A Sharp Family. 



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black and tuberculated. 



Anhaloniuin fissuratum, Engelm. Cact , Mex. Boun. 75, is 

 found on limestone hills alon.^ the Rio Grande, and is considered 

 rare. The lower part top-shaped, ihe upper scarcely projecting 

 from the ground, two to four inches in diameter, hemispherical or 

 depressed and flattened, with five to eight rows of spirally arranged 

 tubercles. Flowers central, an inch in diameter, petals rose or 

 pink, stamens white, with orange-colored anthers. 



A. prismaticum, Sem., from the mountains in Mexico, is a 

 beautiful species, 6 to 12 inches in diameter, pale glaucous green, 

 the top surmounted with a dense wooly tuft. Tubercles in spir- 

 als, triangular, ^ to i inch broad, i to i^ inches long, terminat- 

 ing in an acute, terete point. Flowers large, petals in four rows, 

 silvery-white, stamens white or pale canary, anthers bright orange. 



A.Williamsii, Neber, from the 

 plains of Texas and northeastern 

 Mexico, is a singular plant, un- 

 sought by those who desire 

 only the beautiful in Nature. 

 This unique and rare plant is 

 not unlike a carrot in shape, 

 2>4 inches in diameter by 6 

 inches in height, of a dark glau- 

 cous green, the top depressed 

 and irregularly furrowed. Flow- 

 ers pale rose or flesh-color. 

 C. R. Orcuti. 



A Wn.LIAMSII NLHH^ 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Papilio Rutulus. — A new variety of this, from Nevada, is 

 named in the Canadian Entomologist, for October, by James 

 Behrens, after its discoverer, Herr V Amnion, of San Francisco. 



Catocola Elda. — This is a new .species, found at Portland, 

 Oregon, and also named by James Behrens in the Canadian 

 Enton.olcgist for October. 



A. H. Breckenfeld. — The San Francisco Microscopical 

 Society loses an able recording secretary by the resignation of 

 this gentleman, 10 whom this and many other journals have been 

 indebted for regular reports of the proceedings at the semi- 

 monthly meetings of this society. San Diego, we understand, is 

 to gain what San Pl'ancisco has lost, as Mr, Breckenfeld intends 

 to reside here in the future. 



The large autograph collection of the late Ben. Perley Poore, 

 will be sold at auction this winter in Boston. 



