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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
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Dietrich, Verh. Ver. Beford. Gartenb. 10: 372. 1834. Cereus brevispinulus Salm-Dyck, Hort. Dyck. 339. 1834. Stems stout, often 3 to 5 cm. in diameter, bluish green to purple, strongly 4 to 6-angled; ribs ofyoung branches sometimes 2 to 3 mm. high; spines 1 to 4, 1 to 3 mm. long, dark, conic; flowers 25to 30 cm. long, very fragrant; the tube and throat 13 cm. long, swollen above, 5 cm. in diameter;outer perianth-segments linear, 12 cm. long; inner perianth-segments white, spatulate-oblong, 3to 4 cm. broad above, acuminate; filaments numerous, greenish to cream-colored, the upper rowreaching forward, upturned near the tip, 6 cm. long; lower stamens elongated, unequal, 8 to 12 cm. *The species was originally spelled in the Allgemeine Gartenzeitung Cereus donkelaarii but was indexed in thesame book as Cereus donkelarii. It is also written Cereus donkelaeri. -;Although the usual spelling of this name is with one 1, it was originally spelled by Link as it is here. BRITTON AND ROSE, VOL. II.
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M E Eaton del. Flowering branch of Selenicereus urbanianus.(Natural size.) SELENICEREUS. 201 long, weak, reclining on the lower side of the flower-tube and attached along the inner face of thetube for 7 to 8 cm.; tube-proper about 2 cm. long, yellow within; style 20 cm. long, yellowish green,bronzed above, thick but weak; stigma-lobes numerous, linear; ovary covered with long white silkyhairs and bristles, 10 to 12 mm. long; fruit globular, red, 6 to 7 cm. in diameter. Type locality: Mexico. Distribution: Mexico; known to us only from cultivated specimens or from plantsescaped from gardens. Cereus antoinii (Pfeiffer, Hnum. Cact. 114. 1837) is known only as a synonym of Cereusnycticallus. Cereus rosaccus, first mentioned by De Candolle (Prodr. 3: 471. 1828), is only agarden name which Pfeiffer (Enum. Cact. 114. 1837) referred to C. nycticallus. Cereus peanii Beguin first mentioned in Rebuts Catalogue (Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 4:173. 1894) has never been formally published. According to We

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