supplementary to Enci/c. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 179 



are combined together, and are broad and cucullate, but free at 

 the apex. The flowers are produced in great numbers, and, 

 although small, are very pretty, their colour being of a beautiful 

 pink. {Swt. Br. Fl.-Gard., March.) 

 C^'assiddcece. 



3356. ECHEVE^R/^ 



♦racembsa 0//0 tacemo%e.flowercd £23 or 2 o C Mexico 1836 C s.l The Botanist, no. 11 . 



" The plant flowered, in the Liverpool Botanic Garden, in 

 October 1836. It should be potted in light sandy soil, and 

 kept in the stove, or a sunny part of the green-house." {Bo- 

 tanist, Feb.) 



Qactdceec or Opuntidccce. 



1470. CA'CTUS 12592 speciftsa fno. 12. 



* vatAatexUisL Henstotr brick-red a. ZD sp.l .3 jn R Eng. hybrid 1828 C s.p The Botanist, 



" The irritability exhibited by the leaves of the sensitive plant 

 is a phenomenon with which most persons are familiar ; and 

 many of our readers have probably also witnessed the effect pro- 

 duced by touching the stamen of the common berberry. In these 

 and some other cases on record, certain parts of the flower or 

 leaves move, as it were spontaneously, upon being stimulated in 

 various ways, especially upon being slightly touched or shaken. 

 It has been noticed by De Candolie, that the stamens of the tribe 

 Opuntiaceee also show some degree of irritability ; and C. Dar- 

 win, Esq., informs us that he met with a small species of Cactus, 

 common on the arid plains of Port Desire, and Port St. Julian 

 in Patagonia, whose flowers possessed this property in a re- 

 markable degree; and it will be worthy the attention of all cul- 

 tivators of this interesting tribe to see whether they cannot 

 detect a similar property in other species. Upon thrusting a 

 straw, or his little finger, into the tube of the flower, he found the 

 stamens immediately collapsed round it, and that in a short 

 time the segments of the perianth also slowly closed together." 

 {Botanist, Feb.) 



3359. ECHINOCA'CTUS [3558. 



•mammillaridides i/ooA. Mammillaria-like *t IZ] gr i •.• Y.R Chili 1836 O 's.p Bot. mag. 



"Introduced by Mr. Hitchin from Chili, and now in the rich 

 collection of Cacteae of Messrs. Mackie of the Lakenham Nursery, 

 near Norwich. They justly observe, that the species appears in 

 the structure of the stem to be intermediate between Mammil- 

 laria and Echinocactus. It is covered with mammillae of a large 

 size, indeed ; but these are arranged in costse (ribs), which are 

 irregular, and slightly spiral ; but the flowers appear to be quite 

 those of the latter genus." {Bat. lieg., March.) 



*Mackie(}«^i Hook. Mackie's tt ID gr J ... Y.W Chili 1836 O s.p Bot. mag. 35G1. 



" This species is also from the rich collection of Messrs. 

 Mackie of the Lakenham Nursery, and, like E. mammillariiiides, 

 has a considerable affinily with the genus Mammillaria; but it is 



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