. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. OPUNTIA. 89 y Figure 103 is from a photograph of an herbarium specimen collected by Carl Skotts- berg in the Territory of Santa Cruz, Patagonia, in 1908. 59. Opuntia glomerata Haworth, Phil. Mag. 7: in. Opuntia articulata Otto, Allg. Gartenz. i: 116. 1833. Cereus articulatiis Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 103. 1837. Cereus syringacanthus Pfeiffer, Enura. Cact. 103. 1837. Opuntia platyacantha Salm-Dyck in Pfeiffer, Allg. Gartenz. 5: 371. 1837. Opuntia tuberosa spinosa Pfeiffer, Knum. Cact. 146. 1837. Opuntia andicola Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 145. 18
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. OPUNTIA. 89 y Figure 103 is from a photograph of an herbarium specimen collected by Carl Skotts- berg in the Territory of Santa Cruz, Patagonia, in 1908. 59. Opuntia glomerata Haworth, Phil. Mag. 7: in. Opuntia articulata Otto, Allg. Gartenz. i: 116. 1833. Cereus articulatiis Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 103. 1837. Cereus syringacanthus Pfeiffer, Enura. Cact. 103. 1837. Opuntia platyacantha Salm-Dyck in Pfeiffer, Allg. Gartenz. 5: 371. 1837. Opuntia tuberosa spinosa Pfeiffer, Knum. Cact. 146. 1837. Opuntia andicola Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 145. 1837. Opuntia diademata Lemaire, Cact. Aliq. Nov. 36. 1838. Opuntia turpinii Lemaire, Cact. Aliq. Nov. 36. 1838. Opuntia andicola elongata Lemaire, Cact. Gen. Nov. Sp. 72. 1839. Opuntia andicola fulvispina Lemaire, Cact. Gen. Nov. Sp. 72. 1839. Opuntia andicola major Lemaire, Cact. Gen. Nov. Sp. 72. 1839. Opuntia caha Lemaire, Cact. Gen. Nov. Sp. 73. 1839. Opuntia platyacantha gracilior Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1844. 43. 1845. Opuntia platyacantha momillei Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort Dyck. 1849. 71. 1850. Opuntia platyacantha deflexispina Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1849 245. 1850. Opuntia papyracantha Philippi, Gartenflora 21: 129. 1872. Opuntia syringacantha Schumann, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 6: 156. 1896. Opuntia plumosa nivea Walton, Cact. Journ. i: 105. 1898. Forming low, spreading clumps, the branches either erect or prostrate; joints globular, 3 to 6 cm. in diameter, often in cultivated specimens even smaller, dull grayish brown, hardly tuberculate except in drying; areoles large, bearing numerous long, brown glochids; spines often wanting, when present i to 3, long, weak, thin and papery, hardly pungent, either white or brownish, sometimes 10 cm. long; flowers light yellow, small; fruit globose, i to cm. long, dry; seeds corky. Type locality: Brazil, according to Haworth, but erroneously. Distribution: Western Argentina. It has also been referred to Brazil and Chile, but
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