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feet seven mches, Us nbs amount to forty-four All our plants were procured with gn,, ,.,bonr, and sent ...an , d Id 
xnUes, over the roughest country m the worid from San Lnis Potosi, Mexico, to the coast, for shipping, and pr os ,, 
the Royal Gardens by Fred Stan* Esq It flowers through a good part of the v,ar, but, in comparison with tho bulky 
trunk, the blossoms are qmte inconsxderable and void of beauty." The summit of the trunk is crowned with a dens, ma L 
of tawny wool, concerning which it is remarked, that "this wool covers the whole own of the pla.it, and is a few in.l.es 
deep, and we are much mis- 
taken if it is not a tuft of this 
substance, taken from an Echi- 
noca'-tus Yimaga, which con- 
stitutes that botanical curiosity 
from Mexico, long in the pos- 
session of the late Mr, Lambert 
(now at the British Museum), 
known under the name of the 
* Muff Cactus. 9 A small quan- 
tity taken off the plant may, 
by handling and admitting air 
within the staple, be distended 
to a considerable size. An 
entire mass from a good-sized 
plant, thus treated, might be 
made to assume the cylindrical 
form of the specimen alluded 
U>»—£ot. Mar/., t. 4559. 
243, AcONITUM SINENSE. 
Siebold. A hardy plant of 
the order of Crowfoots. 
Flowers deep violet, ap- 
pearing in the autumn. 
Native of Japan. (Fi 
116; a represents a flower 
of A. autumnale by way of 
contrast.) 
We have now two perfectly 
distinct autumnal Asiatic 
Monkshoods in cultivation ; 
one the A. autumnale, the other 
Siebold's A. sinense. The latter 
forms a stem from one and a 
half to two feet high, slightly 
downy, round, with regularly 
5 -parted leaves, the segments 
of which are incised, marked 
with a deep middle vein, and 
recurved a little ; the flowers 
few, deep violet, on woolly and 
glandular peduncles ; the hel- 
met hemispherical, with no 
visible peak. The former is , m _ . . 
similar in foliage, except that the lobes of the leaves are much longer, and quite falcate, the flowers larger, in a clow 
erect raceme, pale violet, with a pubescent stalk, and a more compressed helmet, with a Ion* curved peak <ih.s 
is not shown at a, in consequence of the foreshortening.) Either of them may be the A. Napelh, of Onmberg. 
g- 
Both are distinguished from the A. japonkum by the deep falcate divisions of the leaves, and long racemes of doners. 
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