The Cactaceae: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family, Volume 2Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 1920 - Cactus |
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Acanthocereus acuminate acute areoles Argentina axils Bahia base 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 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 trunk tube tubercled Type locality U. S. Nat usually Vaupel Weber wool yellow yellowish York Botanical Garden
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Page 131 - A specimen of this collection is now in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden and has been used in drawing up the above description, together with plants and specimens obtained by Dr.
Page 68 - Included; ovary and flower tube covered with small scales bearing felt and bristles In their axils; fruit large, burlike. dry, usually densely covered with clusters of deciduous spines and bristles; seeds large and black.
Page 121 - ... Heller, no. 939 (hb. Berl. & hb. Gr.); Point Christopher, Snodyrass & Heller, no. 932 (hb. Berl. & hb. Gr.). NARBOROUGH ISL. : eastern side, on barren black lava, Snodgrass & Heller, nos. 919 (hb. Berl. & hb. Gr.), .927 (hb. Berl. & hb. Gr.). " Note. — 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...
Page i - ... practical experiments to determine whether they are a better index of the values of foods for the maintenance and fattening of cattle than are the total digestible nutrients which have been used in the past. EDWARD B. MEIGS BUKEAU OP ANIMAL INDUSTRY, U. 8. DEPARTMENT or AGBICULTUBE SCIENTIFIC BOOKS The Cactaceae, Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family.
Page 165 - The Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in charge of the United States National Museum.
Page 110 - ... tinged with red ; tube of flower long, slender, with long hairs in the axils of the upper scales, but with clusters of spines on the lower part as also on the ovary; fruit spiny, ovoid, long-pointed, bright scarlet, fleshy, and edible; seeds black, rugose, with a large oblique hilum.
Page 220 - Europe, the above named is surely one of the most interesting for both the amateur and the professional cultivator. I received this curious plant through the kindness of Mr. NH Witt, of Manaos, Erlado do Amazonas, Brazil. He told me long before he was able to send specimens that a climbing species of a genus he was not able to determine, grew in the swampy forest, or Igape, on the Amazon river. Closely appressed to the stems of the trees, and fixed to them by numerous roots, in the region of the...
Page 54 - ... 1 cm. apart, scarcely woolly except toward the top; flowers 6 cm. long, somewhat tubular, purplish to brownish, the ovary without spines or hairs; fruit globular, about 6 cm. In diameter, naked but the surface somewhat warty; seeds black, shining, minutely pitted, 2 mm. long, oblique at base.
Page 113 - Baja California. Its local name is 'chilenola.' The manner of growth, with uplifted heads and prominent reflexed spines, gives the plants a resemblance to huge caterpillars."— Brandegee, Cal ас pr ST 2, 2:163, t 7.
Page 108 - Stems elongated, branching, the largest ones seen 1 cm. in diameter and becoming spineless; branches densely velvety-puberulent, 8 mm. in diameter or less; ribs about 8, inconspicuous ; spines about 8, appressed, dark, about 5 mm. long; flowers red, about 3 cm.