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The Cactaceae Volume 1 ; descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family
The Cactaceae Volume 1 descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family 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. 1919 Excerpt: ...thickest part, bearing few areoles and no spines; umbilicus slightly depressed in the center; seeds 1 to 8, about 4 mm. broad. Type locali... more »ty: Apalachicola, Florida. Distribution: Sandy soil from northern Florida to Pamlico Sound, North Carolina. In February 1916, Dr. J. K. Small visited the coastal islands near Charleston, South Carolina, for the purpose of collecting Gibbes's Opuntia frustulenta. He found this species very common on Folly Island and on the Isle of Palms, where it grows abundantly in the sand, and also very variable as to shape and size of joints. He says the joints break off easily and attach themselves to one's clothing like the sand spur, making progress over these islands difficult and painful. It is the common belief that this species rarely flowers. It usually flowers when first brought into cultivation, but rarely afterward, this doubtless being due to unsuitable greenhouse conditions. The fruit described was collected by Dr. J. K. Small, December 10, 1917, at Apalachicola, Florida, the type locality. According to Professor L. R. Gibbes, it is known as dildoes about Charleston. Illustration: Maund, Botanist 5: pl. 246. Plate xv11, figure 6, represents flowering joints of a plant sent from La Mortola, Italy, to the New York Botanical Garden in 1912; plate xvm, figure 1, shows the plant collected by Dr. Small on the Isle of Palms, South Carolina, in 1916. Herbarium specimens apparently representing a related species, were collected by W. L. McAtee at Cameron, Louisiana, in 1910 (No. 1955). 87. Opuntia tracyi Britton, Torreya 11: 152. F1g. 128.--Opuntia tracyi. 1911. Low, diffusely much branched, pale green, about 2 dm. high or less; older joints oblong to linear-oblong, flat, 6 to 8 cm. long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. wide, about 1 cm. thick; you...« less