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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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Type locality: Near Ponce, Porto Rico. Distribution: Type locality and vicinity, and on the islands Mona and Desecheo. Plate xvii, figure 3, shows a fruiting branch of the plant from the type locality, paintedat the New York Botanical Garden in 1914. Figure 217 is from a photograph taken atthe type locality by Delia W. Marble in 1913. BRITTON AND ROSE, VOL. II
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1. Top of flowering branch of Harrisia fragrans. 2. Top of fruiting joint of Harrisia fragrans. 3. Fruiting branch of Harrisia martinii. (All natural size ) HARRISIA. 151 4. Harrisia nashii Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 35: 564. 1908. tCereus divergens Pfeiffer, Bnum. Cact. 95. 1837.Cereus nashii Vaupcl, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 23: 27. 1913. Slender, erect, 2 to 3 meters high; branches widely divergent, light green, 3 to 4 cm. thick,9 to 11-ribbed, the ribs rounded; areoles 2 to 2.5 cm. apart; spines only 3 to 6, gray, the longer ones15 mm. long; bud narrowly obovoid, obtuse, very short-pointed, its scales subtending many curledwhite hairs 6 mm. long or less; flower 1.6 to 2 dm. long; scales of the flower-tube linear, acuminate,1.5 cm. long, subtending a few hairs; fruit ellipsoid, 6 to 8 cm. long, 4 to 5 cm. thick, very stronglytubercled, at least when immature, the conic tubercles 6 to 8 mm. high. Type locality: Between Gonaives and Plaisance, Haiti. Distribution: Arid parts of Hispaniola

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