. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. OPUNTIA. 205 10 cm. wide, i to cm. thick, light green; branchlets obliquely lanceolate, obtuse, as wide as the branches, but shorter, i cm. thick or less, floriferous at and near the apex; areoles of the older branches pitted, about i cm. apart, those of very young shoots slightly elevated, the glochids very short, yellowish brown; spines of the trunk 15 cm. long or less, very numerous and densely clothing the trunk, very slender, gray, mostly strongly reflexed, pungent, those of the branches and branch- lets restricted to the areoles on th
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. OPUNTIA. 205 10 cm. wide, i to cm. thick, light green; branchlets obliquely lanceolate, obtuse, as wide as the branches, but shorter, i cm. thick or less, floriferous at and near the apex; areoles of the older branches pitted, about i cm. apart, those of very young shoots slightly elevated, the glochids very short, yellowish brown; spines of the trunk 15 cm. long or less, very numerous and densely clothing the trunk, very slender, gray, mostly strongly reflexed, pungent, those of the branches and branch- lets restricted to the areoles on their edges, shorter than those of the trunk but similar, purple when. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Carnegie Institution of Washington. Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington
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