. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. ECHINOCACTUS 23. Echidne, DC. {£â . f^andeiwyi, Lem.). Depressed- globose, 5-7 in. in diam., 3â1 in. higli: ribs 13, acute: radial spines 7, broad, rigid, spreading, yellowish, 1 in. or more long; central spine solit
. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. ECHINOCACTUS 23. Echidne, DC. {£â . f^andeiwyi, Lem.). Depressed- globose, 5-7 in. in diam., 3â1 in. higli: ribs 13, acute: radial spines 7, broad, rigid, spreading, yellowish, 1 in. or more long; central spine solitary and scarcely longer than the others: flowers bright yellow, 1 in. or more long. Mexico. 24. Tez^nsis, Hopf. Mostly depressed (sometimes globose 1, 8-12 in. in diam., 4-6 in. high, simple: ribs mostly 21 (sometimes 27, and in smaller specimens 13 or 14) and undulate: spines stout and fasciculate, red- dish, compressed; the exterior 6 or 7 radiant, straight- ish or curved, unequal, K to four-flfths in. long in some cases, one and one-fifth to 2 in. in others, much shorter than the solitary and stout recurved central, which is sometimes one-sixth to H in. broad: flowers about one- lifth in. long, parti-colored (scarlet and orange below to white above). Texas and northeastern Mexico. 25. £moryi, Engelm., var. rectisplnus, Engelm. Fig. 745. Globose, at length cylindrical: ribs 13-21, obtuse and strongly tuberculate: radial spines 7-9, very unequal, the 3 upper ones 4-5 in. long, the lower lK-3 in. long and paler; the central very long (12-13 in.), straight or slightly decurved. Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. 2G. reciimis, Link & Otto. Subglobose and very stout: ribs about 15, covered with broad, dark red spines, the radials spreading, the central one recurved and very stout. Mexico (?). 27. setisplnus, Engelm. Subglobose, 2 to three and one-fifth in. in diam.: ribs 13, more or less oblique, often undulate or somewhat interrupted: radial spines 14-16,
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