis
ticaliter
lormibus in ertis, nudis, aculeis exteoribus 8-10 with numberless delicately colored spines,
and bearing large s'howy orange yellow
semipollicaribu-. fuscis, summis miuimis, cen- flowers.
El Paso, Texas, and Mexico.
traliun .pollicari. Prope Camargo.''
Variety
Coul er.
"Differs in the remote areolae (1.5 cm
E.
apar*), fewer spines (11 radials and 4 cenEchin ccreus fcerlatidieii Lem cact56.
trals), which are much stouter, 10-12
Jlon
256.
KS nat 185:
long, radiating, scarcely (if at all) pectiStems iy2 -Q inches long, an inch thick, nate, and larger seed (1.5
in diameter).
CEREUS
CEREUS DASYACANTHUS
NEO MEXICANUS
CEREUS BERLANDIERI
mm
mm
bearing sweet-sented purple flowers 2-4 Type. Wr'ght 3P6 in hb Mo bot gard.
Southeastern
New Mexico."— Coulter.
inches in diameter; a native of southern Cont Na hb 3:?84.
Texas and Mexico.
CEREUS DUBIUS E..
CEREUS BRANDEGrEl
Coulter.
or more across,
to many cylindrical
heads mostly 6 or 8 inches high, iy2 -2 in
diameter, with 8 or 9 interrupted, strongly tubeicu'ate r.b
The poung spines
frequently tinged with brilliant magenta,
the older spines variable in color, often
of an ivory white with centrals of a deep
Caespitose, often
consisting of iew
2 feet
•.
magenta— making a very handsome
effect.
"Spines at
first
color-
variegated
and reddish, becoming more or
1
,
dark
less ashyblack; radials 10-16, rigid, terete, radiant,
Echinocereus duhius Fed
2,
CEREUS EHRENBERGI
787
KS mon276.
Pfeiffer.
Suber^ct, flaccid, green; 6 obtuse repand-tuberculatf* ribs, areola? subremote, with short
white wool; 8-10 radial spines, 4 longer erect
centrals, all slender, rigid, light yellow.
Real
del Monte, Mexico.— Pf
1840, 282.
AGZ
CEREUS ENGELMANNI
Parry.
Engelmann's cushion cactus. Heads
eral (sometimes,
sev.
though rarely, a hundred,) 4
mostly uniform, 8-12 mm long; centrals
almost a'ways 4, very stout and promi- to 12 inches high, cylindric or ovate, with 11
nent, 3-4 cm long, cruciate, conspicuously to 13 ribs bearing bunches of about 13 pale
angled and compressed, sometimes twist- radiating spines, and about 4 darker (yellow.
"
iTTT
27
Cacti.— Orcutt.
tmywn
or black), stout and angular, straight
or curved central spines, 1 to 3 inches long.
Flowers very numerous, bright magenta, often
i
inches across, followed by delicious fruits,
with much the same flavor of a strawberry,
red, pulpy, filled with
black seeds.
Utah,
California, Baja California and Arizona.
CEREUS ENNEACAN1HUS
CEREUS PENDLERI E.
E.
Bot mag t 6533; Weber diet 278.
Echinocereus fendleri F ed 2, 801.
A queer irregular caespitose plant of
Arizona, New Mexico and Sonora, rarely
more than
12
heads in a cluster, stems
3-4
inches in diameter and about 6 inches
high, distinguished by the one usually
black central spine, which often curves
upward.
Flowers magenta colored.
CEREUS GLO'MERATUS E, is C. Maritimus Jones.
CEREUS KNIPPELIANUS Orcutt.
28
fornia."—Jones,
(S 1^83).
Am
naturalist
17:973
Cereus glomeratus et flaviflorus E. C.
sanborgianus?
C. maritimus Coulter, in
part.
CEREUS MOJAVENSIS
CEREUS PACIFICUS E.
Cereus phoeniceus
Engelm.
var.
pacificus
En-
gelm, MS.
"Plant cespitose, 1-4 feet in diameter,
few to 500 short stems (6-9 inches long and
2-2% inches in diameter) in each, forming
dense oval cushions; stems with 10-13 obtuse ribs, shallow intervals, and an equal
number of internal ligneous fibers; radial
spines 1-12 and of an average length of
one-fourth inch, the 4 central spines larger, three-fourths to 1 inch long, slender,
white; flower an inch across, icluding the
ovary iy2 inches long, the oblong spatulate sepals bright red with a broad pur-
nyd vein; ovary and fruit with 25-30
spiny areolae; fruit fleshy with numerous
small seed; stamens slender, as long as
sepals; anthers small, red; style threefourths inch long, stigmata 6-8, greenish.
plish
Echinocereus kndppelianus Liebn.
Ml'K 5:159, 170; KS u.oii 222 147.
E. liebnerianus 'Carp' Bait cact jour 2:262.
CEREUS LEONENSIS Orcutt.
Echinccereus leonens s Maths.
CEREUS LONGISETUS E.
Echinocereus longisetus Lem cact 57.
Is viridiflorus tide Orcutt rev 32.
—Or
purple, slender-tubular, 3-5 cm long; fruit
and spiny. Type unknown.
543;
W
Type
Lower
2:46 (Je 18£6).
locality, near
California.
Todos Santos bay,
CEREUS PECTINATUS
E.
Variety CENTRALIS Coulter.
CEREUS MAMILLATUS Hge.
"Plant 6-8 cm high; centrals usually 4,
the lowest very short (3-4 mm) and corCEREUS MARGINATUS DC.
rect, the upper
or 3 as long as the radi"Stem simple or branching at apex, als (sometimes 2longer),
and recurved uperect, dark green, 5-7.5 cm in diameter, ward. Type, Wilcox
of 1894 in Na hb. Arribs 5-7, obtuse, with acute intervals, wool- izona,
near Fort Huachaca."— Coulter,
ly through the whole length on account of Cont Na hb 3:386.
the con uent areolae; spines 7-9, short (4-6
mm) and conical, r.gid, grayish (younger CEREUS POLYACANTHUS Engelm.
ones purplish-black, the central scarcely
Echinocereus polyacanthusF ed 2, 790 f.
distinct from the raet); flower brownish
Cereus leeanus Hooker bot mag 1 4417; Hems
globular
From San Luis Potosi southwest throughout Mexico. The stem is often covered
with a woody crust, and the woolly confluent areolae are often double. It is said
to be freuently used for hedges in southern Mexico."— Coulter, Cont Na hb 3:399.
Cereus gemmatus Zuce ex Pfr Enum 96.
M. E. Jones.
"Caespitose, heads 5-230 in a bunch,
whicn is often 2-3 feet in diameter and a
foot h'gh; each plant cylindrical, oa'e
or in small specimens almost round, 1%-
CEREUS MARITIMUS
Weber
diet 278.
Echinocereus leeanus Lem cact
Cereus multicostatus Cels cat.
Cereus pleigonus Lab mon 317.
57;
F
ed2,828«
CEREUS POSELGERIANUS
A. Lke.
Fchinocereus poselgerianus A Lke AGZ 1857,
239; F ed 2, 77.3; KS nat 185: mon 257 (non pos-ri).
CEREUS PROCUMBENS E.
CEREUS RIGIDISSIMUS
Engelm.
Cereus pectinatus, var? rigidissimus
Am ac pr 3:279; Mexican boundary R,
El
31;
4
collected writings
principal
Echinocereus candicans of catalogs.
The R-.:nbow Cactus of Southern Arizona and Sonora is noted for the beautiful
inches long, three-fourths to V/z wide;
sp nes 4, straight, angled and
twisted] at base, 1-1% Irenes
long, beneath these are 8-10 very short
are
either
straight or
spines which
hooked; spines light brown, except when
young, then red at base, springing from
a very short tut cop'ous wooi; flowers
light yellow, about j% inches long and
petals
oblanceolate or obovate,
wide;
rounded, margii irregular: ovary obovate, sessile or short stalked, covered
with bunches of white or yellow, often
hooked, short spines and crisped wool;
fruit not mature. Encenada, Baja Cali-
somewhat
136,
195.
and varied coloring of the all radiating
and interlocking, extremely rigid and
acute spines, the latest ones of each season being rose-colored, and the earliest
ones a pale yellowish, thus forming variegated rings around the stems. Flowers
2%-3 inches high, 2 or 3 in diameter.
CEREUS ROEMERI E.
CEREUS ROEITERT E,
CEREUS STRAMINEUS
Engelm.
Cacti.— Orcutt.
39
CEREUS SUBINERMIS Hem.
CEREUS VIR1D1FLORUS Engelm.
of the Rocky
especially beautiful on account of the red, purple and white spines
with which the plant is covered. Flowers numerous,
quite large and showy,
light-yellowish-green, very hardy and easis
grown.
ily
Genus CLEISTOCACTUS Lemaire.
C. baumanni Lerai in 111 Hort viii Misc
Cact
Mag
69, based
t 4498.
Caulis
multo gracilioribus patentibus albidis.
robustus, validus, diametro quadripollicari et
35;
on Cereus tweedii Bot
Lem in 111 Hort viii Misc 35;
Cact 60, is Cereus coiubrinus.
