D e c, I. Hiftoria Tlantarum Succulent arum. 



Cereus Amerlcams Hexangularisl Small Six-rib'd t£ojCf| 5 



minor. 



CfnfUe, 



Lanta hzec in locis Saxofis na- ^T^His Plant is commonly 



fcitur, ubi formae columna- J found to profper among 



ris emittitramulosad tantam alti- Rocks, where it mil put forth 



tudin m, utfe fuftinere nequeant, 



fed deorfum inclinando radices 2.'\Foot 



its Pi liar- 1 ike Stems 



feveral 



in length, /booting up. 



unt,hiramufculi fexangularis funt|^/ ; ^ till it wants Strength to 



ormae, obfiti fpinulis, color iique\ ma intain it /elf and inclines 



plane ftraminei. [towards the Earth, and takes 



Root. The Stems of this fort are 

 Six-rib'd, hearing on the Edges 

 (mall Kjiots of Spines, of a Straw 

 Colour. 

 In -villa Regis vulgb Hampton- 1 j have feen this Plant in the 



Court, necnon in Horto Medico \q a r dens 



Hampton- Co 



Jmflelodamenfi vidi hanc plan- \ a „d Amfterdam; hut at neil 

 tam,quidem, fed in nullo horum \ tner f thofe places has it yet 



locorum flores ferentem me vidifie U r0( iuc y d any Flower 



memini. 



Earn facile propagabis, mod 6 

 in Terra earn digitum unum pro- 



It is eafily propagated, by fe 



ttng 



of the Stems 



Inch 



fundam . plantavcns jEftivis mend . \ deep in the Earth duri fhg 



bus, aquae parum, terram Jevio- I Summer Months. It requires 



Aerem vero cahdum cxigit wr ^ little Water, a light Soil 



rem, 



8c ficcum. 





and a warm dry Air 



B % 



Three 





