tuber- 
culata. 
3. 
Icosandria Monog. |. Opuntia. 
*€ Calling a plant a predi [as he truly says] may 
of expressing ear 
distinclions, but when said Scr in the proo 
of experience, or analogy, and in the face of dif- 
Jference, should have little weight. 
€6 ——— a species that stands reputed as the va- 
riety of another, is a whole race falsified on the 
records of science; and, as varieties are ever 
less anxiously attended to than species—a race 
exposed to the chance of being entirely over- 
looked." Botan. regist. l. c. 
Had but this author always written thus, O then 
that lovely plant* which blooms the first of all 
. our hard b 
only have escaped falsification ón the records of 
science ; but the still more humiliating eireum 
stance of being stigmatized with be € epithet « of 
*€ a florist's sort." AI to me, when à 
come as such only, from 
the inimitable cultivators of flowery Haarlem, 
sun thirty years ago. 
O. (Tuberculated) articulato-prolifer, articulis 
'ovato-oblongis utri inque — DM 
e lanu- 
u Qnm instructis Willd. enum. p- zs 
AB 
E «d 
Vigebat in hono celebr, Chels. ante A.D. 1818. 
Ozs. Subinermis, fasciculis spinarum mintit&rum 
albieantibus. Forte Opuntiz stricte, S Synops. 
succ. proxima, at articulis latioribus et utrinque 
* Scilla siberica, nobis in Bot. rep. iehgieereieo c 
(8-) siberica. Bot. magaz. 1025. 
