. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. APPENDIX. 257 On page loi, vol. i, under Opuniia puhescens, add the synonym: Cactus pubescens Lemaire, Cactees 87. 1868. On page 102, vol. i, under Opuntia curassavica, add to illustrations: Dillenius, Hort. Elth. 2: pi. 295, as tuna; Loudon, Encycl. PI. 413. f. 6897, as Cactus curassavicus; Knorr, Thesaurus pi. On page 102, vol. i, insert: 80a. Opuntia abjecta Small, sp. nov. Prostrate, often growing in large irregular patches on almost bare limestone or where some sand and humus has accumulated, irregularly
. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. APPENDIX. 257 On page loi, vol. i, under Opuniia puhescens, add the synonym: Cactus pubescens Lemaire, Cactees 87. 1868. On page 102, vol. i, under Opuntia curassavica, add to illustrations: Dillenius, Hort. Elth. 2: pi. 295, as tuna; Loudon, Encycl. PI. 413. f. 6897, as Cactus curassavicus; Knorr, Thesaurus pi. On page 102, vol. i, insert: 80a. Opuntia abjecta Small, sp. nov. Prostrate, often growing in large irregular patches on almost bare limestone or where some sand and humus has accumulated, irregularly branched; joints suborbicular, sometimes nearly subglobose, oval, or broadly obovate, mostly 4 to 8 cm. long, very thick, frequently turgid, light green, loosely attached to each other; leaves ovoid to conic-ovoid, 2 to 3 mm. long, ascending and shghtly curved upward, green or purpHsh; glochids yehowish; spines setaceous-acicular, mostly solitary, brown, or reddish purple, mottled light and dark, becoming chalky gray when dry; the larger ones 2 to 6 cm. long; flowers usually solitary on a joint; berry urceolate, i to cm. long, somewhat tuberculate, red or purple-red, rounded at base; umbilicus relatively broad, concave; seeds few, flattish, about 4 mm. wide. On edge of hammock, southern end of Big Pine Key, Florida. Type collected in May 1921 by J. K. Small, preserved in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. Similar to Opuntia drummondii but with shorter joints, longer and more slender spines, and different fruit. On page 105, vol. i, under Opuntia drummondii, add to illustration: Journ. EHsha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 34: pi. 13, 14. , On page 105, vol. i, under Opuntia tracyi, insert: Type Locality: Biloxi, Mississippi. Distribution: Southern Mississippi, southeastern Georgia to northern Florida. On page 105, vol. i, insert: 86a. Opuntia impedata Smah, sp. nov. Prostrate, ultimately copiously branched, the joints often piled several layers deep and forming viciously a
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