C hod acanthus Lem in II Hort viii
sc 35; Cact 61; is Echinopsis rhoda-
C. coiubrinus
M
1
:
cantha.
Genus
CONSOLE A
"Caule globoso lasto viridi, costis nurrieroRlBHiis (35 40) valde eomprcHHis parurn
undulatifl
ad pulvillos inflatis, pulvilUs conf'ertis Juniorlbus albido-velutinis, aeulein silperioribns 8applanatis intermedio valid issimo, cum centralibus 2subulatis bifarie patentibus, basi stramineis superne fulvido-brunneis, inferioribus 8
111
The Green-tiowered Cereus
Mountains
3o
Lemaire.
ultra, aculeie teotus pollicem ad sesquipollicem
longis. Unica hucusque species est in hacce
Flores ig-
Sectione aculeis centralibusduobus
noti." HDed 2, 161, 31.
ECHINOCACTUS
ECHJNC CACTUS
ECHINOCACTUS
ECHINOCACTUS
ECHINOCACTUS
ACUTISSIMUS
O-D.
ALBATUS Dietr.
ALTEOLENS KS,
AMBIGUUS Hildm.
ANFRACTUOSU S
catacantha Lem Rev Hort (1862) 174
Cact 91; is Opuntia catacantha.
C. ferox Lem Bev Hort (1862) 174; Cact 91
is Opuntia ferox.
Mart.
C. leucacantha Lem Rev Hort (1862) 174
ECHINOCACTUS ARRIGBNS L-O.
Cact 91; is Opuntia leucacantha.
C. rubeceis Lem, Rev Hort ix Misc 26 ECHINOCACTUS ASTERIAS Zucc.
(1862); Cact tO; isi Opuntia rubescens.
Is Astrophytum myriostigma.
C. spinosissima Lem, Rev Hort ix Misc
ECHINOCACTUS BEGUINII Web.
62; Cact 91; is Opuntia spinosissima.
ECHINOCACTUS BICOLOR Gal.
Gem. a CORYPHANTHA Lemaire.
Near San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
Eased on the subg nus Coryphantha
Erigelmann, of Mammillaria, and 24 spe- Variety SCHOTTII Engelmann.
cies and one variety named, without deEchino cactus bolansis Runge, is bi:olor.
scriptions, in I es Cactees, 34-35. C. acanthostephfs, aulacothele, caVarata, clava, ECHINOCACTUS BREVIHAMATUS E.
C.
eorrifera, elephantidens, erecta, LehTaini, loricata. macromeris, otto lis, pycnacantba, raphidacantha, scheeri, schlechtendalii, and sulcolanata are presumably
based on species of Mammillaria of the
same names. C. daimonoceras is probably ivi. soolymoides
C. consp'cua, Engelrranni,
giandrligera.
het romorpha,
Fookeri, ?nd ?ub a; ata are nomina nudi.
C. br^imamma, exsu lans, impex coma,
a^d Nuttal! i pre na-r>ps crpdited to Lemaire in Foester (Handb ed 2). C. ancistracantha is r amed by Lemaire as a varie'y of raphidacantha,
C. glandulifera
aid hetenphylla Lem, in Index Kewensis, are evident y errors.
f
ECHINOCACTUS CALIFORNICUS Mon.
ECHINOCACTUS CAPRICORNUS D etr
CASTANEO.DES
ECHINOCACTUS
Cels.
Echinocactus
cas'an'ens's
Ho
t,
is
bi-
color.
ECHINOCACTUS
ECHINOCACTUS
ECHINOCACTUS
ECHINOCACTUS
CENTETERIUS Lem.
CERATITES Otto.
CHILENS1S Hildm.
CHRYSACANTHLON
ECHINOCACTUS CHRYSACANTHUS O.
KS.
Globose to cylindrical, wi'h about 18
and 10 flexuous annulated central
Genus ECHI1VOCACTUS
ribs
cal x-scahs, s^mst'r-es enveloped in coriou3 v ool, and usually crowned witk the
persistent remnants of the flov/er. Seed
obliquely ob ovate, black. Embryo curved
over the small albumen- cotyl°dcns parare to the sides of the seed. Mostly
large, sometimes gigantic, globose or depressed, or ovate, or arely subcylir dric,
simple or verv rarely cespitose; bunches
O'f
pines on the more or less vertical ribs.
Flowers contiguous to and above the
spines, on the latest growth of the plant,
oft r n from the rascent woo ly areolae
and therefore more or less vertical, open
only in sunlight." El.
Ec v i-ocactus acutangulus Zucc, is corynodes.
ECHINOCACTUS COPTONOGONUS Lm.
L.ink & Otto. spines 2 inches long, and 4 to many slen"F'owers about as long as wide. Ovary der white radial spines. Flowers satiny
cohered with sep lo d scales, naked or yellow, more rarely crimson. Cedros Iswoo 'y in iheir axis. Fruit svccuhnt or land.
sometimes dry, coverpd with persistent ECHINOCACTUS CONCINNUS Monv.
—
1
1
1
—
E. abrocentrus Stiobn
E.
ACANTHION
.
?
Salm-Dyck.
Near San Luis
Variety
MAJO<
Potosi, Mexico.
S»lm-Dyck.
ECHINOCACTUS CORNIGERUS
Near San Luis
DC.
Potosi, Mexico.
BCHINOC ACTUS CORY NODES
Otto.
State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
ECHINOCACTUS COXII KS.
ECHINOCACTUS CRISPATUS DC.
ECHINOCACTUS CUMINGII Hopff.
Bolivia, South America.
ECHINOACTUS CURVISPINUS Colla.
ECHINOCACTUS CYLINDRACEUS E.
ECHINOCACTUS DENUDATUS L-O.
Brazil, South America.
EirpJTNOCACTUS DICHROACANTHUS
Mart.
'
.
'
-.
Cacti.— Orcutt.
3i
32
ECHIXOCACTUS DURANGENSIS Rge. Lyman M. Ford, of San Dingo, who has
ECHINOCACTUS
EBEN ACANTHUS tal-en a gnat interest in ca-ti. Apparsame p'ant wa?
ently the
Mor.v.
ECHINOCACTUS ECHIDNA P D-C.
ECHINOCACTUS ECHINOIDES Lem.
Bolivia, South
America
1S?4,
foim
distrib "t?d in
ay. as a
from near San Ou ntin
of E.
1
peninsulae."— Orcutt Rev
81;
53 (.nomefl).
EICHINOCAOTUS GIBBOSUS P DC.
ECHINOCACTUS EHRENBERGII Pf.
Argentine Republic.
ELECTRACANTHUS ECH1NOCATUS
GLADTATUS S
Lem.
EC HINCCACTUS
>iCHINOCACTUS GLAUv US K S.
E,CPiIN' >CA< T S GEiISSEI Fas.
ECHJ NOOACTUS
GRANDi CORNIS
Cylindrical, rarely exceeding 2 feet in
Lem.
diameter and 6 feet in height; ribs -sharp, EC R INCH ACTUS GRU^ONIT
H;Fm.
usually tuberculate and 21 in number; ra
ECHINOCACTUS HiEMiTACA .THUS
dials 5 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 1 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 2 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 3 upper and 3 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 1 to 6 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,
6
ashy gray spn^s. 4 c ntra amulated,
the ong est PA inches lone, and hooked;
2 slender spines above with about 14 divergent rad a"s; tower an inch across,
about 32 ro^e rvrple re'a's :'n 2 scr es,
9 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
,
1
,
-
'
Lem.
ECHINOCACTUS INGENS
9
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 1
inch long, an nch apart, or, in eld plants,
:
1
;
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 4 cent' als of nearly equal
length, 1% inch long, divergent, the radials three-fourths inch long or less, 3-4
above and 3 below the centrals sometimes 2; or more additional radials laterally disposed.
Flower 2 inches across,
1 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
1
—
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 r
in
mak n T 'dulces.' S &
plants are sa d to be annually used in the
n^t^e crnfectionery ^oos.
Mrs. Anna B. NPkols rrentions a single
plant sent to Europe that we'ghed four
-tn-^p!
Dip. C. C. Parry ^ites the wool'v or
silk-1'ke substance p o'ucei si abundantly at its depressed summit, as col1
J
:
.
M
;
Cacti.
33
— Orcntt.
Ucted nd employed 'or stuffing- pillows,
and Don Louis Eschauzier complains of
having had to pc; sp'rus cut ol b^ds
made of this material. Ribs said to \ ary
from 20 to .0 n numoer. Gj eat est recorded height 9 feet, diameter 9% feet.
;
-
ECHINOCACTUS INTERTEXTUS Em.
ECHINOCACTUS JOHNSONII Engelm.
34
KOI INOCACTUS Ml
!OM K S W-irr.
Weber, Bios did 804. K Br Zoe 5:5.
Mammillaria micromeris E. Epithelantha micromeris Weber!
<
I
ECHINOCACTUS
'
I
I
:
I
MICROSPERiMUS
Web.
Argentine Republic.
EICHINOCACTUS MINUSCULUS Web.
Argentine Republic.
Johnson's hedghog cactus was named
Mormon ECHINOCACTUS 'MITIS R A Phil.
for J. E. Johnson, an early
MULTICOSTATUS
naturalist, who discovered it about S. ECU INOCACTUS
Hlldm.
