lcosandria Monog. — Cactus. 
Ons. This is the plant called Cactus nobilis ia 
Kew Garden: but the Cactus nobilis of 
cies. The present article when old is oblong. 
The spines are smaller than in most of the 
preceding species, and the bundles of them 
are perhaps more contiguous to each other. 
Ons. 2. All the plants of. this genus, as well as . 
the following one, are extremely interesting 
to the collector of succulents. They are very 
tender, so cannot be preserved but in a good, 
stove, and must have scarcely any water given 
them in the winter season, and if any, in their 
Miller speaking of them says : 
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