CAC'TUS ACKERMAN'NI-SPECIOSIS'SIMUS. 
HYBRID SHOWY CACTUS. 
Class. Order. 
ICOSANDRIA. MONOGYNIA, 
Natural Order. 
CACTACEjE. 
Of hybrid 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Raised 
Origin. 
3 feet. 
May. 
Perennial. 
in 1841. 
No. 1062. 
Cactus is a name of Theophrastus, whose Greek 
kaktos was, it is believed, our Cardoon ; their 
prickly character seems to be the only resemblance. 
The petioles, or leaf-stalks, of the Cardoon, were 
then, as now in some places, esteemed a delicate 
vegetable. 
The genus, Cactus, was formerly made to com- 
prehend a’ multitude of various plants, which are 
now divided into several genera. We retain the 
original name, chiefly from the difficulty which 
hybrid plants present to the determination as to 
which of the newly-constituted genera they belong. 
The very plant which we now figure is intermediate 
between Cereus and Epipliyllum ; and so mingled 
in nature have been many productions of this class, 
that distinction has been annihilated. Our speci- 
men was obligingly supplied from the splendid 
collection of Sir Philip Egerton, of Oulton Park, 
having been raised by that excellent cultivator, Mr. 
Errington, whose exhibitions in this class, at the 
London Horticultural Society’s Meetings, have 
gained for him several medals and certificates of 
merit. The species employed at Oulton, Mr 