George in southern Utah. It is a
BCHINOCACTUS MULTI^LOBUS Hook
rare and handsome plant, 4 to 7 inches
ECHINOCACTUS MURICATUS Otto.
high, oval, 3 to 5 inches in diameter,
Brazil, South America.
densely covered with stout reddish- EC~INO'CAlCTUSl MUTABILIS F.
gray spines turning deep red when
Peru. South America.
wet. The flower is about 2% inches ECHINOCACTUS NAPINUS R A Phil.
broad, of a rose purple normally, but ECHINOCACTUS
NETRELIANUS
Monv.
some plants which opened their flowers
while packed in a box away from the ECHINOCACTUS NIGRICANS D'e r.
light leave light yellowish-green petals ECHINOCACTUS OBVAILATUS P DC.
marked with deep maroon at base. ECHINOCACTUS OCCULTUS R A Phil.
Chile, South America.
fiilaAnthers pale primrose yellow;
ECHINOCACj
US ODIERI Lem.
ments V2 inch lond, the inner ones
ECHINOCACTUS
CLIGACANTHUS S.
white, outer ones reddish. Growing in
out-of-the-way desert places in Ne- ECHINOCACTUS ORCUTTII Engelm.
"Hea'ls cyl'ndrical, 10-18 inches in divada, Arizona, and California, it costs
bulging in the middle, growing single or
much trouble to secure this beautiful ame'er
and 2-3% feet high, sometimes
—
species.
ECHINOCACTUS JUSSIEUI Monv.
ECHINOCACTUS KRAUSEI Hildm.
ECU INOCACTUS KUNZEI F.
ECHINOCACTUS LAMELLOSUS Dietr.
ECHINOCACTUS LECONTEI Engelm.
Plant 3-4 feet high, about one-third that
in diameter, clavate; flower 2 inches long,
lemon yellow.
Tyne locality on the lower parts of the Gila and Colorado rivers,
and in Sonora.' The Mohave and Colorado Desert plants, usually referred to this
species, seem to me distinct.
This now
seems to me distinct from either E. Wislizeni or E. oylindra^eus.
Our colored portrait fairly well reprea young plant from Arizona, but
does not show the distinguishing chara?sents
tf
ristirs.
1
cr'm^on, s°aly, wPh numerous
small seeds "—Or
2 :46 (Je 18^6).
Tvpe locality: Palm valley, Lower Cal-
puLy,
iforn
W
a.
ECHINOCACTUS CRNATUS P DC.
ECHINC CACTUS OTTONIS L O.
Brazil,
South America.
ECHINOCACTUS PAMPEANUS
Speg-
a^z.
ECHINOCACTUS PAPYRACANTHUS E.
ECHINOCACTUS PARRYI E.
LEUCACANTHUS ECHINOCACTUS PENINSULAE Eng.
ECHINOCACTUS LENINGHAUSII
Brazil,
often cesuitose, more rarely proliferous at
base, with 13 when young, to usually 20 or
22 obtuse tuberculafe ribs and a woolly,
spineless, depressed top; spines stout, red dish, stra'ght or recurved, all annulate I,
usually 9 radiating and 4 stouter central
ones; flowers deep
dull
crimson with
greenish or lighter colored margins to the
petals, 2 inches long, otherwise as in E.
virdescens: stigmata green, 16-20; fruit
KS.
South America.
ECHINOCACTUS
Zucc
EPTJTNOCACTUS LIMTTUS Engelm.
ECHINOCACTUS LONGIHAMATUS Gal.
ECHINOCACTUS LOPHOTHELE S.
ECHINOCACTUS McDOWELLII Rebut.
ECHINOCACTUS MACRODISCUS Mart.
Near San Luis
Potosi, Mexico.
ECH'NOCACTUS MALLETIANUS Lem.
ECHINOCACTUS MARGINATUS S.
Globose to
rarely over 18
rarely attaining a
T-eig '!. of 8
12-21 compressed tuberculated ribs set with clusters of dull
red spines; centra's 7, s + out, the stoutest
not rarely 4-6 inches long and ^ inch
inches
1
broa.rl
in
cylindrical,
diameter,
fe"t; the
hoiked.
ECHINOCACTUS
Lem.
Near San Luis
PENTACANTHUS
Potosi. Mexico.
HINOCACTUS PEPINIA.NUS Lem.
EiCHINOCACTUS MATHSSONII Berge. ECIHNO CACTUS PFEIFFERI Zucc.
ECHINOCACTUS
MEGALOTHELOS ErHINCCACTUS PHILIPPII KS.
Sr icke.
ECU INOCACTUS PHYLL ACANT7-IUS
Paraguay Republic, South America.
Man.
ECHINOCACTUS MONVILLEI Lem.
BO INOCACTUS PHYMATOl HELOS
Bolivia,
South America.
Paraguay Republic, South America.
Elf
i
i
Pos.
Cacti.— Orcutt.
35
36
ECHINOCACTUS SENILIS R A
ECHINOCACTUS PILOSUS
Gal.
Potosi. Mexico.
Phi'.
Amer ca.
ECHINOCACTUS PLACENTIFORMIS ECHINOiCACTUS SETISPINUS E.
KS.
ECHINOCACTUS S1LERI Engelm.
ECHINOCACTUS POLYANCISTRUS EB ECHINOCACTUS SIMPSONI h nyelm.
The Hermit cactus, so-called because
Hedgehog Cactns of Colorado; the
ranging
from white throi gh
spines,
It is rare to find more than one in a
Near San Luis
place, is a strikingly beautiful
Chile,
cactus
South
shades of straw, yellow and brown, nearhide the plant;
ly
flowers
shell-pink
to
have sen only on the Mohave bright rose in color.
desert in its wild state. The largest Variety MINOR Engelmann.
Button or Snake Cactus; snines arrangplant I have seen is 18 inches high and
clusters; flow-
which
I
inches in diameter; each tubercle
bears three to seven hooked, round,
brownish-pink spines, with which are
interspersed fewer ivory white spines,
not hooked, very pleasing in contrast.
Flower over 2 inches long, of equal
width, petals bright magenta, green at
green,
base, filaments and stigmata
anthers white. They were once catalogued at $15 apiece, and are still rare
in 'collections, unfortunately seldom'
from
transplanting
long
surviving
their native sands. Too much moisture soon proves fatal.
4
ECHINOCACTUS POLYCEPHALUS
E-
Heads many from a sL.gls b se, ^-2%
feet high, globose to cyiindiic,. rios io-2,1,
acute: circular areolae beaiing 8-12 stout
ed in beautiful star-shaped
ers pale rose.
ECHINOCACTUS SINUATUS Dietr.
ECHINOCACTUS SMITHII Much.
Near San Luis Po f osi. lV'eidc©
Schinocaotus tetracrmth- s hm,
Sel-
13
owii.
ECHINOC ACTU S
Lem
SUBM Ml MULC S
S
South America.
ECHINOCACTUS
ECHINOCACTUS
ECHINOCACTUS
ECHINOCACTUS
SUBNIGER Pos.
TABULARIS C
TETRAX PHUS Otto.
TEXENSIS Hoepf.
-.Is.
Echinocactus tricolor Hort, is bice lor.
Echinocactus tricornis. Monv, is alt eo ens
1
ECHINOCACTUS
TRICUSPIDATU8
Scheidw.
1
compressed annulated curv.d reddish
gray spines, ad radial, er 4 stouter central ones: flowers enveloped in a mass of
dense white wool, iy2 inches ^ng, p^a o
about 30, lance-linear, yellow; about 10
rigid dark pointed ee^als upon the ovary,
those of the tube
hidden m the woo
similar and eaually numerous; stigmas
linear; fruit dry, fnli of angular
8-11,
wrinkled and minutely tuberculate seeds
long. Gravelly soil on the Mohave
4
and Colorado' deserts, :'n California, flow.
,
mm
ering in F, fruiting in Mr.
EICHINOCACTUS POTTSII
S.
ECHINOCACTUS TROLLIETI
Rebut.
Is unguispinus.
EiCHINOCACTUS TULENSIS Pos.
ECHINOCACTUS TURBINI a ORMIS
Pf.
ECHINOCACTUS UNCINATUS Gal.
ECHINOCACTUS UNGUISPINUS Engm
EiCHINOCACTUS VILLOSUS Lem.
EICHINOCACTUS VIRIDESCENS Nrtt.
The Turk's Head
cactus, that occurs at San
Diego, California; very variable, but usuallydepressed, less than a foot in diameter, with
strong, annulated reddish spines; 13 to 21
ribs; fruit greenish or sometimes tinged with
magenta, very sour, enclosing numerous black
seeds.
ECHINOCACTUS PUMILUS Lem.
ECHINOCACTUS WHIPPLEI E. & B.
ECHINOCACTUS RECURVUS L-O.
Oaxaca, Mexico.
Whipple's hedgehog cactus is only 2
RINCONADENSIS to 5 inches high, ovate-globose, charECHINOCACTUS
Pos.
ECHINOCACTUS ROBUSTUS
L-G.
Tehuacan, Pcebla, Mexico
ECHINOCACTUS SAGLIONIS
Argentine Republic.
