. The first [-fifth] reader of the school and family series. 1. CacCus hexagotuis, Four-angled cactus, xi. 1, w.,35 f., Jl -Au., S. Am. 2. V. spec^-osisshaus, Beautiful cactus, xl. 1, cr., 3 f., Jl., S. Am. 3. C. fiagilbformis^ Creeping or.^nake cactus, xi. 1, pk , 6 f., , Peru. 4. C. opitntia. Prickly-pear , xi. 1, y.,2 f., , Mexico. 5. C. Pin-pillow cactus, xi. 1, v., 6 f., ^Jl., S. C. pn-eskia. Gooseberry cactus, xi. 1, w., 5 f, , W. Indies. 7. C. cactus, xi 1, pk , 2 f., Jn., W. Indies. 8. Ecliinocactus mammillarioides
. The first [-fifth] reader of the school and family series. 1. CacCus hexagotuis, Four-angled cactus, xi. 1, w.,35 f., Jl -Au., S. Am. 2. V. spec^-osisshaus, Beautiful cactus, xl. 1, cr., 3 f., Jl., S. Am. 3. C. fiagilbformis^ Creeping or.^nake cactus, xi. 1, pk , 6 f., , Peru. 4. C. opitntia. Prickly-pear , xi. 1, y.,2 f., , Mexico. 5. C. Pin-pillow cactus, xi. 1, v., 6 f., ^Jl., S. C. pn-eskia. Gooseberry cactus, xi. 1, w., 5 f, , W. Indies. 7. C. cactus, xi 1, pk , 2 f., Jn., W. Indies. 8. Ecliinocactus mammillarioides., Meloncactus, xi I, y and r , 6 in, , Chili. 1. Who hung thy beauty on such rugged stalk\Thou glorious flower ? Who poured the richest varying radiance, oer thy ample , like a mesh, tliose tissued stamens laidUpon th) crimson lip ? Lone, oer thy leafless stem,Thou biddst the queenly rose, with all her budis,Do homage, and the green-house peerage bowTheir rainbow coronets—Mbs. MamTtiillaria ccespitosi,a Cactus flower of the Up-per Missouri. 2. Thus beautifully writes an Ameiieanpoetess of a beautiful flower of the roughcactus family. And this family is exclu-sively American, not one of its eight hund- 2d DiV. OF . VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY, OR BOTANY. 159 red species having ever been found, as native, in any otherpart of Avorld. Tlie name by wliich the kinds of cactuscommon in the Northern and Middle States are known, isjyrickljj pear. Tlie absence of leaves in most of the species,and the presence of very showy flowers, render this family re-markable. The plants consist chiefly of a fleshy stem, some-times globular or egg-shaped, sometimes cylindrical, triangu-lar, and even flat, but always armed with prickles. 3. The cactus is found abundantly in Mexico, and is paint-ed on the flag of the Mexicans, and stamped on their money;Of its many species, the night-blooming cereus^ is perhaps themost remarkable, not so much on account of its large w
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