The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . r. /V/fif, a breaking, rent, nipture, re. Tlie7 speeieBure natives of North .Aniericii,and are tlie only Mienibei-a of their larue fainlly which iiiussbeyond the tropics, except the 2 species of lln-dia in east-ern Asia. Three or four species extend to the Miihlle At-lantic States, ami one is fuiind in New Ivn<,.liind. Thi-y areherlis or erect ilndei-shrnlis, liranched iind nsually set withconspienous, dark, Kland-heiirin^ liristles. Their K-avrsare oltloi
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . r. /V/fif, a breaking, rent, nipture, re. Tlie7 speeieBure natives of North .Aniericii,and are tlie only Mienibei-a of their larue fainlly which iiiussbeyond the tropics, except the 2 species of lln-dia in east-ern Asia. Three or four species extend to the Miihlle At-lantic States, ami one is fuiind in New Ivn<,.liind. Thi-y areherlis or erect ilndei-shrnlis, liranched iind nsually set withconspienous, dark, Kland-heiirin^ liristles. Their K-avrsare oltloii^, short-petioled, three-nervi-il, entire or bristle-tuothed, the flowers soliliii-y or eyinose, eonunonly of apurjilish-red color with yellow stamens, and very Tlie Inflorcsccntc <rf Mcidow-licility i/tAtx^ Vtr^ntfa).a, the fruit; A, .1 stntiicii; c, .i They bear the names deer-itrai» and mtadmr-heautu, thelatter applying; especially to /f. Virijinica. the hest-knownand most northern species, sometimes Ill .<iiV., a genus of liemipteroiis insects. Ehexieae (), u. pi. [ (A. P. de Can-dolle, 1838), < Riiexia + -ct.] A tribe of plantsof the order Mclnxlomaica: it is characterized hya four-celled ovary with nnineroiis ovules fixed upon a pla-centa projectiiiit from the inner nnjfle of the cell, ii cii|isn-lar fruit, spirally coiled seeds, and anthers with their con-nective conimoiily lithind iritoa spur or tail. ItIncludes aliout :{7 species, lulonuillK to ;i keneni. of whichWuxia is the type and M<ni<cfi:rtiim the largest Kenus, eon-tiiniiiK -St species of unimportjuit plants of western tro|i-Ical .-VmericiL rhigolene (rigo-lon), «. [< Gr. Ajor, cold (piol).= L. cold,
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