(EciTUS tlcu^l'llitornus. Natural Order: Cactacecc — Cactus Family. 
HIP or Snake Cactus, as it is familiarly called, is from the 
5 arid plains of South America. The stem is about half an 
iPinch in diameter, having ten angles, and attaining the 
p/C length of five or six feet. It is much too frail to stand 
C alone, and should be supported on a trellis or tied to an 
upright stick. The flowers are extremely handsome, coming 
^ out from the clusters of spines that adorn the stem. The tube is long 
’ and slender, and the petals a brilliant pink, remaining in perfection a 
number of days, when they are succeeded continuously by others for 
'several weeks. 
Y on Grrrifu (Hr. 
T FEEL my sinews slacken’d with the fright, 
* And a cold sweat thrills down all o’er my limbs, 
As if I were dissolving into water. —Dryden. 
TT7TIEN the sun sets, shadows that show’d at noon 
’ * But small appear most long and terrible; 
IIIS hand did quake 
A And tremble like a leaf of aspen green, 
So when we think fate hovers o’er our heads, And troubled blood through his pale face was seen 
Our apprehensions shoot beyond all bounds. —Lee. As it a running messenger had been. —Spenser. 
A TEXT him was fear, all arm’d from top to toe, 
Yet thought himself not safe enough thereby, 
But fear’d each shadow moving to or fro, 
And his own arms when glittering he did spy, 
Or clashing heard, he fast away did fly; 
As ashes pale of hue, and winged heel’d, 
And evermore on danger fix’d his eye, 
’Gainst whom he always bent a brazen shield, 
Which his right hand unarmed fearfully did wield. 
— Spenser. 
IMAGINATION frames events unknown 
In wild fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, 
And what it fears creates! —Hannah More. 
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AM fearful; wherefore frowns he thus? 
Tis an aspect of terror. All ’s not well. 
— Shakespeare. 
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