Icosandria Monog. | Opuntia. 
learn, nor is it marked as having produced 
any in any of the different editions of the 
Hortus Kewensis, or Donn's Catalogue of the 
Cambridge Garden: but it has blossomed 
once with my brother in Yorkshire, to whom 
I have imparted all the succulent plants in my 
power. Its flowers, I understand, resembled 
- those of the other Opuntias.— The plant often 
arises erect to the height o£ fifteen or twenty 
feet, and the young branches become exsic- 
cated and fall off as new ones are produced ; 
$0 that the stem is i s simple, except at 
mic m top, where a few cruciated single- 
saigipted brane! 
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ranches appear.  Theolder ibe plant 
1e larger and more numerous the spines 
ome ;. until at length they cover the whole 
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