Gels.
acterized by seven compressed white
radial spines and four broad hooked
central spines. Flower 1% inch long,
petals and filaments pale straw color,
the style and seven stigmata green.
ECHINOCACTUS SAUSSIERI Web.
EICHINOCACTUS SCHICKENDANTZII ECHINOCACTUS WILLIAMSII
Web.
Lem.
Anhalonium williamsii oerster handb 233
Argentine Republic.
Lophophora williamsii et var. lewinii Coulter
ECHINOCACTUS SCHILINZKYANUS nathbeont
3;131.
F Hge jr.
The Mescal Button, or Turnip cactus,
Paraguay Republic, South America.
ECHINOCACTUS SCHUMANNIANUS as it is sometimes called (which forms
Nic.
the type of Coulter's genus LophopParaguay Republic, South America.
hora) is a small spineless plant with
ECHINOCACTUS SCHEERII Sm-Dyk. pretty rose-colored flowers. The plant
ECHINOCACTUS SCOPA L-O.
rarely exceeds 3 inches in diameter,
Brazil, South America.
little appearing above the surface of
ECHINOCACTUS SELLOWII L-O.
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EiCHINOPSIS SIMPLEX Niedl
EIC'E
sOPSIS 01 (jAitDll L'Her.
ECHINOPSIS TUBIFLORiA Zucc.
l
!
Variety
nkjihsimna. KS.
Eichlniopsls
fide
turbinata Zucc,
is
gemmata
KS.
ECHINOPSIS VALIOA Monv.
Paraguay Republic, South America.
V.-i.rictv
KORBESII R. M(;y.
Ei( 'III NOPS1 :S
W ELK ENS M Hort.
WIPPERMANNII Elchinop'sis
zucoarinii (zuceatiniana)
prepared from the plant by
chemists.
ECHINOCACTUS
Mueh.
is tubiflora fide KS.
Engelm. Epithelanitha micromeris Web, is
Tourmey.
mi 11 aria micromeris Engelmann.
Engelmann.
ECHINOCACTUS WISL1ZENI
ALBISPINA
DBCIPIENS
Variety
Variety
Pf,
Mam-
Genns EFIPHYLLVH PfeJffer.
Genus ECHINOCEREUS Engelmann. EPIPHYLLUM ALTENSTEINII Pfr.
Included under the genus Cereus.
E. Berlandieri Lem, is Cereus Berlandieri E.
E. Blankii Palm, is Cereus Blankii Pos.
Echinocereus conglomeratus P, is Cereus
EPIPHYLLUM
EPIPHYLLUM
EPI HYLLUM
EPIPHYLLUM
EPIPHYLLUM
polyacanthus.
Echinocereus leeanus Lem,
polyacamthus.
Echinocereus leonensis Maths,
Inch, Crab, or Lobster Cactus; a native
of Brazil, popular ps a house plant.
Cereus
is
Cereus
is
leonensis.
E. Leptacanthus KS,
thus S,
is
Cereus leptacan-
Cereus
is
MerKeri.
Echinocereus paucispinus Lem, is Cereus
polyacanthus.
E. proeumbens Lem, is Cereus procumbens E.
E. pulchellus KS, is Cereus pulchellus Pf
E. fcaim-Dyckianus Scheer, is Cereus
;
Salm-Dyckianus Web.
E. Scheeri Lem, is Cereus Scheeri S.
E. subinermis S, is Cereus subinermis.
E. tuber osus Rumpl, is Cereus tuberosus
Pos.
Genns ECHINOPSIS Zuccarini.
Included under the genus Cereus.
ECHINOPSIS AMOBNI3SIMA Wend.
ECnlNOPgli CAT iMAR'CE'NSIS Web.
ECHINOPSIS CINNABARINA Lab.
Boliv a, South America.
BCH'NOPSIS DKOEGEiANA Berge.
ECHIisOPSIS D CIS-PAULI F.
ECiilNOPS'S BYRIBSII Zucc.
ECHINOPSIS PORMO'SA Jac.
ECHINOPSIS GLMMATA KS.
Brazil. South America.
ECHINOPSIS HUOTTIT Lab.
ECHINOPSIS KUOTTII Schlumb.
ECHINOPSIS LAGEMANNII D:etr.
ECHINOPSIS LEUCANTHA Vv alp.
ECHINOPSIS MULLERI. A
blooming
early,
hybrid, of rapid
its large
justly called the
and with
satiny rose-colored flowers
is
finest of its class.
ECHINOPSIS MULTIPLEX
B-rPZil, South America.
ECHINOPSIS NIGRICANS
Zucc.
;
Brazil,
South America.
PBNTLANDII S.
PUDANTII Hort.
America.
RHODACANTHA
ROIILANDII Hort.
SAL MIAN A Web.
S.
Vajrfefy R"TD' ES'I KS.
Er'TTTNOPSIS
SCHlCKENDANTZII
Web.
!
r
Genus
G.
;
GYMNOCALYCIUM
gRbosum
Pf,
is
Rchb,
KS.
is
Pfeiffer.
Echicoeactus mon-
G. reductum Pf, is Echinocactus gibbo-.
sus.
G. vil'osrm F, is Echinocactus villosus.
Genns LEPISMIUM
Pfeiffer.
The published
species, as far as known,
are considered es c ynonyms of Rhitsalis.
Genns LEUCHTENBERGIA Fisch.
LEUCHTENBERGTA PRINCIPIS Fisch.
Near Zimipa:, Mexico.
Genns LOPHOPHORA Conlter.
LOPHOPHORA WILLIAMSII Coulter.
See fcchiiiocactus williauisii.
Genns MALACQCARPUS Salm.
Nearly
all the published species are considered as synonyms of Echinocacd, of
the same specific names.
The identity of M. Martini Labour (ex
Foerster, Handb Cact ed 2, 1:454) and
habitat are unknown.
Genus MAMMILLARIA Haworth.
"Flowers about as long as wide; the
tube campanulate or funnel-shaped. Ovary often hidden between the bases of the
tubercles, as well as ihe ex sent succulent
berry, naked.
Seeds yellowish-brown to
blacK, exal Luminous or nearly so.
Embryo) mostly short and straight, with extremely short cotyledons parallel to the
sides of the seed. Small, more or less
g obese or oval simple or cespitose plants,
the spine-bearing areolae fcorne on cylindric, oval, conic, or angular tubercles,
which cover the body of the plant. Flowers form a distinct woolly or bristly areola at the base of these tuberc.es, fully
open in sunlight, most.y only for a few
hours." E.
—
Link.
OBRBPANDA KS.
Boliv a, South America.
ECHINOPSIS OXYGONA Zucc.
ECHINOPSIS.
ECHINOPSIS
Peru, South
ECHINOPSIS
ECHINOPSIS
ECHINOPSIS
ECHINOPSIS
GRUSONIA CEREIFORMIS F
Opuntia cer iform s Web flde
viilei.
Echinocereus Merkeri Hildm,
growth,
GUELNEYRT PToul.
MAOKOYANUM Hort.
OBOVATUM E.
RUSSELTANUM Hook.
TRUNCATUM Haw.
—
Subgenus
COCHEMIEA.
much
Plants
cyl--
elongated, with
watery juice, and grooveless tubercles.
Flowers mostly in a rirg near the vertex, several times longer than broad,
metrical,
usually
Cacti.— Orcutt.
39
MAMMTELARIA MEIACANTHA
40
Engelrn.
3VLAMMIHLARIA PECTIN ATA Engelm.
m
MAMMILDARIA MAOR0MERI3
Engelm.
MAMMIDDARIA EOCASANA
^%W
%
Poselg.
f/f
.''"''
'
'
.'I
MAMMIDDARIA DASIACANTHA
Engelm.
MAMMILDARIA WRIGHTII
Engelm.
4*
Cacti.— Orcutt.
4T
scarlet, tubular, sler.der, som what ciiitea, ami <>l> Uue with spreading, unequal,
petaioid sepals, so making thei flower ap-
ereus nagelliformStamens and style red, exserted.
parently double as
is.
DfilLLARIA
Spitose,
in
1
HALEI
stems
8-10,
Brandegee.
about a foot
MAVIVT
Id
MIA
ST5NI] IS
Lodd.
cm
dm
diameter,
high, 5
2
MoiiiciMiis at bns<3 in nge, axils naked, brilliant
Stem columnar,
in ei
k lonicM lose, tomentum & sp uea
wnite; radlals very uumerous, flexible, crinifoim, 4-6 c"u trnls stronger, the upper booked.
•'Ghqws on palms, San Luis Potosi.
Variety HASSELOFll g M baeselofll Eh].
.- pi n<-s more numerous,
all criniform.
{liven
;
1
high, 2-3 inches in ctiameter, straight, coveied with dark-colored straight spines; tubercles short, rounded, wooily in the ax- Variety LINKEI S M link el Kh|.
ils; spines 15-25, y2 inch long, with 3-4 of
Cen ral spines all hooted.
the interior ones stouter and an inch long;
SETISPINA E.
flowers an inch long, vertical from the ax"Cactus setispinus: fasciculate and as~
ils of young tubercles, scarlet; sepals all
petaloid; anthers scarlet, fila- cenaing,, simple or branched at base, the
scarlet,
3 6 cm in diments exserted, yellowish, stigma scarlet: s terns about SO cm high and
fruit red, clavate, y2 inch long;
seeds ameter, densely covered with emarkably
si.ort and
smooth. A handsome species, seen only long ttout somes: tubercles
axdlary wool:
i h
upon Magdalena and Santa Margarita Is- broadly coni al, v
ladials 10lands, where it is very abundant." Bran- spines white, wich black tips;
12, wide y spreading, very unequal, jO-34
degee Cal ac pr sr 2, 2:161, t 6.
long, slender and fiexuous; central
spines 1-4, more rig d and much longer
FONDII Greene.
