. 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. Gardening. ECIIIXOCACTUS 23. Echidne, DC. {f. ,,r,ji. Leni.). Dc-pressed- globose, 5-1 in. Ill di;i]ii.,:(-4 in. Iiit,-h: riljs : radial 7, broad, rii^id, spii-adiiig, yidlowisli, 1 in. or more long; ceiifral spiin- solitary and'si-arcely long-t-r than the others: Howers iirlKht vellow, 1 in. or mor
. 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. Gardening. ECIIIXOCACTUS 23. Echidne, DC. {f. ,,r,ji. Leni.). Dc-pressed- globose, 5-1 in. Ill di;i]ii.,:(-4 in. Iiit,-h: riljs : radial 7, broad, rii^id, spii-adiiig, yidlowisli, 1 in. or more long; ceiifral spiin- solitary and'si-arcely long-t-r than the others: Howers iirlKht vellow, 1 in. or more long. Mexico. 2t. Textosis, Hopf. Mostly depressed (sometimes gl(.liose), S-12 in. in diani., i-ti in. high, simple: ribs mostly 21 (sometimes 27, and in smaller specimens IM or 14) and undulate: spines stout and fasciculate, red- dish, compressed; the exterior G or 7 radiant, straight- ish or curved, une(iual, I., to four-tiftlis in. long in some cases, one and one-tifth to 2 in. in others, much shorter than the solitary and stout recurved cintial, which is sometimes one-sixth to H in. broad: flowers about one- tifth in. long, parti-colored (scarlet ..range white above). Texas and uortheasteru Mexico. 2.'). fimoryi, Engelm., var. rectispinus, Engelm. Fig. Globose, at length cylindrical: ribs l:!-21, obtuse and strongly tuberculafe : radial spines 7-U, very unequal, the :! upper ones in. long, the lower i;.j-:! in. long and iniler; the central very long (12-i:i in.), straight or slightly Southwestern United States and imrthern Mexico. 2G. reciirvus, Liidict (">tto. Rnb:. verv stout: ribs about , covereil with .lark r.'.l , the radials spreading, the central ..ne very stout. Mexico (f). 27. setispintis, Engelm. Subglobose, 2 fo thn-e and one-tifth in. in ili;ini.: ribs l:i," or , often undulate or somewhat interrupted: radial spines 14-16, setiform and H.'xiVde
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