The century supplement to the dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists . Fig. 228 twenty to thirty straight spines iin. ormore in lensth. New Jlexico and Texas,1880. (B. M. 6669.) See Fig. 228. C, CavendisMl (Cavendishs). A synonymof C. Faxionianus. C. Childsli (Childs). Ji. pink, 30in. in cir-cumference, composed of six rows of re-curved petals, the numerous stamensstanding well above them ; opening atnight. Probably a form of C. lariabilis. C. clrrhifems (tendril-bearing), fl. brightred, nearly 4in. acr
The century supplement to the dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists . Fig. 228 twenty to thirty straight spines iin. ormore in lensth. New Jlexico and Texas,1880. (B. M. 6669.) See Fig. 228. C, CavendisMl (Cavendishs). A synonymof C. Faxionianus. C. Childsli (Childs). Ji. pink, 30in. in cir-cumference, composed of six rows of re-curved petals, the numerous stamensstanding well above them ; opening atnight. Probably a form of C. lariabilis. C. clrrhifems (tendril-bearing), fl. brightred, nearly 4in. across, very regular, lastin^^f^tems prostrate, branching, very proliferous, with roots alon;^the main ones ; branchlets upright, five-angled, with slijjhtly-raised points or tubercles, upon which are ten short, hair-likespines, arranged in a star, and suiToundirg three or four erectcentral ones. Mexico, 1847. A small-giowing Fkj. 250. Portion of Stem, with Flower, of Cereus enneacamhus. about a week. C. Engelmannii (Engelmanns). Jl. purplish-carmine; sepalsfifteen to twenty, ovate-lanceolate, prickly; petals acute: stigmastwelve, green, erect. Jr. red, ovate. Stem ovate-cylindrical,eleven- to thirteen-ribbed. bearing the flowers laterally at theapex ; prickles radiatiiiji, whitish, about thirteen in a tuft. Cali-fornia, 1885. (R. G. 1174 [1175a in textl.) 2 F 218 The Dictionary of. Gardening, Cereus—continued.
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