(/D5mm), the urper ones stiaight, trte
"±< rom a iew inches to a foot high, simple or w.th a few oval or cyiindricaily lowesc one ongest ard hooked ^usually
•-J or gate 3
tranches; g. owing parts to- upwards) and often vaiiously curved and
mentose: radial spines 20-30, white, slen- twisted: fru t obo\ ate and scarlet, 10
der; central 4 or 5, the longest more than long: seeds black and pitted, lype, Gabb
an inch in length, rigid and strongly 15 in Herb. Mo. Bot. Gard. Rocky or
look d, ca k brown aoove the middle: gravelly soil, San Julio canyon, and in
flowers nearly z inches long, bright scar- the vicinity of fc"an Borgia, Lower CaliS Nat Hb 3: 106
Near M. Good.i5gii, and differing fornia."— Coulter Cont
1
t.
from it in its laige size and brilliantly (10 Je 1894).
c ored iar £ e flowers.
The plants were
Plants
Subgenus CORYPHANTHA.
n flower .n 1 ebruary. Ihe species comes
foai the SDuthwt stern part of Cedros globose or elongated, often robust, with
Island."— Greene Putoria 1:268 (20 Mr watery juice. Tubercles (in age) grooved
on the upper s'de. Flowers as in EumamIS 89).
Jb ruit
20 rrm leng, 10
in greater diam- illaria, but some at the extremity of the
eter, greenish, I ase imbedded in wool, re- groove in the axils of young tubercles,
usually near the vertex of the plant.
nir ins of flower persistent, pulp slightly
acid, greenish (May 6, 1890 seeds 0,5mm
ALVERSONI Hort.
in d'ameter.
The Fox-tail cactus is of robust
ROSEA
Bndg.
''Stems
numerous irom the root, branching habit, densely covered with
spreading, curved, ascending, one-third to long stcut straight spines, usually tip"'ong, 4 cm thick; mamillae ar2
ped with black or black half way down,
range] Li quincunxial order, 15
apart,
cylindrical, 12
iong, white-woolly in shading into red, but often pure ivory
the upper axils: pulvinae finely pubscsnt; white throughout. The large rose purrat ial spines '.-9 in number, 9-12
long,
brown o straw colored, the single cen- ple flowers are quite showy. The largtral spine 26
iong, curved, hooked at est of some fifty plants was a cluster
the tip; flowers from the axils of the up- of six heads measuring 3 inches in
per mami lae, 3 nil long; sepals and pet- diameter and about 8 inches high.
a"s bri hi sc rle
jrL,ed into a tube,
See radiosa.
spreading at iht ir tips, in several series;
stamens and style scarlet; style branches
ARIZONICA Engelm.
r
>-7; fruit scarlet, pyriform. 6-8
long;
See radiosa
seedis black, p'tted;
c:tyledons united,
only a depr ssed line at their tips; albuE.
men none. Throughout the lower elevaDepressed-globose, fi-10 cm diam, simple; tutions of the Cane Region and northward
long; raTh's cactus is one of the bercles short-conical, erowoed, 8
to Calma'Ii.
most fh wv of Lower Ca iforn a. Dr. dials 13-16, rigid, rerurved & ar>pre«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. 3 .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 6 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
1
—
mm
MAMMILLARIA
mm
U
>
m
MAMMILLARIA
:
M/MMILLA^TA
NA
mm
mm
mm
mm
mm
'
,
mm
—
MAMMILLARIA
MAMMILLARIA COMPACTA
mm
mm
mm
MAMMILLAFJA
mm
1891).
stout, 6-10
mm
long;
centrals 3-5,
10-16
mm
Cacti.— Orcutt.
43
long, the lower one
more
15-20mm
rigid,
long,
brownish-black; (Is deep purple, '2-3 cm long &
wide. San Luis Potosi; Coahuila; Nuevo Leon.
MAMMILLARIA CORNIFERA P. DC.
MAMMILLARIA DASYACANTHA E.
Mamillaria echinus E.
44
plant; flowers bright purple, 3.5 cm
long and broader when fully expanded,
showy. Montana, Nebraska, Colorado,
Idaho, Washington and British America
consequently one of the most hardy spetire
—
cies
known.
radians.
MAMMILLARIA WISSMANNII Hildm.
MAMMILLARIA
ELEPHANTIDENS
Lem.
Section G ANDULI^ERAE. Cylindr cai; mammae cylindrical ,)cng, or oval and
MAMMILLLARIA MACROMERIS E.
or less globose; grooves bearing
MAMMILLARIA
MISSOURIENSIS more
more or less conspicuous glands, the
is
Sweet hort Brit 171 [1827].
simplex T-G Fl N Am
M
M nuttallii E pi Fend 49 [1849].
M notesteinii Britton Torr cl b 18:367
Cactus mamillaris Nutt Gen
cm
grooves cften absent in young p. an s, the
gauds sometimes n the axils or at the
base of the tubercles.
1 :553 [1840].
[1891].
1 :295 [1818]
non
l.
Globose, 3.5
diam simple; mammae ovate,
12-14
long, slightly grooved; radiais 13-17,
straight, whitish, unequal, setaceous, 8-10
loug; central more robust, longer, puberulent,
or wanting; fls 2.5
long, stigmas 2-5; truit
globose, scarlet, 6-8
diam., seeds globose,,
blacs. pitted, 1.1mm diam.
.ViOntana, Kansas,
mm
,
mm
cm
mm
Colorado, NebrasKa, South Dakota.
MAMMILLARIA ASTERIAS Cels.
MAMMILLARIA BREVIMAMMA Zucc.
Near Zimipan. M xico.
MAMMILIARIA CLAVA Pf.
"Clavato-columnaris, intense viridis; axi'lis
tomentodenso alboetglandulasimplice ml
instructis,
mox
ell a
planissimis, nudis; ra&mmillis
elongatis erectis, dorso sulcatis, hasi oblique
tetragon! a; areolis albo-villosis infraapicalibus;
Star Cactus; dwarf; flowers yellow or aeuleisri ctis, oorneis, subaequalibus, radiatiticolor.
bus 7, centraiil, paulolongiore, crassiore." -Pfr
salmon
MAMMILLARIA NICKELSAE K
Br.
"Soon and densely caespitose, glaucous
and otften purplish, 4-6 cm high, hemis-
AGZ
or globose; tubercles 10-12
long, becoming cuice as Lroad and umbricated; spines 14-18 ail raadal, slender,
at fir^t 3~elL,wish wi h darker t'ps, later
al gray; lower spi es 8-10
long, the
upper one-third longer, stouter, ex ending into the groove and foiming a fascicle, the clustered fa ci:ies m,.k rg an
upright iuft at the ver ex; nowers 5-< cm
in full expansion,
aid t be b, git yellow wi'.h red center; fruit unknown.
M
MAMMILLARIA DOLICHOCENTRA Lm
mm
pherical
mm
„•
;
redo, Texas.
Named
for the collector, Mrs'. Anna B. Nickels,
and offered in catalogues a~. M. Nickelsii.
Evident] v cLsely related to M. sulcata
Southward from
Bngeim.'
Si
(ag
I p
— Kather n
Brandegee, Zoe,
_-
5:
1900).
Mammiliaria pectinata E.
M. POTTS
1
1
radians.
ed 2, 04.
high, 2.5-3 diam, some-
Seheer ex balm
is
H
!,)
Cylindrical, 3V-35 cm
what branching; tubercles ovate, obtuse, light
ly grooved, axili wo ly, radi- Is -lender, white,
very «u ierous, rigid; centrals 6-12, S'ouier.Us
pinkish; scarlet, clavate fruit, lexas; C hm a-
1840,282.
Mexico— Eh.renb
Bot mag 1 4358 Otto & Dietr
doliehocentra Lem.
Two
g.
AGZ
1845, 234-5.
distinct species have been figured unname by Foerster, Schumann, &
Lem
der this
Seeciava.
MAMMILLARIA ERECTA Lem.
GLANDULIGERA
MAMMILLARIA
Otto ex Dietr AOZ 1848, 298:— "obovata, subglaucesr-ens axillis nudis; mamiUis brevibns,
pyramidatis,
subteretibns, albido-puuoia i ;,
dorso glandular roseo albo instructis; aeolis
subnudis; aculeis exteri >aibus steliatim disnositis numerosis fiavesceutibus demum albi
centralibus ternisvel quaternis subulatis fusiViexico."
cis, unico patente, r.seteris erectis.
Ts OttonisfideKft.
,
MAMMILLARIA MACROTHELE
Near Zimipan, Mexico.
MAMMILLARIA OTTONIS Pf.
Mart.
