. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. OPUNTIA. I29 Cact. ed. 2. f. 126, as Opuntia rafinesquei arkansana; Monatsschr. Kaktcenk. 14: 124, as Opuntia vitlgaris nana; Miller, Fig. PI. Card. Diet. 2: pi. 191, as Opuntia'folio minor}, etc., Diet. Hort. Bois f. 638; Rev. Hort. 40: f. 10, n; 66: f. 59, all as Opuntia rafinesquiana. Wiener Illustr. Gartenz. 10: f. 112, as Opuntia rafinesquiana arkansana. Plate xxu, figure 5, represents a flowering joint of the plant which grows naturally on schistose rocks in the New York Botanical Garden. Figure 160 is from a photograph of the plant growi
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. OPUNTIA. I29 Cact. ed. 2. f. 126, as Opuntia rafinesquei arkansana; Monatsschr. Kaktcenk. 14: 124, as Opuntia vitlgaris nana; Miller, Fig. PI. Card. Diet. 2: pi. 191, as Opuntia'folio minor}, etc., Diet. Hort. Bois f. 638; Rev. Hort. 40: f. 10, n; 66: f. 59, all as Opuntia rafinesquiana. Wiener Illustr. Gartenz. 10: f. 112, as Opuntia rafinesquiana arkansana. Plate xxu, figure 5, represents a flowering joint of the plant which grows naturally on schistose rocks in the New York Botanical Garden. Figure 160 is from a photograph of the plant growing on sand dunes at Crooke's Point, Staten Island, New York, taken by Howard H. Cleaves in 1914. 119. Opuntia macrarthra Gibbes, Proc. Elliott Soc. Nat. Hist, i: 273. 1859. Stems prostrate or ascending; joints narrowly oblong to obovate, 12 to 35 cm. long, thick, pale green, somewhat shining; leaves subulate, 10 mm. long, green, sometimes with purplish tips; areoles large, 2 to 3 cm. apart, filled with brown wool; spines wanting, or sometimes i, up to cm. long; glochids when present yellow; flowers not known; fruit narrowly obovoid, red, fleshy, 4 to 6 cm. long. Type locality: Near Charleston, South Carolina. Distribution: Coast of South Carolina. This species, long overlooked, has recently been col- lected by Dr. J. K. Small in the vicinity of the type locality. This is doubtless one of the species to which Elliott called attention and which he said he expected to publish, but never did.* The original description long remained unnoticed in the Proceedings of the Elliott Society of Natural History; it is as follows: "The second, which we will call Opuntia macrarthra, falls under the same section with the preceding, and seems to be near Opuntia angustata, of Engelmann, from the west of the Rio Grande; a prostrate species, joints from ten to fifteen inches long and three inches wide, one-third of an inch thick; no spines, fruit two and a half inches long, slender, clavat
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