OSome of which had open flowers (it being close to lunchtime).
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On the outskirts of Chilecito we stopped in the entrance road to a very attractive cement works and scrabled up a hillside composed of loose rock to be met with splendid specimins of Gymnocalcyium sagionis.
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Stuart
If you let the T. candicans grow up they may do this......
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which takes some beating for form and colour.

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I'm not sure I wrote this down correctly but my notes say Trichocereus vatteri.

And a final Tephrocactus.
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Tephrocactus articultus var ?

And there was the remains of this desert fungus. It looked like a puff ball to us.
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The remains of the railway ran through it...

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Plan view of Pyrrhocactus bulbocalyx to go with Davids' elevation
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And another Gymno.
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Lest everyone thinks I ignored all the other plants I offer this:
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Gymnocalycium riojense var kolsnickyanum (I hope)