. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 'A LEUCOPHVLLUM 907 Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, and Pacific islands, but L. glauea is found in the tropics of both worlds. It grows wild in the West Indies anrl in western Texas. The trees and shrubs of this ;;rnu
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 'A LEUCOPHVLLUM 907 Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, and Pacific islands, but L. glauea is found in the tropics of both worlds. It grows wild in the West Indies anrl in western Texas. The trees and shrubs of this ;;rnus liuvi- the habit of Acacia, but belong to the .Miinosa trihc. wiiich is characterized by stamens 10 or less. tJeneric chiiracters are: calyx 5-den- tate : stamens 10, not glandular: pod broadly linear, stalked, flat-compressed, chartaceous, 2-valved : seeds compressed. Acacia trirhodes is L. trichodes, Benth., but it is not in the trade. gladca, Benth. {AcAcin. fronddsa, Willd. A. ijUthca, Moench). Spineless: branches and petioles powdery: pinnae 4-8-paired; Itts. 10-20-paired, oblong linear, glau- cous below: pod 0-6 in. long. LEnCHTENB£B6IA (after Prince Leuchtenberg). Cactdcecp. Agave Cactus. Stems in age forming a trunk 2 in. or more in diam., by the shedding of the lower tuber- cles : tubercles triangular-acuminate, spreading, 2-4 in. ~- "-fr/^-'y/.. 1269. l^euchtenbergia pnncipis (X %) (Adapted from Magazine.) long, %-% in. wide, with twisted papery spines: fls. fun- nelform, widely expanded, borne near the apex of young tubercles: fr. gray, ovate-elliptical, 1 in. long, covered with scales and crowned by the persistent flower: seeds dark brown, minutely tubercniate. Only 1 species, closely related to Echinocactus, but of remarkably differ- ent form. The plant is readily grown in the manner of Echinocactus and Mamillaria. principis, Hook. â . in. long. j jj Cowen. LEDCOJUM (name explained below). Also written Leitcoium, A in'ii-if/lnlt'ir,,/'. Snowfl
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