>
hua; Durango.
OK
Cactus pottsii
rev
gen
pi 261 ;C miter
94:— '-.itelligerse
"Globosa simplex obscure griseo-viiens; axfasciculo lanas albidse et gland ula rubra tomentoalbo cincta instructis; mammillis crassis
illis
118'.
mammasformibus, basi interdum <-ouflueutiM. bus, dorso Usque ad glandulam sulcatis; areolis
caule cvlmdraceo interdum prolifero dia metro iunioribus albo-villosis; aculeis radiantibus 11pollicari 4-5 poll, alto glauco, mamillis brevi- 12 subaequalibus rigidis rectis, 2 sommis gr \c libus confertis; axillLs lanatis, areoli- nudis, aou- oribus subeiecti flavesccnt., api^e fuse-., tanleis exteriorihus permultis intertextL albidis, dem fu^co.cinereis, centralibus 3 rarius 4, (sumcentralibus 8-12, exteriores superantibus rla- mo pleruraque defh'iente) subdeevissatis, rigidiveseemibus,summo Ktibcurvato albo subpurpu- oiibus, comeis, infimo lonedssimo natente rerascente " Nuevo Leon
curvulo. '— Pfr AGZ 1838,274. Mineral del Mon
te, Vexico— Ehren:>erg.
MAMMILLARIA RADIANS P DC.
Mlepna .Po.s A ^Z
f
1853,
:
,
1
MAMMILLARIA RADIOSA
M.
a'versoni,
E.
arizomca, chlo antha, deserti.
E.
MAMMILLARIA RECURVATA
MAMMILLARIA STROBILIFORMIS Shr.
MAMMILLAPIA SULCOLANATA Lem.
MAMMILLIRIA VIViPARA Haw.
Puip.e and white sp.n
s
cover the en-
MAMMILLARIA
Scheer ex Salm
SALMDYCKIANA
HD ed 2, 134 [1850].
Pcheerii Muehpf AGZ 1947, 97, non 1845.
rob us i pina schoit ex E.
[Cactus] brownu Toumev bot ?az "2-.-253.
Se« Orcutt rev 77-78 for descriptions; it is t mn
the uaiue sch.erii ere dropped foi il:is rare
M
M
M
Cacti.— Orcutt.
45
plant of Sonora. New Mexico, Chihuahua. Texas and Arizona* the plants from Ban Luis I'otosi is a
distinct species,
46
tubercles
ple,
mm
Blender,
cylindrical,
L2-14
bug, wiih woolly axils; radial spines
aboul 13, 5-8 nun
rig. Lower ones longer
and stouter, especially the latesl ones
l<
MAMM1LLARIA SCHEERII
Muchlpf.
"Globosa multiplex: mammillis subglobbsis
pectinate;
the central
straight
shorter,
and robust; flowers small, yellowisih-red;
fruit unknown. — Type in Herb. Mo. Bot.
Gard.
Among rocks, from S;m Tgnficio
to
Mission San Fernando, Lower Califorlongo "-AGZ
nia."
superne' sulcatis; aculeis radiantibus 20-22 albis
adpressissubdistichis, centralibus 4 rectis fuscis.
inflmu valde elongato8-10
1845. 346; 1846, 373, is
lin.
polymorpha
[oonoidea].
Near San Quintin bay, Baja
Subgenus
DOLICHOTHELE
S'C.
LACTESCENTES.
Plants depressed-globose, rarely a little elongated;
usually
tubercles
juice milky;
angular
and somewhat leathery. Flowers as in
Eumamiilaria, but mostly small.
m-
ad basin
rhomboideis, obtu.-e pyramidali-
bus apice late;aliter applanatis; pulvillis
o'vali-
bus glabiissvbapicalibus;
axil is jvmioribus nu
dein lioccose aJbo-lanatis, serius cenuo nu
dis,
setibus radialibus 5-6, diaphane albidis
dis
apice subsphacelatis, serius ubique albidis,
subulatis vix patulis, subtus et inferne recur
vulis ractianter positis, 2 aut 3 superioribus brevissimis,3 inf^rioribus altero tamo L>ngioribus;
aculeis centralibus 2, multo validioribus longioribusque, junioibus cinereo-btunneis apire nigris, dein carneo cinei'eis apice nigrieansibus,
superioreerect<~> sensim recurvato, inferiore
recte patenteinferne recurvulo, utroque earum
basin semi terete, apice rotundato, infen'ore
fere altero tantum lonsiore. Flores parvuli rubicund]', tubo brevissimo, circa ovarium ventri*
.
c se rttlatato,
superne coarctato, petalis lanceo-
latlsbreviter recurva'tig, roseis
purpurea.
cum
linea
ra?que sordide flavse: stylus staminibus lougior
roseus, stigmatibus 6 c ncoloribus.
Floret
mensibus Junto »i Julio Plantadeseripla altitudine trii«>l]icari diametroque poll. 3^£. Aeuleorun radialini 2 aut 3 superi lin. 1, ceteri 3,
lin. 2 longi; acule >rum centrali urn superior lin.
6-8longuK. inferior poflicari set utra."
MAMMILLARIA FORMOSA
M.
FUNKfl ScheidW AGZ
Scheidw.
1841,43
—
"lactescens, robusta, umbilicata, laeteviridis; axillis nudis, tandem crinifcrii; crinibus albis apice nigrescentibus ex mox unicoloribus;
mammillis pyramidato-tetraedris; areolis inf a
apice rjd mammillarum immereis, nudis, junioribus vix tornentosis; aculeis 8 maxime inaequalibus, centrali 1 longissimo incurvnlo, nascenti-
bus
fuscis,
]in altus,
J4-1-2 in.
!
tandem
griseis.
Truncus
3 poll
Fche'dW.
trunco geminato; vertice umbil-
icato; axiliis lanHtis; mammillis tetragono-polyaedris, viridibus; ateoljs junioribus lanatis,
dein nudis; aculeis exterioribus 6 rectis, stellatis, apice. nigrescentibus; centrali
1 validiore
curvula niorro
Mammil ae 4 lin. longa?: aculei
exteriores 2}4 lin. long' centralis longitud'Tie 3
lin."-AGZ 184', 42. 5000 ft alt near Oax».ca, Mex.
Mexico.
MAMMILLARIA GABBII
Cactus
— gabbii Coulter, U
f
3:10 J:
'Globose, 5-10
cm
Engelm.
S na Hb cont
in diameter, sim-
GIGANTEA
Hildm.
GUMMIFERA E.
KEESEANA Mac Dow.
HEYDERI Muehlenpf.
"Globosa, viridis, veitice impiesso, axillis
jurioribus 'abatis, mamillis conieis, elongatis,
6 lineas longis, 31ineas la'i^. areolis junioribus
albo-tomentosis apice mamillamm dispositis;
aculeis radiant ibus 20-22 albis se aee's. inferiori
f
robustiori
paululum
el uigato,
centrali
1,
ereeto
cornco basi apiecque fusr'o 2%-3 lineas longo."
MhlpfdtAGZ1848,20. Texas.
Re^el Gartenflora 1880, 52, f.
Scheele. Boem Texas, 435 (1849).
M. KRAMERI Muehpft AGZ 1815, 347:
"Globosa. basi tandem prolifera: axillis lanatis; mammillis angulosis pyramidalis, juniorilanatis; aculeis
exterioribus 4-5 rigidis,
centrali 1 elongato l%-2 poll, longo, omnibus albis apice nigris Die pflanze istaus Mexico, und
vom Kramer in Hamburg,
Namen M. macrantha."
Runge sent under this name from San Luis
Potofi, whit h bore flowers %inch long, % inch
erbielt ich dieselbe
unter den
across, 12 maroon purple sepals, 16 white petals
with maroon midvein; 6 stigmata, style, filaments and anthers white
M
Schmidtii (schmittii) Ske.
M. LEUCOTRICHA Scheidw AGZ
1840, 338:
lactescens, simplex vel caespitosa, cylindrica, vertice umbilicato; mammillis pyramid-
"M.
atis
quadrangularibus; axillis primo
tandem lana abundanti;
nudis,
aculeis criniformibus,
albis munitis; areolis rotundis lana albainstruc-
10
diametro 6pollicari; aculei extenores
longi, centralis %-6 1in. longus."
Na Hb
1WAMMILLARIA GFMINATA
— "Lactescens,
media bus
Stamiuum filamenta rosea anthe-
S
3:76.
MAMMILLARIA ANGULARIS L-O.
MAMMILLARIA
CAPUT-MEDUSAE MAMMILLARIA
Otto.
MAMMILLARIA
Near Zimipan.i Mexico.
MAMMILLARIA
M. DIACENTRa Jacobi AGZ 1856, 91.
"Angulosae tet v agonae. Caule spha?roideo, sub- MAMMILLARIA
umbilicato saturate viridi lactescente.
M
illis
U
Cactus brandegei Coulter,
cont
KS.
MAMM1LDARIA LONGIMAMMA P
MAMMILLARIA SPHAERICA S.
Subgenus
(Or-
Cal.
cutt).
See salmdyckiana.
aculeis exterioribus
omnibus
6,
centrali
1,
rigibis subaequalibus fuscis,
tandem
carneis api-
tis;
Fructus pyriformis; flores adMexico.
ce spbacelatis.
hucignoti."
