. 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. Gardening. CEEASTIUM Boissi^rli, Gren. Low: Ivs. silvery, ovate-lanceolate, acute, entire, sessile; peduncles 4-12 in. high : inflores- cence a dichotomous cymt CERATOZAMIA 277. ^^^ 3^^ -) --=^ 410 Cerastu tomentdsum, Linn. Low, creeping, branched: Ivs. ob- long, spatulate, grayish woolly, upper Ivs. lanceolate ; pedun
. 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. Gardening. CEEASTIUM Boissi^rli, Gren. Low: Ivs. silvery, ovate-lanceolate, acute, entire, sessile; peduncles 4-12 in. high : inflores- cence a dichotomous cymt CERATOZAMIA 277. ^^^ 3^^ -) --=^ 410 Cerastu tomentdsum, Linn. Low, creeping, branched: Ivs. ob- long, spatulate, grayish woolly, upper Ivs. lanceolate ; peduncles 6 in. high, erect, dichotomous: capsule cylin- drical. used for edgings. Jared G. Smith. C^RASITS. Consult Prunus. CEEATI6LA (Greek, a little horn, referring to the 4-branched, serrate stigma). Empetr&cem. A heath- like evergreen, much-branched shrub from the sand barrens of Ga. and S. C.; rarely cult. N., but not hardy. Only 1 species. ericoldes, Michx. Height 2-8 ft.: branches subverti- cillate, marked with scars of numerous fallen Ivs., the younger and upper ones only retaining foliage : Ivs. crowded, almost whorled, K-K in. long, linear, rigid, shining, pale, rounded above, grooved beneath: fls. in- conspicuous, dioecious, of peculiar structure : berries round, orange-yellow. 2758. CERAT6L0BUS (Greek for homed pod). Palmdcem. Spiny Javanese palms, with pinnate Ivs., sometimes seen in fine collections, but not in the Amer. trade. The species are C. cdncolor, Blume ; C. glanciscens. Blume; C. Miclwlitzidnu, 'Bort. III. 23:251; C. FindletjAnus, Hort., 15:169. Treated the same as Calamus. A small genus of warmhouse palms, natives of Java and Sumatra. The members of this genus are slender- growing, spiny palms, with pinnate leaves, one of the best being 0. Micholitziana, which has rather short pinnte irregularly grouped along the raehis. A shaded house, with a night temperature of 65° to 70°, a moist atmosphere, and plenty of water at the root,
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