- lOinches in diameter on the top, 
Which are fourteen, rise from a broad base, r 
+ Ad 
Sc a 
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oy 
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* ECHINOCACTUS oxygénus. 
Sharp-angled spiny Cactus. 
ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CACTEm. Juss. (Introduction to the 
o ee) u (Introduction to the Natural System of 
ECHINOCACTUS. Supra, fol. 1707. 
costis acutis repandis, 
E. oxygonus; glaucescens subglobosus 14-angularis, 
t Otto in Verhandl. des 
spinis patulis inegualibus, flore longissimo. Link e 
Pr. Gart. Vereins, vol. 6. t. 1. 
We have been favoured by Mr. Frederick Mackie with 
the figure of this species, which he received along with a 
large number of other rare and valuable succulent plants, 
belonging to the unrivalled collection of Mr. Hitchin, which 
he has recently added to his Nursery at Norwich. 
nded about 48 hours. The 
The flower remained expa 
Transactions of the Prussian 
species is thus described in the 
Horticultural Society :— 
“The stem is from 10 inches to a foot in height, nearly 
somewhat smaller below, and 
green colour. Its ribs, 
unning into an 
acute edge, ~The furrows are somewhat sharp; spines 
about 14, of various sizes, the outer generally larger, the 
Inner smaller; those more or less divaricate from each 
Other, these standing up nearly perpendicular ; all of a 
brown colour, cone-like, not flat, the younger surrounded 
nearly of a globular form, of a bluish- 
— ÁÀ——— 
* See folio 1707. 
