The Cactaceae: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family, Volume 2 |
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Acanthocereus acuminate acute areoles Argentina axils Bahia Brazil bristles Britton and Rose broad brown brownish Cact cacti Cactus Candolle central spines Cephalocereus Cereus Cleistocactus collected by Dr columnar Contr diameter Distribution Dyck Ecuador elongated Enum erect Eulychnia exserted figure filaments flowering areoles flowering branch funnelform Gard Gartenz genus Gesamtb glaucous green greenish hairs Handb Harrisia Herb Hort Hylocereus Illustrations inner perianth-segments white joints Kakteenk Lemaire Lemaireocereus Leptocereus long or less meters high Mexico Monatsschr numerous oblong obtuse outer perianth-segments ovary ovary and flower-tube Pachycereus perianth Peru Pfeiffer photograph taken Pilocereus Plant of Cephalocereus PLATE radial spines ribs Riccobono Rümpler Rümpler in Förster Salm-Dyck Schumann seeds black Selenicereus short shows a flower slender sometimes species specimens spiny stamens Stems stigma-lobes stout style subulate Tehuacán thick tips Trichocereus tube tubercled Type locality U. S. Nat usually Vaupel Weber wool yellow yellowish York Botanical Garden
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Page 119 - this species is a very peculiar one, "from its long, brown, non-pungent spines, which clothe the stem so densely that its surface is invisible. I have never before seen a species of the genus with such short filaments as in this. The petals are also uncommonly narrow.
Page 184 - Nothing is positively known of its native country ; but it happens that I have in my possession a drawing made in Antigua, undoubtedly of this species ; so that it is probably a native of that island.
Page 220 - of the trees, and fixed to them by numerous roots, in the region of the yearly inundation, there creeps a cactus with the habit of a Phyllocactus, but armed with very sharp spines. It is so closely connected with the plant on which it grows that one must look carefully to distinguish it.
Page 145 - numerous, small. The genus is named in honor of William Harris, superintendent of Public Gardens and Plantations of Jamaica, distinguished for his contributions to the knowledge of the flora of that island. The
Page 148 - cm. thick, the base flat, the top bluntly pointed, strongly tubercled when young, the tubercles low-conic, about 4 mm. high, about 1.5 cm. from tip to tip, bearing a deciduous triangular-lanceolate scale
Page 38 - named for Charles Deering, whose deep interest in the botanical exploration of Florida and in the preservation of its hammocks from destruction and its rare native plants from extermination, enabled
Page 116 - P. DC. possesses the largest seeds of Cereus known to me. There are only a few in each fruit, bedded in the crystalline red pulp. Several varieties of this species occur in gardens. There are two very pronounced forms at La Mortola. One has weaker and more serpentine stems, with smaller spines and smaller flowers.
Page 72 - the flower, and finally the fruit, completely concealed in the long wool; ovary covered with small, pale, imbricated scales; flower-tube also covered with imbricated scales, but these larger and pinkish, pointed; flowers doubtless opening at night, but still expanded at 8 o'clock in the morning; tube proper
Page 164 - recovers very rapidly by the formation of a heavy callus over the wounded spot. If it is wounded in the rainy season, however, bacterial decay sets in very rapidly and a large plant may be destroyed in less than a week as a result of a small
Page 68 - round, about 6 mm. in diameter and about half that distance apart, densely covered with short, light gray wool; spines all slender, spreading, yellowish brown, irregularly