The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . Fig. 176.—Fruit of Nycto-cereus serpentinus. Fig. 177.—Flower of Nycto-cereus hirschtianus. BRITTON AND ROSE, VOL. M E. Eaton del. 1. Top of branch of Eulychnia iquiquensis. 2. Top of stem of Lemaireocereus dumortieri. 3. Part of flowering stem of Nyctocereus serpenti?ius. (Natural size.) NYCTOCEREUS. 119 Known in Mexico as junco or junco cspinoso. Illustrations: Link and Otto, Ic. PI. Select, pi. 42, as Cactus serpcntinus; Bonpland,Descr. PI. Rares pi. 36; Van Geel, Sert. Bot. 3: pi. 17, the last


The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . Fig. 176.—Fruit of Nycto-cereus serpentinus. Fig. 177.—Flower of Nycto-cereus hirschtianus. BRITTON AND ROSE, VOL. M E. Eaton del. 1. Top of branch of Eulychnia iquiquensis. 2. Top of stem of Lemaireocereus dumortieri. 3. Part of flowering stem of Nyctocereus serpenti?ius. (Natural size.) NYCTOCEREUS. 119 Known in Mexico as junco or junco cspinoso. Illustrations: Link and Otto, Ic. PI. Select, pi. 42, as Cactus serpcntinus; Bonpland,Descr. PI. Rares pi. 36; Van Geel, Sert. Bot. 3: pi. 17, the last two as Cactus ambiguus;Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. Munchen 19: pi. 2; Cact. Journ. 1:59; Curtiss Bot. Mag. 64:pi. 3566; Diet. Gard. Nicholson i:f. 410; Forster, Handb. Cact. ed. 2. f. 95; Gartenflora31: pi. 1079, f. 2. c; Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 17: pi. 12; Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 16: , f. 1 to 3 ; Riimpler, Sukkulenten f. 65, as Cereus serpentinus. Plate xv, figure 3, shows the flower of a plant in the collection of the New York Botan-ical Garden. Figure 176 shows the fruit collected in Mexico by H. H. Rusby in 1910. 2. Nyctocereus hirschtianus (Schumann) Britton and Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 42


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