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naidi n I a modification ol structure comm 

 ktionship of Indian I neitlicr with -. 



nor Asphodels, all of which contain 

 Tlir.-iiu-li RJupsatis, which is said to ha i 

 Purslanes, to which also the curved eml 

 indicates an approach. !»•■ Candolle furtbi i 

 Picoids i M( -• mbryaei • i, which i 1 in thi 



embryo, and somewhat in placentation : but wbid 

 ing i" tin- perigynous rather than tb< 

 - ha- engage ■ ! the especial attention 



Nervations will be found in the | 

 circumstances connected with it is that tin 

 and an- formed with a Bpiral plate ..f coi 

 a thread. For an elaborate account of this 

 Currantworts, with which Indian Pigs were formerly 

 large number of points, ami esni cially in tin ir abundant albui 



In tin- country we scarcely know tin- In. Inn i 

 ugly shrubs without leaves, but the Pen skiae lin 

 ordinary description, an. I when old the columnai 



considerable strength. Indeed, according to Mr. Hindi / v^. ' 



100), Humboldt ; ol Buch plant-, • 



■pedes, but taJl trees with stems yielding wood suitabli ford i , 



-. It has been well observed b) Dr W 



■ •■I. 1. p. 269 i that the confusion i • 

 the < >rder of Indian Figs, is without a paralli I, owing !•• th< 

 bad descriptions at once of writers, cudi 

 the so-called Bpecies are in manj cae 

 ni.i-t tritliiiL' nature. 



America is the exclusive Btation of ti. 

 to be native of any other part of the world. In that 

 are abundant in the tropics, ■ Kb i diug a Bhort d 

 both to the north and the south. J'.- Candolle Btates that 

 north latitude i- tin. northern limit of tin- Ord< r : but it 

 wild or naturalised in Long Island, in latitude 42° north, and t! 

 whereabout 19°, in the Rocky Mountains Thosi which 

 ralised in Europe, Mauritius, Arabia, and China, are i ithi i 

 &c, or, it reall) Indian Figs, bavi been introdt 

 themselves in situations suitable to their habits, have taken | 

 actual natives : in Europe thi- .1... - not i utt nd beyond the towi 

 latitude. There isno reason for supposing that tin 

 Theophrastus, as Sprengel asserts ; the account of tin I 

 t.> anything now known, rather -nit- some tn i I 



places are the favourite stations of Indian Figs, for which 

 in consequence of the imperfect evaporating pon - ••! •. . 

 a- De Candolle has shown, accounts for the excessively 

 For ^. ographical observations a e .'/ I 



The fruit is very similar in it- propertii - to that 

 ing and agreeable to the taste, in others mucil ! 



palliatives of intermittent ami bilious 

 juice. The fruit ofOpuntia vulgaris ha- tin- pro] 



wh.0 cat it. That of I ». Tuna i- ■■! the rich -t carmi. 



employed at Naples as a water-colour. The iuii 

 being slightly milky, and at tin- same turn 

 imt (inly the succulent fruit <>!' the Order, but is 1 

 ill-conditioned ulcers.— ' The fruit •■! 1'. i 



torant The great flesh) Btems ol -..me Mexican 

 remarkable specimen of this kind is describi I by Sit W II 

 Chronicle, 1845, p. 13*2. Mr. Darwin found that . 

 principal kin.ls of food of the land-tortoises in tin I 



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