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Horticultural and Botanical Notices, 



Mr. HitclieyHs Collection of Succulent Plants at Norwich. — In Vol. VIII. 

 p. 244'. we noticed that this fine and unequalled collection was about to be 

 disposed of, and there expressed our hope that it would be bought entire 

 by some society, or some emulous lover of plants. Mr. Hitchen, we are 

 pleased to learn, entertains the same feeling; and, in consequence, yet 

 retains the collection unsold, although applications have been made to 

 him, unsuccessfully, for parts of it. In a late communication, Mr. Hitchen 

 thus expresses himself on this point : — " After so many years have been 

 occupied, and much money spent in collecting them, I am desirous of their 

 going together where they may be seen. What an acquisition would they 

 be, from their great novelty, at the Birmingham new botanic garden ; or 

 that of Primrose Hill [were it formed], where, I am sure, they would 

 attract general attention." Mr. Hitchen has furnished us with a list of 

 his species of Cactese, except those of the genus Opuntia ; and we readily 

 insert it, from a conviction that it will much interest our botanical readers. 

 Although Mr. Hitchen does not enumerate the species he possesses of the 

 genus Opuntia, he passingly notices that, amongst his species, are " the 

 curious microdasys, rubescens, rosea, virgata, tunicata, decipiens, exuviata, 

 and cochenillifera, with the true cochineal insect alive upon it." 



Melocacti and Echinocacti : ingens 

 Otto, gibbosa, Ottonis, tenuispina, 

 tenuis (Mammillaria), tephracan- 

 tha, melocactiformis, coccinea 

 Gillies, GilliesK, multiplex, parvi- 

 spina, recurva, sulcata, latispina, 

 polymorpha, solitaria, centeteria, 

 magnimamma; oxygona Otto, blos- 

 soms a foot long ; cornigera Dec, 

 erinacea, depressa : New, and not 

 named, species from St. Kitt's, 

 from Buenos Ayres, from Rio 

 Grande, two from Mexico, two 

 from Brazil, and all the seeds of 

 Cacteae, brought by Mr. Cuming 

 from South America, which have 

 produced plants as large as nuts. 



Mammillaria atrata, angularis Otto, 

 casspitosa Sabn., densa Salin.,s\ib- 

 crocea Salm., Stella aurata Otto, 

 chrysantha Otto, coroniiria, dis- 

 color, flavescens, fuscata Otto., 

 fuscata var. Otto, geminispina, 

 geminispina var . from Mexico, mag- 

 nimamma, parvimamma, prolifera, 

 stellaris, cylindrica, formosa, spi- 

 nosa, tenticulata, Lehmannf, vivi- 

 para, depressa, eriacantha, ambi- 

 gua Gillies, sessiliflora Murray, 

 tubiflora Murray, criniformis Dec, 

 subangulJiris Salm., simplex Salm., 

 cornigera Dec, five from Mexico 

 not named, var., spines hooked, 

 small white-spined, six from vari- 

 ous places not named, 



Cereus multangularis, scopa Link, 

 senilis, strigosus, rosaceus Otto, 

 peruvianus, var. monstrosus, hys- 



trix Salm., eburneus Salm., cre- 

 nulatus Salm., albispinus Salm., 

 strictus T4^27/a(.,n6bilis,niger, chilo- 

 ensis, Royenz Link., lanuginosus, 

 candicans, repandus, subrepandus, 

 lae^tus, Deppei, Fitajdya, obtusus, 

 serpentinus, flagelliformis var. 

 minor, grandiflorus, gracilis, trip- 

 teris, speciosissimus, coccineus 

 triangularis var. minor, var. vari- 

 egatus, prismaticus, triqueter, ex- 

 tensus, setaceus, squamulosus, 

 myosurus, aureus, alpinus, andi- 

 coins, horizontalis, foliosus, pe- 

 largu, attalicus, sanguisorbus, 

 pentalophus Dec, reptans, lepto- 

 phis, cinerascens, hexangularis, 

 viviparus, sp. from Mexico Otto, 

 sp. from Buenos Ayres, and 

 several others, whose names or 

 habitat I know not. 



Epiphyllum speciosum, vars. rose- 

 coloured, darker, light scarlet, 

 dark scarlet, Ackermanni; Hitch- 

 enz, scarlet flowers near 8 in. in 

 diameter ; alatum, ramulosum, 

 Phyllanthus var. grandiflorus, 

 marginatum, crispatum, trunca- 

 tum, and several 'others from 

 Mexican seeds which have not 

 yet flowered. 



Hybrid Jenkinson/, Vandesfte, Cur- 

 tis/?', and others, Cereus, between 

 grandiflorus and speciosissimus ; 

 Cereus, between flagelliformis and 

 Epiphyllum speciosum ; and be- 

 tween speciosum and Hitchenf. 



