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The Cactaceae - descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family (1919) (14760181506)
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Identifier: cactaceaedescri02brit (find matches)
Title: The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934 Rose, J. N. (Joseph Nelson), 1862-1928
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Publisher: Washington : Carnegie Institution of Washington
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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BRITTON AND ROSE, VOL. II
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M. E. Eaton dp) 1. Top of flowering branch of Leptocereus arboreus. 2. Top of stem of Lemaireocereus griseus. 3. Fruiting branch of Mediocactus coccineus. (All natural size.) LEPTOCEKEUS. Si 7. Leptocereus sylvestris sp. now Tree-like, up to 5 meters high; joints 2 to 3 cm. in diameter, 5 to 7-ribbed; ribs strongly crenate;areoles 1 to 1.5 cm. apart; spines light brown, long and acicnlar, the longest ones 9 cm. long; fruitsubglobosc, 7 to 8 cm. long, lacaring clusters of short spines, these early deciduous. Collected by Britton, Cowell, and Shafer in coastal woods, Ensenada de Mora, Provinceof Oriente, Cuba, March 20 to 29, 1912, No. 13060. Figure 117 shows a fruit of the type specimen and figure 118 a branch.
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