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6854 Erect with deep furrows long with 6 distant angles 
6855 Erect with deep furrows long with about 8 obtuse angles 
6856 Erect with deep furrows long with 4 compressed angles 
6857 Erect with deep furrows long slightly quadrangular with toothed angles 
6858 Erect with deep furrows long jointed with about 5 angles 
6859 Erect slender with shallow furrows jointed with 9 angles, Joints ovate, Spines as long as wool 
6860 Erect slender with shallow furrows jointed with 9 angles not glaucous. Spines white ; a variety of the last 
6861 Erect slender with shallow furrows long with 9 obsolete angles, Spines shorter than wool 
6862 Erect slender with shallow furrows long with 8 compressed wavy angles. Spines longer than wool 
6863 Erect slender with shallow furrows. Branches jointed few bluntly triangular 
6864 Erect slender with shallow fUrrows, Scarcely ang. Surface covered with variously imbric. lobed divisions 
6865 Erect slender with shallow furrows black with numerous brown spines longer than the wool 
6866 Erect slender with shallow furrows weak cylindrical. Surface covered with netted crossing furrows 
6867 Erect rounded below long elegant with about 9 angles. Spines snow-white weak. Wool very short 
6868 Erect with 18 close obtuse angles with bristly yellowish spines longer than the wool 
6869 Erect with deep furrows oblong with 7 angles 
6870 Creeping triangular rooting 
6871 Decumbent rooting 3-cornered, Spines fascicled divaricating seven two or three lines long 
6872 Creeping rooting 3-cornered with scarcely channelled angles. Spines 5-7 in stellate fascicles 
6873 Creeping rooting with about 5 angles 
6874 Creeping 5-cornered with subulate spines longer than the wool 
6875 Creeping rooting hispid with 10 angles 
6876 Creeping with 3 or 4 angles which are scarcely channelled. Spines 5-7 in stellate parcels 
6877 Erect, Joints broadly ovate-oblong. Spines subulate very long blackish 
6878 Erect, Joints broadly ovate-oblong. Spines subulate long yellow 
6879 Erect, Joints oblong and lanceolate. Spines of various shapes brownish black 
6880 Joints oblong and ovate. Spines of various shapes yellow, Fl. numerous solitary 
6881 Stem rounded. Branches ovate compressed flat. Spines solitary or 3 together subulate strong 
6882 Joints cuneate obovate decumbent. Spines variously shaped yellow 
6883 Erect, Joints obovate roundish glaucous. Stigma 6-lobed 
6884 Creeping prostrate. Joints ovate, Spines even numerous hair-shaped 
6885 Erect, Joints ovate elliptical. Spines even numerous short 
6886 Joints ovate oblong very thick. Spines unequal 
6887 Jointed proliferous, Joints oval. Warts with a cluster of spines the length of the wool 
6888 Joints ovate oblong unarmed 
6889 Erect, Joints lanceolate-oblong. Clusters of spines fuscous weak with one strong white spine 
6890 Erect, Joints oblong or oval. Spines numerous variable brown ; one very long straw-colored 
6891 Jointed proliferous. Joints ovate oblong with strong white spines longer than wool 
6892 Nearly erect, Joints lanceolate with even short spines. Leaves 3 lines long 
6893 Branches oblong with short soft hairs. Spines small 
6894 Branches oblong scarcely spiny 
6895 Joints very long slender compressed. Spines very long slender clustered white 
6896 Joints oblong with numerous stiff spines of which one is very long and white at base 
68P7 Joints brittle cylindrical ventricose compressed much divaricating 
6898 Joints brittle compressed short. Spines numerous variable white erect 
6899 Jointed proliferous. Joints lanceolate-glaucous. Spines bristly longer than wool 
6900 Joints brittle linear-lanceolate divaricating. Spines unequal 
6901 Proliferous smooth branched ensiform compressed serrated with a central woody rib 
6902 Branches ensiform compressed obovate with spreading teeth, Spines few setaceous longer than wool 
and Miscellaneous Particulars, 
Justice, in 1750, and recently by Braddick, near London, in the open air. This active horticulturist, having 
eaten with pleasure of the prickly pear in Virginia, was desirous of cultivating it here. He recollected that 
the plant in its wild state delighted in a dry soil, amongst rocks, near the skirts of the sunny sides of the 
forests ; and having heard that it would stand the open air in this country, he planted it in the compost 
described below, placed in a sheltered situation open to the sun. "The first plant that I turned out has lived in 
the open ground of this country for six or seven years, during which period it has endured one exceeding hard 
winter, and several trying springs ; and in all, except the two first years, it has never failed to ripen its fruit 
and seeds, so that it may be now considered decidedly acclimated. The compost used by me for growing the 
Cactus Opuntia, is the following : one half is carbonate of lime, for which lime-rubbish from old buildings 
will answer ; the remaining half consists of equal portions of London clay and peat-earth, having the acid 
neutrahsed by barilla : these are intimately blended and sifted. One square yard of this compost I conceive 
to be sufficient for one plant, which must be placed in the middle of a small artificial hillock, raised eighteen 
inches above the surface of the ground, which ground should be rendered perfectly dry, if not naturally so, 
by under-draining. Neither the leaves, flowers, nor fruit should ever be suffered to touch the ground, but they 
should as constantly as they are produced be kept from the earth by placing stones, pebbles, flints, or bricks 
under them, in imitation of artificial rock-work." {Hort. Trans, ii. 238.) 
C. Ficus indica is very common in Jamaica, and on it feed the wild sort of cochineal insect. The fruit is 
large and of a deep purple color, and when eaten dyes the urine of a bloody color. 
