curassa- Q 
vica. 
LT 
Icosandria Monog.  Opuntia. 
fa:cundationem parvule albe (juniores non 
vidi). Pollen luteum. — Stylus validissimus 
teres erectus albidus, antheras paululum supes- . 
rans. Stigmala 3-4 itidem valida, et albida, 
inchrvatim erecta. 
. (Pin-pillow) articulis fragilibus cylindrico- 
ventricosis compressis valde divaricatis. - Opun- 
tia. (Curassavica) articulis. cylindrico-ventri-. 
cosis, compressis, spinis selaceis. .Mill. dict. 
ed. 8. no. T.— Cactus curassavicus. IWilld. sp. 
f^ p. 945.— Hort. kew. ed. 2. v. 8. p. 179.— 
puntia minima americana — spinosissima. 
Bradl. succ. 1. p. 5. 1.4. 
HaziTAT in Curassao. S. h. 
FroRn&ErT Jun. Jul. 
.IwTROD, 1690. 
x4 
* 
Í 
zs 
(major, 
Aned va 
jn Yorkshire, Its branches are so extremely 
brittle that ibey break off at tbe joints on 
the slightest touch, adbering to the flesh or 
clothes of any person coming in contact with . 
them; and create much pain and wrouble to 
disengage, as their long sharp prickles are 
thickly and reversely barbed with invisible 
points.. Miller says it is called Pin-Pillow in 
the West [ndies, from the appearance whic 
yere » branches have to a pincusbion stuck 
- pi 18, k ^ A. 44 
cultivate three varieties of the Pin-pillow, VIZ 
| ramis spinisque majoribus, magis" 
minoribus quam J^ 
