. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. APPENDIX. 275 On page iii, vol. 11, under Wilcoxia striata, insert: According to T. S. Brandegee (under date of June 8, 1921), the flowers of Wilcoxia striata are nocturnal. On page 112, vol. 11, nnd&r Peniocereus greggii, add to iWustrsitions: Amer. Gard. 11: 474, as Cereus greggii; Journ. Wash. Acad. 12: 329. f. i; Succulenta 4: 71. On page 113, vol. 11, insert: , 2. Peniocereus johnstonii Britton and Rose, Journ. Wash. Acad. 12: 329. 1922. A climbing or clambering plant, up to 3 meters long, with a very lar
. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. APPENDIX. 275 On page iii, vol. 11, under Wilcoxia striata, insert: According to T. S. Brandegee (under date of June 8, 1921), the flowers of Wilcoxia striata are nocturnal. On page 112, vol. 11, nnd&r Peniocereus greggii, add to iWustrsitions: Amer. Gard. 11: 474, as Cereus greggii; Journ. Wash. Acad. 12: 329. f. i; Succulenta 4: 71. On page 113, vol. 11, insert: , 2. Peniocereus johnstonii Britton and Rose, Journ. Wash. Acad. 12: 329. 1922. A climbing or clambering plant, up to 3 meters long, with a very large fleshy root sometimes weighing 14 pounds; stems and branches 3 to 5-angled, the young growth not pubescent; spines 9 to 12, brown to black, glabrous; upper radial spines short, stubby, swollen at base, nearly black, the two lower light brown, elongated, bristle-like, reflexed; central spines i to 3, subulate, 4 to 8 mm. long; flower (only an old flower seen) about 15 cm. long; perianth-segments about 3 cm. long; the lower and outer ones bearing tawny hairs and long bristles; flower-tube slender, with prominent areoles on knobby projections and bearing tawny wool and bristly spines; fruit ovoid to oblong, about 6 cm. long, bearing prominent clusters of black spines, dry (?), many-seeded; seeds oblong, 3 mm. long or more, black, shining; seedhng dark purple; cotyledons very thick, triangular. Type locality: San Josef Island, off the east coast of southern Lower California. Distribution: Southern Lower California. This plant was always found growing up through bushes of Olneya tesota. Illustrations: Journ. Wash. Acad. 12: 330. f. 2; Succulenta 4: 73. Figure 248 shows a branch, old flowers, and seeds of the type Fig. 248.—Peniocereus johnstonii, showing branch, old flower, and seeds. On page 113, vol. 11, under Dendrocereus nudiflorus, insert: In 1922 Dr. L. H. Bailey sent us two photographs and some stem-sections (No. 806) which he had obtained from the Botanic Gar
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