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The Cactaceae; descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family Volume 2
The Cactaceae descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family Volume 2 Author:Nathaniel Lord Britton This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...42, as Cactus serpentinus; Bonpland, Descr. Pi. Rares pl. 36; Van Geel, Sert. Bot. 3: pl. 17, the last two as Cactus ambiguus; Ab... more »h. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. Miinchen 19: pl. 2; Cact. Journ. 1:59; Curtis's Bot. Mag. 64: pl. 3566; Dict. Gard. Nicholson 1:f. 410; Forster, Handb. Cact. ed. 2. f. 95; Gartenflora 31: pl. 1079, f. 2. c; Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 17: pl. 12; Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 16: pl. 11, 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 Botanical 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: 424. 1909. Cereus hirschtianus Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen 130. 1897. Stems columnar, erect, slender, 10 mm. in diameter; ribs 10, somewhat acute, 3 mm. high; radial spines 7 to 9, slender, 4 to 5 mm. long; central spines 1 to 5, the lower one stouter and porrect; flowers probably white, 5 to 6 cm. long, funnelform; perianth-segments spreading, acute; stamens numerous, somewhat exserted; ovary and tube very spiny; fruit not known. Type locality: Nicaragua. Distribution: Known only from the type locality. This species differs from N. guatemalensis in its habit, more slender stem, its spines, which are much more slender and delicate but not as long, and its smaller flowers. Weingart has written extensively (Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 23:108 to 111. 1913) about this species, reaching the conclusion that it and N. guatemalensis are the same. We have both types before us, and feel convinced that the species are distinct. Illustration: Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen f. 31, as Cereus hirschtianus. Figure 177 shows the flower of a cotype specimen in the...« less