. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. I30 THE CACTACEAE. Type locality: Near Viesca, in Coahuila, Mexico. Distribution: Coahuila, Mexico. Illustration: Monatsschr. Kakteenk. i6: 40, as Mammillaria lenta. Figure 137 is from a photograph obtained from L. Quehl in 1921; figure 140 is from a photograph of a fruiting plant sent from Parras, Mexico, by C. A. Purpus in 1905. 90. Neomammillaria Candida (Scheidweller). Mammillaria Candida Scheidweiler, Bull. Acad. Sci. Brux. 5: 496. 1838. Mammillaria sphaerotricha Lemaire, Cact. Gen. Nov. Sp. 32,. 1839. Mammil
. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. I30 THE CACTACEAE. Type locality: Near Viesca, in Coahuila, Mexico. Distribution: Coahuila, Mexico. Illustration: Monatsschr. Kakteenk. i6: 40, as Mammillaria lenta. Figure 137 is from a photograph obtained from L. Quehl in 1921; figure 140 is from a photograph of a fruiting plant sent from Parras, Mexico, by C. A. Purpus in 1905. 90. Neomammillaria Candida (Scheidweller). Mammillaria Candida Scheidweiler, Bull. Acad. Sci. Brux. 5: 496. 1838. Mammillaria sphaerotricha Lemaire, Cact. Gen. Nov. Sp. 32,. 1839. Mammillaria humboldtii Ehrenberg, Linnaea 14: 378. 1840. Mammillaria sphaerotricha rosea Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1849. 85. 1850. Cactus humboldtii JLuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i: 260. 1891. Not Humboldt, Bompland, and Kunth, 1823. Cactus sphaerotrichus Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i: 261. 1891. Mammillaria Candida rosea Salm-Dyck in Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen 525. 1898. Cespitose; individual plant globose, 5 to 7 cm. in diameter, almost hidden by the wliite spines ; radial spines numerous, radiating; central spines 8 to 12, porrect, often brownish at tip, a little stouter than the radials; axils setose; flowers 2 cm. long, rose-colored; perianth-segments serrulate twards the apex; fruit red; seeds Figs. 141 and 142.—Neomammillaria Candida. Type locality: Near San Luis Potosi. Distribution: Central Mexico. Illustrations: Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 29: 141, as Mammillaria Candida rosea; Hort. Beige 5: pi. 117; MoUers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 25: 475. f. 8, No. 27; Bliihende Kakteen 3: pi. 169, as Mammillaria Candida. Figure 141 is from a photograph of a plant obtained by Dr. Palmer near San Luis Potosi in 1905; figure 142 is from a photograph of a plant collected by C. A. Purpus from near the same locality in 1910. 91. Neomammillaria vetula (Martius). Mammillaria vetula Martius, Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. 16: 338. 1832. Cactus vetulus Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i: 261. 1891. Plant somewhat club-shaped, s
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