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616. The flowering of this wonderful plant in England must be considered one of the triumphs of Horticulture. It has been long known to science, very imperfectly at first, from accounts brought by W. H. Emory of a gigantic Cactus which he saw in 1847 during his military reconnaisance from the Missouri River to San Diego in California, and who figured it in several plates that accompany his Re­ port (pp. 72—79). From seeds brought by Mr. Emory to Dr. Engelman, of St. Louis, that botanist pronounced it to be probably a species of Cereus, but it was not till Dr.

6533. CEREUS Fendleri. Native of New Mexico. Nat. Ord. —Tribe Echinocacteæ. Genus Cereus, Haworth; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. ) Cereus (Echinocereus) Fendleri; simplex v. parce e basi ramosus, ovoideus v. sub­ cylindraceus, costis 9–12 tuberculato‑interruptis, areolis orbiculatis juniori­ bus tomentosis, aculeis basi bulbosis, radialibus 7–10 rectis curvisve, inferi­ oribus robustioribus, infimo 4‑gono albido, sequentibus 2 obscuris ceteris albis v. fusco­variegatis, superioribus tenuioribus pallidis, summo elongato robusto incurvo v.

Grandiflorus. When we look at the strange forms of the stems of many of this curious tribe of plants, and the grandeur and beau­ ty, whether of form or colour, of the blossoms of others, we cannot wonder that this family should become favourites with the cultivators of the present day; when, thanks to our extended commercial intercourse with South Ameri­ ca, every year, I might almost say, every mouth, brings to light new forms among this singular race. Perhaps no limited portion of the New World can exhibit to the eye such assemblages of Cacteæ as are now to be met With in many collections in England and upon the continent, it has been, we cannot doubt correctly, said, that Great Britain, at this time, possesses more Cedars of Lebanon than Mount Lebanon itself can exhibit; so with equal jus­ tice we believe may this country boast the possession of more Cacteæ than fall to the lot of any single empire or republic in all the Western World, which portion of our globe alone is known to yield native species.

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