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San Luis Potosi (Hschauzier of 1891).”"-—Coulter Cont U S Nat Hb 3:95 CACTUS ESCHAUZIERI Coulter. “Depressed-globose, 3 cm in diameter, simple: tubercles broader at base, 6-8 mm long, with naked axils: spines all pubes- cent; radials 15-20, with dusky tips, the jateral 10-12 mm long, the lower weake1, shorter and curved, the upper shorter, solitary central spine reddish, slender, somewhat twisted, usually hooked up- wards, 15-20 mm long: flowers red (7): fruit reddish (?), ovate, about 10 mm long: seeds reddish, oblique-obovate, 1.2 mm long, pitted, with subventral hilum. Type in Herb. Coulter. San Luis Potosi (BHschauzier of 1891).’—Coulter Cont U § 1902. Whole No. 115 Nat Hb 3:104. CACTUS PRINGLEI Coulter. Globose (?), 5 em in diameter: tuber- cles short-conical, about 6 mm long, with very woolly axils: radial spines 18-20, se- taceous-bristly and radiant, 5-8 mm long, central spines 5-7 (usually 6), stout ana horny, more or less recurved, spreading. 20-25 mm long; all straw-colored, but the centrals darker: flowers deep red (dark er, even brownish outside), 8-10 mm long: fruit unknown. Type, Pringle of 18% 1a Herb. Gray.’’—Coulter, Cont U S Nat Hb 3:109. CACTUS MACULATUS Coulter. em, simple: t “Obovate-cylindrical, 6 by 8 em, some- what cespitose: tubercles ovate, terete, 10 mm long, grooved to the base, with na- ked axils: radial spines 10 or 11, straight and spreading, rigid, blackish (becoming ashy with age), black-tipped, 12 mm long; central spine large, more or less spotted. erect, 25-35 mm long: flower 13 mm long, pinkish: fruit unknown, Type in Herp. Coulter, San Luis Potosi (Eschauzier of 1891).",—Coulter Cont U S Nat Hb 3:117. CACTUS BRUNNEUS Coulter. “Obovate-cylindrical, 3 by 6 cm, simple. tubercles ovate, grooved to the base, 5-6 mm long, with woolly axils: radial spines 11-15, spreading, rather rigid and brown- ish (lighter with age), 8-10 mm long; cen- tral spine much larger, 20 mm long, hooked: flower and fruit unknown. Type in Herb. Coulter. San Luis Potosi (Es- chauzier of 1891),’”-—Coulter Cont U S Nat Hb 3:117. CACTUS DENSISPINUS Coulter, “Globose, 7.5 ecm in diameter, simple: tubercles short, with woolly axils: radia, 19. The West American Scientist. 180 spines about 25, erect-spreading, slende but rigid, yellow (brownish to black with age), unequal, 8-10 mm long; centra: spines 6, a little longer (10-12 mm) and straight, more rigid and darker, black tipped: seeds obovate, reddish-brown, » mm long. Type in Herb. Coulter. San Luis Potosi (Eschauzier of 1891). Very easily distinguished by its dense, erect spines, which so completely cover the plant as to give it the appearance of. a large chestnut burr.’’—Coulter Cont U §& Nat Hb 3:96-97. Mammillaria castanoides, M. Wegner, M. densispina, and M. fuscata, are prob ably ail identical with this species, RAMIREZ, JOSE: —et Gabriel V. Alcocer: Sinonimia vulgat y cientifica de las plantas mexicanas. Mexico, 1902. 160 p. From the author. Dr. Ramirez records the following com mon names of cacti: é Peyote—Anhalonium fissuratum, lewini, et williamsii. . Peyotl—Anhalonium ‘fissuratum, lewinis et williamsii. Hikori—Anhalonium lewinii et williamsi:. Ho—Anhalonium lewinii et williamsii. Wakowi—Anhalonium lewinii et wil _ jamsii. Organo—Cereus marginatus. Cabeza de viejo—Cereus senilis. Juneo espinoso—Cereus serpentinus. ‘Xoalactl—Cereus speciosissimus, Xnuntzutzuy—Cereus tetragonus. Bizgnaga de chilitos—Echinocactus eorni- gerus. Junco—Mammiliaria coronaria. Biznaga—Mammilliaria pusilla et sphaer ica. 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