. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 57° CACTACEAE. Vol. I. Pediocactus Simpsoni (Engelm.) Brit- ton & Rose. Simpson's Cactus. Hedge- hog-thistle. Fig. 2983. Echinocaclus Simf'soni Engelm. Trans. St. Louis Acad. 2: 197. 1863. Stems single, globose or with a narrowed base, 3'-6' high, 3-4' in diameter. Tubercles ovoid, somewhat 4-sided at base, 6"-8" long, arranged in spirals; central s
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 57° CACTACEAE. Vol. I. Pediocactus Simpsoni (Engelm.) Brit- ton & Rose. Simpson's Cactus. Hedge- hog-thistle. Fig. 2983. Echinocaclus Simf'soni Engelm. Trans. St. Louis Acad. 2: 197. 1863. Stems single, globose or with a narrowed base, 3'-6' high, 3-4' in diameter. Tubercles ovoid, somewhat 4-sided at base, 6"-8" long, arranged in spirals; central spines yellowish below, nearly black above, s"-7" long, the exterior ones slightly shorter, whitish; flowers greenish pink, 8'-io" long and about as broad, borne to one side at the ends of the tubercles; petals oblong, crenulate and cuspidate at the apex; berry dry, 3"-3i" in diameter, bearing near its summit 2-3 scales which sometimes have short spines in their axils. Kansas (according to B. 1 Wyoming. Utah, New Mexi( May. Smyth) : Colorado and Nevada, Apri 3. CORYPHANTHA [Engehii.] Lemaire, Cact. 32. i8b8. Stems solitary or clustered, globose or ovoid, tubercled. Tubercles conic or cylindric, grooved, at least in many species, woolly and with clusters of spines at the apex. Leaves none. Flowers borne from areolae at the bases of the tubercles. Calyx-tube campanulate or funnel-form, produced beyond the ovary, which is often hidden between the tubercles. Petals in several rows. Ovary smooth, ovoid; style filiform. Berry ovoid or club-shaped, emersed, sometimes crowned by the withering corolla. [Greek, summit-flowering, the flowers being produced near the top.] Perhaps 100 species, natives of warm_ and tropical America. Besides the following, many others occur in the southwestern States. The generic name Caci first edition belongs to the Turk's-head Cacti of tropical Amer sulcata Engelm. Flowers yellow or reddish : central spine 1 : berry scarlet, globos
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