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this family of plants, it may be | 
mentioned, that if collectors cut off | 
the top of any of the Cacti which 
they may find in flower, and send 
it with the flower on it to eee 
the seeds will perfect themsely 
and ripen on the passage home, 
from the supply of moisture con- 
tained in the divided part. 
With regard to the culture of the 
Cacti in this country, it is found that, 
generally speaking, they ought to 
have a season of complete rest fol- 
lowed by one of violent excitement ; 
that is, they ought to be kept almost | 
without water from October to 
March, and then watered profusely 
while they are coming into flower. 
They ought all to be grown in pots 
well drained with cinders, instead of 
potsherds, as the latter retain too 
much moisture for the delicate and 
succulent roots; and they all enjoy 
bottom heat, which makes them 
throw out abundance of fibrils. 
When received late in the year, that 
is to say in October or later, they 
should not be potted till the following 
spring ; and when raised from seed, 
(which is frequently sent over, even 
in dead specimens,) the seed should 
be sown in silver sand, and the 
young plants when transplanted | 
should not be watered for several 
days. 
Cazsabp'inta, Pluk.—Leguminése. 
—The splendidly-flowering plant, 
known in the West Indices by the 
name of the Barbadoes Flower-fence, 
which was formerly included in this 
genus, is now called Poincidna. It 
should be grown in a mixture of loam 
and peat, with abundance of room 
for its roots; and, though generally 
considered a stove plant, it is found 
to live in the open air in London and 
Paris, if slightly protected during 
winter. It is propagated by cuttings 
struck in sand, in a moist heat under 
glass. The other plants belonging 
to the genus are seldom found in 
British gardens. 
CALCEOLARIA. 
Caua'mrewis, D. Don—See Ec- 
CREMOCA/RPAS. 
Catanpri'nta. — Portulécee. — 
Peruvian and Californian plants, 
with fleshy leaves and showy flow- 
ers, generally treated as annuals, but 
most of which will live two or three 
years in a greenhouse. There is 
some confusion about the specific 
names; the plants figured in the 
Botanical Magazine as C. speciosa, 
and ©. grandiflora, being quite dif- 
ferent from those figured under these 
names in the Botanical Register, 
and known by them in the London 
nurseries. Of the kinds sold in the 
London sisi’ C. arenaria has 
| small flowers, and is not worth grow- 
ing ; C. speciésa, Lind. (Talinum 
cili jatum, Bait et Pavon,) is a Cali 
fornian annual, with beautiful rich 
| crimson Gowers which seem reclin- 
ins on their bed of dark green leaves, 
and which have no fault but that of 
closing at four o’clock in the day; 
C. grandi jiora, Lind., the flowers of 
which, notwithstanding its name, 
are muca smuller than those of the 
C. d’scolor, Lind. ; the latter being 
one of the most splendid flowers that 
will grow in the open air in England. 
The seeds of the latter two species 
(both of which grow rather tall) are 
generally raised on a slight hotbed, 
but they may be sown in a warm 
border in the open air in April, when 
they will flower in June. 
Catcargous Soits.—Scils con- 
taining a considerable portion of 
lime or chalk, mixed with sand or 
loam, and decaying vegetable and 
animal matter. Calcareous soils 
are generally productive ; and when 
manured, they retain and give out 
slowly the nourishing parts of the 
manure longer than any other kind 
of soil. 
Cauceo.a ria. — Scrophulérine. 
—Perhaps no plants hybridize more 
freely than the different species of 
this genus ; and what is remarkable 
is, that the shrubby kinds appear to 
