. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 9/4 MAMMILLARIA 7 cornifera, DC. Tubercles ovate, thick, rather crowiknl: radial spines 15-17, ashy white, G lines long; central 1, longer and stouter, erect, somewhat curved. Mexico. 8. daimonoc*ras,Lem. Verteximpressed,verywoolly: tubercles erect-conical: spines grayish; radials 20 or more, the upper accessor
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 9/4 MAMMILLARIA 7 cornifera, DC. Tubercles ovate, thick, rather crowiknl: radial spines 15-17, ashy white, G lines long; central 1, longer and stouter, erect, somewhat curved. Mexico. 8. daimonoc*ras,Lem. Verteximpressed,verywoolly: tubercles erect-conical: spines grayish; radials 20 or more, the upper accessory ones fascicled; centrals usu- ally 3, stronger, the 2 upper divaricate and somewhat recurved, the lower horizontal or recurved. Mexico. 9. Echinus, Enjrlm. Differs from the above in the less <lc-]ir(SM'il and rather more numerous spines. Southern Tix. to .Mi.'X. 10. scolymoides, Scheidw. At length somewhat ces- pitose: tubercles conical, bent inwards and imbricated: radial spines 14-20, whitish or horn-colored; centrals 1^, longer and darker, the upper mingled with the up- per radials, the lower stouter and bent downwards: lis. 2 in. in diam. Mex., south of the Rio Grande. 11. radians, DC. Stems simple: axils naked: tubercles oval, large: .spines white, rigid, subtomentose. Mex. 12. pectinita, Engelm. Stem simple: tubercles quad- rangular at base, conical above; areolae round-oblong: spines 16-24, yellowish, laterally compressed at base, stiff, pectinate, somewhat recurved: fls. 2% in. In diam.; petals broadest above, obtusish. Pecos river and Leon Springs, Tex. 13. impezicdina, Lem. Vertex deeply impressed, densely woolly: tubercles somewhat angulate; areolte round: spines 18-20, gray, rigid, covering the whole plant; very rarely a single porrect central. Mex. 14. sulcata, Engelm. (if. calcar&ta, Engelm.). Densely cespitose from the upper part of the groove: tubercles 7-9 lines long, ovate-oblong, with dilated base, soim-wluit imbricate, spreading in age: spin
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