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Vll. Nova Literaria PhyficO'Medica curiofaj 
containing a Dejcription of the Cereus which 
flowered at Norimberg m the Year 17J0. Conf 
municated by Jo. Georg. Sceigcrcahl Arch. 
HanoV. Trof, Hehn, Soc, Honorar, Co!L Med. 
Lond. ^S. S. to Sir Hans Sloane Saru 
iPr. 5 ^. S. ^ ColL Med. Lond. Tranflated from 
the Latin by ' T. Stack, M. D. 
T H E Cereus Peruvianus happened lately to 
flower at Nor'mherg, in the Garden of Mr. John 
Magnus Volkammer^ who is well known to the 
World by his Hefperides Norimhergenjes. Upon 
this Occafion Dr. Chrijopher James made ufe 
of all poflible Care and Indullry to acquire a thorough 
Knowledge of this Planr. Wherefore we will compen- 
dioufly communicate his Obfervations at prefent, wait- 
ing his own giving an ample Account thereof, with 
Copper Plates, fuch as he has fome Years fince given 
of the jimerican Aloe with the utmoft Accuracy and 
Diligence. 
' This Cereus^ feparated from another, of which'it was 
a Branch feven Years ago, and expofed in open Air all 
Summer, grew without pufliing forth Branches. It is 
fix Foot three Inches high, and thirteen Inches thick. 
It has feven Angles at its Bafis, eight about the Mid- 
dle, and nine near the Top. Its upper Part is of a 
Sea-Green, on Account of the Powder with which it 
is covered ; its lower of a Grafs-green. The Down 
of its Prickles is between Pale and White about the 
Top, every where elfe it is Brown. On the fifth of 
September^ 
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