Jacobi
AGZ 1851,
11.
Fee maschalacantha.
Cacti.— Orcutt.
47
M.
MASCHALACA'NTHA
M mutabilis
.
lrevior
Cactus mutabilis
expanded, as broad or broader than long.
Sepals appressed. Stamens and styles
shorter than the corolla.
Cels.
Salm, HI) ed
2, 120.
OK
ieucotricha (leucocarpa) Scheidw.
Variety LEUCOTRICHA Monv.
M. mutabilis et funkii Schdw.
JY1.
M. Senkei Poerst.
Variety XANTHoTRICHA Monv.
Cactus xanthotriM. xanthotrieha Schdp.
xanthotrieha
S.
mutabilis
M
chus OK.
M
PALLESCifiNS Scheidw AGZ1841,
42.
"Lactescens, cylindrica ant ovata; vertice urnbilicato subacu eis abscondito; axillis maxime
lanatis, lana aculeis adhaarente et mammillis
iuvolvenlej areolis tomentosis, tandem nudis;
mammillis polyaedris,
viridibus,
laete
mox
pallescentibus; aculeis 4 Cruciatim dispositis,
angulatis, recurvis, supremo maximo subtorto,
omnibus
rigidis, carneis." 5500 ft alt
Tehuaean.
MAMMILLARIA MEIACANTHA E.
MAMMILLARIA SEMPERVIVI P DC.
Near Zimipan, Mexico.
MAMMILLARIA TROHARTII Hilldm.
MAMMILLARIA UNCINATA Zucc.
Schumann
in aides
M.
PYRRHOCEPHALA
following in this
not milky.
the
known to us
M. CELSIANA Lem.
M. PRAEL1I Muehlenpf.
group, but as
all are
Scheidw.
M. ZEYERIAN A F Haage
jr
MAMMILLARIA BICOLOR Lehm.
Near Zimipan,, Mexico.
Variety NIVEA KS.
MAMMILLARIA CARNEA Zucc.
Near Zirmpan,, Mexico.
MAMMILLARIA ELEGANS DC.
MAMMILLARIA LAVOVIRENS S.
MAMMILLARIA PIAAGEANA Pf.
MAMMILLARIA MELALEUCA Karw.
MELANOCENTRA
MAMMILLARIA
Pos.
MAMMILLA'RIA MUTABILIS Scheidw.
M AIVj MILLARIA NIVOSA Link.
MAMMILLARIA OBSCURA Hilldm.
MAMMILLARIA PARKINSONII Eh.
MAMMILLARIA PERBELLA Hilldm.
PHYMATOTHELE
MAMMILLARIA
Berg.
MAMMILLARIA POLYEDRA Mart.
MAMMILLARIA SEITZIANA Mart.
Near Zimipan, Mexico.
MAMMILLARIA SIMPLEX Haw.
BUMAMILLARIA.
MAMMILLARIA
MAMMILLARIA
MAMMILLARIA
MAMMILLARIA
MAMMILLARIA
MAMMILLARIA
MAMMILLARIA
MAMMILLARIA
MAMMILLARIA
MAMMILLARIA
MAMMILLARIA
MAMMILLARIA
ACICULARIS Lem.
ACTINOPLEA
ALPINA Mart.
AMABILIS
Eh.
Eh.
AMBIGUA
G. Don.
Hopff.
ANCISTRATA Schelh.
AMOENA
ANCISTRIA Walp.
ANDREAE
Pf.
ARGE'NTEA Fenn.
ARICTINA Lem.
K
ARMILLATA
Br.
"Sterns somewhat attenuate, reaching
3 din in hieght, 4-5 cm, in diameter, usually in clusters of 3-12, from the base, often branching above; tubercles somewhat leathery in texture; conical, somewhat a/igled; axils setose and sparsely
woolly; radial spines 9-15, 7-12 nim long,
the inn°r half whitish or grayish; cenlong, the lower ones
trals 1-4, 10-20
hooked and longer, all, and the outer
part of the radials dark brown, yellowish or gray; flowers 1-2 cm long, scarcely
spreading, flesh color; fruit red, clavate,
l%-3: cm long;
coria.ceous, dull
seeds
long, oblipuely oboblack, about 1
vate, constricted above the more slen,der
basal portion; surface covered with minute, not closely contiguous pits, the intervening spaces minutely wrinkled; hilum basal, narrow. San Jose del Cabo,
mm
mm
Baja California. The name is in allusion to the dark bands which encircle the
plant, giving it much the appearance of
a raccoon's tail." Katharine Brandegee,
Zoe, 5:7 (Je 1900).
.'
M. OENTRICIRRHA Lemaire.
M. CROCIDIATA Lemaire
M. KaRWINsKIANa Mart.
Subgenus
48
—
MAMMILLARIA ATRORUBRA
This beautiful plant is covered with the fines
tender hair likf spires.
Near San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
MAMMILLARIA CANDIDA Scheidw.
MAMMILLARIA CARRETII Rebut.
Is Pringlei.
MAMMILLARIA CONICA Haw.
MAMMILLARIA DECIPIENS Schw.
L
>ose
tubercled small growing species with
delicate & pretty yellow
Plants
globose or elongated, with watery juice,
and cylmclrical or conical grooveless tubercles. I lowers borne usually in a ring
near the top of the plant, cup-shaped or
Eh.
MAMMILLARIA
ATROSANGUINEA
Eh.
MAMMILLARIA AULACANTHA P DC.
MAMMILLARIA BADISPINA F.
MAMMILLARIA BARBATA Engelm.
MAMMILLARIA BARLOWII R-K.
MAMMILLARIA BELLATULA F.
MAMMILLARIA BERGENII Eh.
MAMMILLARIA BERGII Mig.
MAMMILLARIA BIFURCA Dietr.
MAMMILLARIA BINOPS Hge.
MAMMILLARIA BOCASANA Pos.
fls.
MAMMILLARIA DIQICA
K. Brandg.
M. Goodridgii Engelmann (not Scheer?).
small globular species, closely set with brownish or white spines, the central one curved
Cacti.-
49
Into a hook.
The delicate yellowish white
flowers are succeeded
by the club-shaped,
scarlet berries that possess the flavor of wild-
wood strawberries, and are sometimes
calle'd
"hep-pitallas," the "llavina" of the Mexicans.
MAMMILLARIA ELONGATA P DC.
MAMMiLLARIA FLAVA E.
MAMMILLARIA FORDII Orcutt.
%
MAMMILLARIA GOODRIDGII
MAMMiLLARIA GRACILIS
MAMMILLARIA GRAHAMII
Mart.
Scheer.
Pf.
E.
inches
3
inch wide, reddish; berry oval, green, with
small pitied seeds. The well-known "Arizona
Strawberry" or small Fishhook Cactus of N.
M., Arizona and Utah, rare in California.
MAMMILLARIA GRUSONII Runge.
MAMMILLARIA HUMBGLDTII Lh.
MAMMILLARIA INCURVA Seheidw.
aiammillaria intricata
otto.
MAMMILLARIA LASIACANTHA
Variety
E.
DEiNUDATA Engelmann.
Mammillaria leona Pos„
is Pottsii.
MAMMILLARIA LESAUNIERI
MAMMILLARIA MAELENII S.
MAMMILLARIA MAINAE Er.
Rebut.
1
I
cate, starry net work of snowy-whito
spines over the green plant gives it a
very beautiful appearance.
Variety GREGG II Engelmann.
A Al MILL ARIA MINIMA Reichb.
Mexican species, cylindrical, forming numerous heads around the base, which readily take
root when detached.
About 20 slender white
supines radiate from the center of each hemi-
M
spherical
a bit
o.f
tubercle, enveloping the plant like
delicate lace; no central spine.
M'MM.LLARIA
NICHOLSONII
Dow.
nogalensis
laria
Runge
Mac
cat,
is
recurvata E.
MAMMILLARIA
OLIA^IAE Orcutt.
Globose to ovate, 2% inches in diameter,
3 inches high, simple or rarely branched
o~ cespitos^: tubercles ovate, V4. inch long,
axils naked; radials 25-36, snowy white,
slender, rig d, y± inch long, upper ones
shorter; centrals 1-3, the lower one only
an eighth of an inch long, erect, rigid,
white or tipped T-Hh chocolate brown; the
two upper centrals slender, white or rarely
tipped with brown, 3 times as long, closely resembling the radials; lower central
rarely longer, but occasionally even V2
inch long, slender or flexuous, brownish
and hooked upward— more frequently seen
on the lower outer tubercles of young
plants; fruit scarlet, clavate, with small
seeds. Type, Orcutt, No. 2602:— Of snowy
whiteness from its numerous interlacing
spines; dedicated to the author's life partner, whn has accompanied him in thought
on the mountains and deserts of Arizona,
where this beautiful plant occurs.
Mammtlaria
petersonii
Hldm,
is
Heese-
ana.
