. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. FEROCACTUS. 145 Echinocactus longihamatus crassispinus Engelmann, Proc. Amer. Acad. 3: 273. 1856. Echinocactus longihamatus brevispinus Engelmann, Proc. Amer. Acad. 3: 274. 1856. Echinocactus flavispinus Meinshausen, Wochenshr. Gartn. Pflanz. 1: 28. 1858. Echinocactus haematochroanthus Hemsley, Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 1: 532. 1880. Echinocactus hamatacanthns longihamatus Coulter, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3: 365. 1896. Echinocactus hamatacanthns brevispinus Coulter, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3: 366. 1896. Echinocactus
. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. FEROCACTUS. 145 Echinocactus longihamatus crassispinus Engelmann, Proc. Amer. Acad. 3: 273. 1856. Echinocactus longihamatus brevispinus Engelmann, Proc. Amer. Acad. 3: 274. 1856. Echinocactus flavispinus Meinshausen, Wochenshr. Gartn. Pflanz. 1: 28. 1858. Echinocactus haematochroanthus Hemsley, Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 1: 532. 1880. Echinocactus hamatacanthns longihamatus Coulter, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3: 365. 1896. Echinocactus hamatacanthns brevispinus Coulter, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3: 366. 1896. Echinocactus longihamatus sinuatus Weber in Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen 342. 1898. Solitary, globular to oblong, up to 60 cm. high; ribs usually 13, sometimes 17, strongly tubercled. 2 to 3 cm. high; areoles large, 1 to 3 cm. apart; radial spines about 12, acicular, terete, 5 to 7 cm. long; central spines 4, elongated, angled, sometimes 15 cm. long, one of them hooked at apex; flowers large, 7 to 8 cm. long, yellow, in some forms said to be scarlet within; fruit oblong, 2 to 5 cm. long, fleshy, edible, dark brown to drab-colored (not red); seeds pitted. Type locality: Mexico. Distribution: Southern Texas, New Mexico, and northern Mexico. This species develops elongated glands, 2 to 4 mm. long, in the areoles between the flower and the spines, as do some of the others; these at first are soft, but in age become hard and spine-like. The fruit of this species is unlike that of most other species of the genus; the skin is thin and the flesh juicy and edible. Echinocactus insignis Haage jr. (Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 5: 76. 1905), a name only, was referred by Schumann as a synonym of E. longihamatus. The following names (not described) are usually referred to this species or one of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original
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