Cactaceœ of Northeastern and Central Mexico Together with a Synopsis of the Principal Mexican GeneraU.S. Government Printing Office, 1909 - 39 pages |
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1.-Echinocactus 1.-Mamillaria areoles Ariocarpus Astrophytum barbed bearing beautiful Botanical branches bristles Britton and Rose Cactaceæ cacti cactus cactus spines called pitahaya capricornus cardones central Mexico Cerei Cereus chilitos closely allied Coahuila collected color columnar conglomeratus Coryphantha crimson cylindrical Echino Echinocactus Echinocereus edible fruit fishhooks fleshy floral leaves garden genera genus glochidia greggii groove groups growing Guadalajara Icamole Jalisco laria locally known longihamatus Lophophora williamsii Lower California Mamil Mamillaria Melocactus Mexican Mexico Monterey multicostatus Myrtillocactus geometrizans National Herbarium nopal nopalillo northern Mexico Nuevo Leon Opuntia leptocaulis Opuntioideæ organo Pachycereus Parras pectinate Pelecyphora Pereskiopsis perianth petals peyote pitahaya plants PLATE prickly pear Puebla radiating resembling Rhipsalis ribs rose-colored flowers San Luis Potosi scheerii Schumann seeds slender Smithsonian Report sometimes Sonora species of Echinocereus specimens spiny fruit stamens stems stigma stout subfamily subgenera tasajillo triangular trigonus tube tubercles tufts of wool tuna usually viznaga yellow
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Page 551 - RATHBUN, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in charge of the US National Museum. INCEPTION AND HISTORY. The Congress of the United States...
Page 555 - Pitnhaya is a fruit of the size of a closed fist, more or less, and this is the common size. It Is borne on certain very spiny and strange-looking thistles, which are leafless but have a few branches or long arms which take the place of branches and leaves. These are four angled and longer, each branch or arm, than the arm length of a man ; and between angle and angle a groove, and on all these angles and grooves at intervals are borne certain sharp and pointed spines as long as half the middle finger...
Page 539 - ... diseased. Milk from a diseased cow, from one about to calve, or from one that has very recently calved possesses abnormal qualities, and though it may not always be dangerous to use, it can not be considered as clean milk and should not be used as such. BACTERIA IN MILK. Bacteria are single-celled plants so small that they can not be seen with the naked eye and belong to the fungi order of plant life. To most people the word "bacteria...
Page 525 - Cactacese of Northeastern and Central Mexico, together with a Synopsis of the Principal Mexican Genera.
Page 551 - Cephaloccreus senllU. bristle-like spines. The large white flowers are night blooming, and the fruit contains a few large seeds imbedded in red pulp. Cephalocereus, in which the flower-bearing portion is differentiated from the rest in the form of a woolly head, or cephalium, near the apex of the...
Page 528 - Aiihalonium sulcatum, an appropriate name, but accoimng to the laws of priority not tenable. A hook-spined plant remarkable for its yellowish-green flowers crowded about the summit proved to be Echinocactus scheerii brevihamatus (pi. 3, fig. 3). The outer floral leaves are quite green, the innermost between green and yellow, its anthers yellow, and its stigma bright green. The tube of the perianth is scaly. The fruit is acid, but can be eaten.
Page 560 - pitayita del cerro," and is used in preparing a refreshing drink like lemonade.
Page 526 - California, under the direction of Mr. AS White, who has devoted much time and money to the establishment of a magnificent cactus garden. Smaller collections are those of Prof. EO Wooton, at Mesilla Park, New Mexico, and a garden established at Laredo, Texas, by Mrs. Anna B. Nickels, the veteran collector of desert plants. Mrs. Nickels has contributed much to our knowledge of Cactaceac and other xerophytes of Texas and northern Mexico.
Page 527 - Itot&chubeyanm (pi. 3, fig. 4), a small plant with a rosette of triangular tubercles, each marked with a median suture in such a way as to suggest the cloven hoof of a deer. It is recorded that Baron Karwinski, its discoverer, returned to Germany with only three specimens, one of which he sold for 1,000 francs. It was named by Lemaire in honor of his patron, Prince Kotschubey; though it was afterwards described as Anhalonium sulcatum, an appropriate name, but accoiumg to the laws of priority not...
Page 554 - H. triangularía the aréoles are borne in the notches of the crenations of its compressed wing-like ribs. Selinocereus, with large white fragrant night-blooming flowers, includes the queen-of-the-night cactus (Cereus grandiftorus) , known in Tamaulipas, Mexico, as organillo ; the common " night-blooming cereus" of our conservatories, Cereus pteranthus (C.