"nem spneii al to ovate, simple, or
sparingly Lrancaed fiom the base, reaching a height or 10cm; tubercles glaucous,
sori.ewhat incurved, cylindric, becoming
conical, I-IV2 cm long, often bright red in
the naked a^cils; radial spines, 10-15, yellowish, becoming white, slender, scarcely
pungent, 6-10
long, the upper rather
the shorter; centrals 1-2, both hooked,
rarely an addit onal u;pr one; lower
c-ntrai, usually
the
only one, nearly
twice as long as the radials, stout and
ngiy hoo ed, p nect, urown below,
s
bit cksh
above, sorn w at twjs'e
the
s cond ceattal when present, w dely di"ancate, ascending, weaker and shorter:
flowers in crown at upper part of stem,
pinKJsri-wh te or flesh-color, 1-V/2 cm in
'ength, including tie ovary; style whitish, deeply, few-lobed fruit red, globular,
to objvate, shorter t an Ihe tubercles;
seer's dull-black, punctate, a little more
than 1
long, obovate, with narrowlyiin ar
asal httctrx.
Named for the col-
mm
1
;
mm
1
Mr\ T<\ TV. Main, who found it in
ot r
Sonora, south of Nogales. It has been
'
i
MAMMILLA
Mammi
S,
simple
or
high, subg^obose,
branching Irom the base; tubercles ovate,
axils naked; radir.I spines in one series, 20 to
lines long, rigid and
30 in number,
3 to
6
longer
and
whitish, surrounding a stouter
hooked brown r.-ne. Flowers small, nearly 1
to
1
offered by dealers aa ivi. Galestlil &sh< Id,
lo whirl, it is not al nil related."
Kath••11 in
Brai deg e, Zoe, r»..
(ag L900).
I!
A MICROMERIS BX
mushroom cactus, found in Texas, re;i,
%
MAI.-MILLARIA FULIGINOSA
50
sembles
silk-covered button, and can
be handled without gloves. The deli-
Ovale, 2 incheb in diameter, and about 3 high,
rarely branching at base; tubercles obtuse,
i.ieh across, short, 12 radial spines cinereous, Va
-V^iiieh long, the solitary central black and
hooked,
inch long; flower an inch long, white
with about 9 petals a;.d 9 sepals— the latter with
purplish midvein ou the back, 6 stigmata of a
brownish green style greenish, filaments white
and anthersorange yellow; flowers in July; Baja
California on the west coast, collected for L. M.
Ford, 1899. Near M. Goodridgii.
MAMMILLARIA GLOCHIDIATA
Orcutt
M^mmiraria
pfeifferi
Booth,
is
rhodan-
tha.
MAMMILLARIA PHELLOSPERMA
MAMMILLARIA PLUMOSA Web.
MAMMILLARIA PRINGLEI K Br.
E.
Katharine Brand gee, Zoe, 5:7, publishtame (based on Cactus Pringlei
Coult r), and sates that it seems to
scarcely differ front M. CarretiL
es this
MAMMILLARIA PTJSILLA Sweet.
MAMMILLARIA RHODANTHA L-O.
Oblong or subcylindric,
30
cm
high,
7.5-
diameter, often bifurcate; tubercles
long, S in diameter; with
rgdial spines 16-20, bristlelike, white, the lower 8-10
long; central snines 6 or 7, rigid, whitish with black
10 in
mm
conical, 1?
wool'y axils-
tin, 12
mm
mm
mm
long; Powers ro^e-color, 12
2.5 cm long, cylindrical.
Mex-
tread; fruit
ico.
MAMMILLARIA SPHACELATA Mart.
MAMMILLAPIA SPINAUREA S.
MAMMILLARIA SPINOSISSTMA Lem.
MAMMILLARIA STELLA- AURATA ML
-**
Cacti.— Orcutt.
5i
MAM MILLAR I A THORNBERI
Orcutt.
Cylindrical. 1% inch in diameter, usually
2-3 inches high, erect, with 8 or 9 spiral
rows of tubercles, axils naked; 13-18 slender white or brown tipped radials y± inch
long; usually 1 slender flexuous hooked
central one-fourth to three-fourths of an
inch long, tipped with brown; fruit clavate. scarlet, containing minute black
seeds. Tips of tubercles olive green, base
and axils and sunken portion of plant
tinged with purple; radials usually 13, the
upper sometimes the longest, often brown
nearly to the base: central occasionally
brown, usually the lower half white or
yellowish, often hooked upward, but often
twisted and turning in every direction.
Plant proliferous at base, forming numerous offsets in the axils of the buried or
lower tubercles; these quickly take root
52
"Collected by Mr. T. S. Brandegee in
the vicinity of Sa»n Jose del Cabo, Baja
California, in Sept. 1890.
(No. 24Q, M.
Goodrichii, of 'Flora of the Cape Region'); again Sept. 1893, and for the third
time last year in numerous living specimens. The spines are from pure white,
barely tipped with brown, to dark brown,
whitish only near the base. The flowers,
which appear in September, hide the
whole plant, and it is of such low growth
as to look like a beautiful cluster of
flowers springing from the sand.
The
fruit app earing in winter is nearly dry
and falls very readily when ripe, leaving
1
most
of the seeds in the axillary cup. It
is
the only circumcissile Mammillaria
known to me."— Katherine Brandegee,
Zoe, 5:8 (Je 1900).
and usually soon sever connection with MAMMILLARIA VETULA Mart.
the parent, thus forming dense compact MAMMILLARIA WILCOXI Tourmey.
Usual: y simple, depressed-globose; 14-16
masses of old and young plants, usually
10-50 — but in one, perhaps not exceptional slender subulate whitish radials 10
case, I counted 110 distinct plants, in a long; solitary hooked central brownish;
cluster all apparently originating from axilq naked. Fruit (16 O 1896) flesh color
the tallest individual in the group. Occa- faintly tinged with carmine, the black
sionally a plant, from injuries sustained, seeds showing through the transparent
Near Congress and Benson,
becomes bifurcate or forms a number of epidermis.
mm
—
heads which remain permanently Arizona (Orcutt).
attached — but which usually form roots MAMMILLARIA WILDII Dietr.
of their own and eventually survive the
death of the parent. More than 1 central MAMMILLARIA WRIGHTII E.
spine appears very rare, but 2 or three MAMMILLARIA ZEPHYRANTHOIDES
Scheidw.
sometimes appear from the same small
woolly areola, one or all hooked, of equal Mamillopsis senilis Web, is Mammillaria
The largest plant
or varying length.
senilis Lodd.
among over 1,000 was 1% inch in diameter
and nearly a foot high! Type, Orcutt, No.
Genus MELOOACTUS De Canclolle.
2583: — Arizona.
Curiously the same plant
Globose fleshy plants 1-3 feet in diamewas found a few days earlier than by the ter,
regularly
ribs bearing clusauthor by Prof. J. J. Thornber, and ters of spines, ribbed,
surmounted with a woolly
planted in the cactus garden of the Uni- cylindrical cap closely cet with
softer
versity of Arizona, and this interesting spines, upon which the small tubular red
addition to the cactus flora of the United or rose-colored flowers are borne.
Of litStates may therefore appropriately bear tle va^ue hortieulturally
and rarely culhis name.
tivated with success. Generally found in
MAMMILLARIA TOALDOAE Lehm.
rocky or candy dry situations in tropical
America and West Indies.
MAMMILLARIA UMBTIINA Eh.
MELOC ACTUS VIRIDESCENS Nutt.
MAMMILLARIA VALIDA Web.
NuttaM ex Teschem in J Bost Soc Nat
MAMMILLARIA VENUSTA K Br.
Hist 5:293 (1845).—A synonym of Echino"Simple, becoming caespitose in clus- cactus viridescens.
The Meiocacti are natives of the West
ters of, in extreme cases, as many as 40;
heads 2-4, very rarely, in center of large Indies, and tropical America.
clusters, 6 cm high, a little less in diameter; tubercles thick and short, concave
Genus MYRTTLLOCACTUS Console.
at the end, greenish, purplish to nearly MYRTILLOCACTUS GEOMETRIZANS C
white, glaucous; axils only slightly woolOereus geometrizans Mart.
ly,
soon marked; radial spines, 9-15,
Cereus cochal Orcutt.
aerial
.,
mm
long;
centrals
typically
or 3, in
specimen 4, porrect-spreadig,
a.
sing'.e
the 3 upper very short; flowers about 4
stout, 6-12
solitary, 10-15
mm, sometimes
2
cm in diameter,
rose-co'lor,
widely
spreading, tube very short; petals lanceolate acute,
recurved-spreading; stylebranches 5, apparently rosy brown;
fruit 1%-12 cm long, scarlet, linear, circumsclssile some distance above the base,
nearly dry; seeds oblong-obovate, rather
long, constricted above
less f han one
the basal portion, which is half as long
and nearly as wide as the upper; surface
dull, minutelv pitted, the pits much ob-
mm
Genus PELECYPHORA Elarenb.
PELECY(PHORA ASMLLIFORMIS Ehrenb.
The Hatchet cactus is a little gem
from Mexico, so-called from the shape
of the tubercles. It bloomed in San
Diego on
length
bright
May
day, scarce
%
inch in
and breadth, with thirteen
magenta colored petals and
scured by delicate intervemng striae; hi-
seven or eight pale lavendar sepals,
the four stigmata white, style and filaments tinged with purple, and anthers
lum
bright
basal, large
and triangular.
orange.
The
largest
plant
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