. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. NEOMAMMILLARIA. 119 spinosissima may have been in cultivation at the time of Forbes's visit to Germany, for it was published in 1838. Illustrations: Mollers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 25: 475. f. 8. No. 26, as Mammillaria posel- geriana; Gartenflora 32: pi. iiii; Diet. Gard. Nicholson 2: 322. f. 5io;F6rster, Handb. Cact. ed. 2. 271. f. 28; Watson, Cact. Cult. 172. f. 68; ed. 3. f. 46, as Mammillaria sanguinea; Mollers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 25: 475. f. 8, No. 11, as Mammillaria eximia; Mollers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 25: 475
. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. NEOMAMMILLARIA. 119 spinosissima may have been in cultivation at the time of Forbes's visit to Germany, for it was published in 1838. Illustrations: Mollers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 25: 475. f. 8. No. 26, as Mammillaria posel- geriana; Gartenflora 32: pi. iiii; Diet. Gard. Nicholson 2: 322. f. 5io;F6rster, Handb. Cact. ed. 2. 271. f. 28; Watson, Cact. Cult. 172. f. 68; ed. 3. f. 46, as Mammillaria sanguinea; Mollers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 25: 475. f. 8, No. 11, as Mammillaria eximia; Mollers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 25: 475. f. 8, No. 18, as Mammillaria spinosissima auricoma; Bait. Cact. Journ. 2: 150, as M. spinosissima brunnea; Mollers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 25: 487. f. 21: Cact. Journ. 2: 93; Blanc, Cacti 74. No. 1580; Schelle, Handb. Kakteenk. 253. f. 174; Bliihende Kakteen 2: pi. 71, as Mammillaria spinosissima. Plate XII, figure 2, shows a plant collected by Dr. Rose at El Parque, Mexico, in 1906. Figure 124 is from a photograph of a plant sent to the New York Botanical Gar- den by Frank Weinberg in 1906 as Cactus spinosissimus; figure 125 is from a photograph of a plant sent by William Brockway from the mountains above the City of Fig. 126.—NeomammiUaria denslspina. Fig. 127.—NeomammiUaria nunezii. 77. NeomammiUaria denslspina (Coulter). Cactus densispinus Coulter, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3: 96. 1894. Mammillaria pseudofuscata Quehl, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 24: 114. 1914. Globose, 6 to 10 cm. in diameter, entirely hidden by the dense covering of spines; tubercles short and thick, green, not milky; radial spines 25 or more, slightly spreading, about i cm. long, whitish or pale yellow; central spines 5 or 6, longer than the radials, 10 to 12 mm. long, the upper half or third dark brown; flowers purple without, yellowish within, cm. long; seeds obovate, reddish brown, i mm. in diameter. Type locality: San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Distribution: San Luis Potosi, Mexico. We have had thi
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