. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. 32 THE CACTACEAE. 12. Coryphantha erecta Lemaire, Cactees 34. 1868. M'ainmillaria erecta Lemaire in Pfeiffer, Allg. Gartenz. S^ 370- 1837. Maiyimillaria ceratocetiira Berg, Allg. Gartenz. 8: 130. 1840. Echiticocactiis ereclus Poselger, Allg. Gartenz. 21: 126. 1853. Cactus erectiis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i: 260. 1S91. Cactus ceratocentrus Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i: 260. 1891. Plant-bodv cvlindric, yellowish green; axils of young tubercles white-woolly: tubercles obliquely conic, somewhat rhombiform at base; radial spi
. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. 32 THE CACTACEAE. 12. Coryphantha erecta Lemaire, Cactees 34. 1868. M'ainmillaria erecta Lemaire in Pfeiffer, Allg. Gartenz. S^ 370- 1837. Maiyimillaria ceratocetiira Berg, Allg. Gartenz. 8: 130. 1840. Echiticocactiis ereclus Poselger, Allg. Gartenz. 21: 126. 1853. Cactus erectiis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i: 260. 1S91. Cactus ceratocentrus Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i: 260. 1891. Plant-bodv cvlindric, yellowish green; axils of young tubercles white-woolly: tubercles obliquely conic, somewhat rhombiform at base; radial spines 8 to 14, subulate, ascending, yellowish; central spines 2, upper one short, lower one curv'ed; flowers large, yellow; perianth-segments ^•er^' narrow. Type locality: IMexico. Distribution: State of Hidalgo. The plant described by Schumann has four central spines and may not belong to this species; his illustration answers it fairly well but does not show 4 centrals. We have recently examined specimens labeled Mainmillaria erecta which were sent by Carl Ackerman, em- ployed at the Huntington estate near Los Angeles, California; his plants grow in clumps. Figs. 30 and 31.—Cor\'phantha erecta. one meter in diameter; the larger branches are prostrate below, ascending or erect above, 3 dm. long; the spine-areoles are circular, white-felted when young; the spines are glossy yellow, the radials widely spreading; central spines often wanting or sometimes solitary, porrect, and shorter than the radials. Mammillaria evarescentis, according to Lemaire (Cact. Aliq. Xov. 4. 1838), was a garden name improperly applied to this species. The three names ^lammillaria evanescens, j\I. evarescens, and ^I. evarasccns were listed as synonyms of .1/. erecta by Forster (Handb. Cact. 243. 1846). Illustrations: Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen 504. f. 82; IMollers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 25: 475- f- 8, No. 7; Lemaire, Icon. Cact. pi. 10, as Mammilaria erecta. Figure 30 is from a photograph of a plant col
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