. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. . Figs. 182 and 183.—Echinocactus grusonii. Fig. 184.—Flower of Echino- cactus grusonii. Echinocereus grusonii azureus is a form incidentally mentioned by Von Zeisold (Monats- schr. Kakteenk. 3: 141. 1893), while Nicholson refers here, as a synonym, Echinocactus aureus (Diet. Gard. Suppl. 334. 1900). Echinocactus corynacanthus Scheidweiler and Echinocactus galeottii Scheidweiler (Allg. Gartenz. 9: 50. 1841), while doubtless referable to this genus, are more likely to belong to Echinocactus grusonii than to E
. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. . Figs. 182 and 183.—Echinocactus grusonii. Fig. 184.—Flower of Echino- cactus grusonii. Echinocereus grusonii azureus is a form incidentally mentioned by Von Zeisold (Monats- schr. Kakteenk. 3: 141. 1893), while Nicholson refers here, as a synonym, Echinocactus aureus (Diet. Gard. Suppl. 334. 1900). Echinocactus corynacanthus Scheidweiler and Echinocactus galeottii Scheidweiler (Allg. Gartenz. 9: 50. 1841), while doubtless referable to this genus, are more likely to belong to Echinocactus grusonii than to E. ingens where they are referred by Schumann. Illustrations: Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 1:4, 7; Gartenwelt 1: 429; Diet. Gard. Nicholson Suppl. 335. f. 356; Cact. Journ. 1: pi. for March; 165; 2: 42; Wiener 111. Gart. Zeit. 29: f. 22, No. 1; Journ. Hort. Home Farm. III. 60: 144; Journ. Intern. Gard. Club 3: 10; Schelle, Handb. Kakteenk. f. 74; West Amer. Sci. 13: 6; Gartenwelt 7: 277; Mollers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 25: 474. f. 6, No. 8; De Laet, Cat. Gen. f. 6; f. 50, No. 1; Watson, Cact. Cult, ed. 2. 250. f. 94. Figure 182 is from a photograph of a large plant grown by Mr. E. C. Rost at Alhambra, California, photographed by Miles E. Rost; figure 183 shows the flowering top of the plant; figure 184 is from a drawing of a flower from the same collection. 2. Echinocactus ingens Zuccarini in Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 54. 1837. Globular to short-oblong, 15 dm. high, dm. in diameter (but reported by Karwinsky to be 5 to 6 feet in diameter), glaucescent, somewhat purplish, very woolly at the top; ribs 8, obtuse, tuberculate; areoles large, distant, to 3 cm. apart, bearing copious yellow wool; spines brown, straight, rigid, 2 to 3 cm. long; radial spines 8; central spine 1; perianth 2 cm. long, 3 cm. broad; inner perianth-segments linear-oblong, yellow, entire, obtuse; fruit ovoid, 3 cm. long, copiously cov- ered by wool coming from the axils of small scales; stigma-lobes brick-red,
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