19? 
dcosandria Monog. —Opuntia. 
cochinel- Q.: (Cochineal) icio mortel suübiner- 
ifera. 
pet 
mibus.... Mill. dict. ed. 8. no. 6.—Cactus co- 
chine ifer. lion.. - pt. p. 670.—JV illd. sp. 
. pl. 9. p. 944 —MHort. kew. ed. 2. v. 3. p. 179. 
—Tuna mitior flore qup coch.nellifera. 
Dill. elth. 399. t. 997. f.3 
HanrrAT in America merid, S. b. 
FronEkr Jul.—Sept. 
Curr, ante 1688. 
Ons. "l'bis species has the smallest flowers of any 
in the genus known to me, 1t is the most 
proper to cultivate the Coccus Cacti, or Co 
chineal Insect, upon; because iis spines are 
. far smaller is in any other species, and 
consequently less annoy the hands topo: 
ed to collect the Cochineal from it. Ser e 
last species, although more spiny, 1 
grown for the Cochineal. And in all sip 
büity the insect would thrive very wel 
any of the species : yet perhaps best upon "ihe 
east s 
"Miller : P * This species is cultivated in the 
fields of New Spain, for the increase of thi 
. cochineal insects; hut it grows naturally in 
Jamaica, where it is probable the true cochi- 
neal might be discovered, if persons of $ 
were to search ^ the insects." 
eus C 
- cies Pr n gens of 
in a natural 
hb Gra duel) suberecta, articulis lanceo- 
ibus brevissimis, foliis tri« 
