Editing Eastern Prickly Pear (section)

=== Old Lyme (General Area & McCurdy Road) ===

The George Safford Torrey Herbarium at UConn contains a specimen of ''Opuntia vulgaris'' collected in Old Lyme, Connecticut on April 21, 1941 by Wilfred J. Latham (CONN Accession #161630).<ref name="gsth"></ref>  The elevation of the collection site is noted as 26 feet above sea level.  No further specifics are provided concerning the location of the colony from which the specimen was harvested.

The Yale University Herbarium contains a specimen of ''Opuntia humifusa vulgaris'' collected in Old Lyme, Connecticut by T. O. Hendrickson on September 29, 1988 (YPM CBS 016309).  No further specifics are provided concerning the location of the colony from which the specimen was harvested.<ref name="yuh"></ref>

The George Safford Torrey Herbarium at UConn contains a specimen of ''Opuntia compressa'' collected in Old Lyme, Connecticut on June 8, 1996 by Leslie John Mehrhoff.  The collection location is rather precisely revealed as the "east side of McCurdy Road near entrance to Old Lyme Country Club".<ref name="gsth"></ref>  Since the collection date for this specimen is relatively recent, there is a good possibility that the cactus colony from which it was harvested still exists.  However, the fact that the specimen was collected from the "Old Lyme Country Club" suggests that it may have been from a cultivated garden.