. 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. 284 CEREUS CEROPEGIA with pink, nocturnal. W. lud. and Mex.âThe plant much resembles C. grandiflorus, but is easily distin- guished by its smaller and different colored fls. 53. Marti&nus, Zuco. Of bushy growth, b
. 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. 284 CEREUS CEROPEGIA with pink, nocturnal. W. lud. and Mex.âThe plant much resembles C. grandiflorus, but is easily distin- guished by its smaller and different colored fls. 53. Marti&nus, Zuco. Of bushy growth, branching, reaching a height of 3 ft. and more ; branches slender, provided here and there with aerial roots, cylindrical, about /4in. in diani ; ribs commonly 8, straight, sepa- rated by sharji grooves, very low : areolae 34-% in. apart, small, white : radial spines 6-10, bristle-form, spreading, clear honey-yellow, at base brownish, later whitish and becoming gray, about 34in. long ; centrals 3^, similar, only somewhat stouter and darker : fls. usually abundant, straight or slightly S-shaped, 4-5 in. long, scarlet-red : fr. spherical, reddish green, covered with bristles. Southern Mex. 3768. BB. Sibs of stem, S-5. 54. nycticalus, Link. Night-blooming Cereus. Sub- erect, very lo]i^', K-l in. in diam.: joints vari- able, some cyliMilrical. others 4-6-angled : ribs acute at ilrst, (>l)tiis(_- later : spines 1^, and very small : fls. white and fragrant, about Tin. long. Mex. âThe com- monest Night-blooming Cereus. 55. inSrmis, Otto. Sts. branching, climbing, branches 4-5-angled, sharp-winged, yellowish green, later darker, slightly crenate : areolae in the depressions, small, bearing a few bristles when young, but soon naked. Ven ela. 56. hamsttus, Scheidw. (C. rostr&tus, Lem.). Stems slender, weak, climbing, bright green, less than 1 in. in diam., reaching a length of 10 ft.: ribs remotely serrate, the serrations repand, and bearing on their anterior edge t
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