Editing Eastern Prickly Pear (section)

=== Burlington (Burlington Mountain) ===

The George Safford Torrey Herbarium at UConn contains a specimen of ''Opuntia humifusa'' collected on July 25, 1908 from Burlington, Connecticut (CONN Accession #101928).  The collection location is further identified as Burlington Mountain.<ref name="gsth"></ref>

In modern times, it doesn't appear that there is any landform known officially as Burlington Mountain within the town, a fact which complicates the task of trying to determine where this colony would have existed over a century ago.  Historical maps from the mid-1800s don't show any labelled landmark by the name of "Burlington Mountain", even though Burlington Mountain is referred to briefly in a few texts dating the first decade of the 20th century.  None of the historic texts provide any clues at what modern mountain was once called Burlington Mountain.