. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . selgeri {^Echinocereustuhei-osiis) ^ with weak, slender stems no thicker than a lead pencil,tuberous roots, and pretty rose-colored flowers with rose-coloredfilaments, sulphur-yellow anthers, and emerald-green 8-rayed northeastern Mexico this plant is called sacasil, a name whichis elsewhere applied to a species of Boussingaultia, a climbingplant with tuberous roots belonging to the Basellacese. There wereno columnar cardones, or organos, in the garden, though I was toldthat the common organo of the hedges of ce
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . selgeri {^Echinocereustuhei-osiis) ^ with weak, slender stems no thicker than a lead pencil,tuberous roots, and pretty rose-colored flowers with rose-coloredfilaments, sulphur-yellow anthers, and emerald-green 8-rayed northeastern Mexico this plant is called sacasil, a name whichis elsewhere applied to a species of Boussingaultia, a climbingplant with tuberous roots belonging to the Basellacese. There wereno columnar cardones, or organos, in the garden, though I was toldthat the common organo of the hedges of central Mexico {Cereusmarginatus) grows at Pezqueria Chica, in the State of Nuevo hicolor, with tubercled ribs and straight spines, is notuncommon in the vicinity of Icamole, but here the spines are notbright colored like those I afterwards found at Parras (pi. 13, fig. 2).Echinocactus capricornus (pi. 5, fig. 2) and Echinocactus cornigerus(pi. 13, fig. 6), two other species growing in the garden, are also Smithsonian Report, 1 908.—Safford. Plate
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