. 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. 209. Beeonia semperflorens. A recently struck cutting. To show the precocity of bloom. No. 20. scarlet, males with 4 petals, females with 5 petals. New Granada. 4281. Var. miniita, Linden (.B. ciima- harXna, Hort.), differs ouly in having flesh-colored fis. 1855:221. 8: 787. EE. Fls. white or whi
. 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. 209. Beeonia semperflorens. A recently struck cutting. To show the precocity of bloom. No. 20. scarlet, males with 4 petals, females with 5 petals. New Granada. 4281. Var. miniita, Linden (.B. ciima- harXna, Hort.), differs ouly in having flesh-colored fis. 1855:221. 8: 787. EE. Fls. white or whitish, small. 14. Solidsa, HBK. Shrubby, sts. herbaceous, slender, branching: Ivs. frond-like, very small, 3-lobed, glossy green : fls. white, tinged with rose. Blooms early summer. New Granada. — An elegant basket and ornamental plant. 15. 41bo-picta, Hort. Shrubby, compact growth, freely branched : Ivs. elliptical, lanceolate, covered with numerous small silvery white spots: fls. green- ish white, males with 2 broad and 2 narrow petals, females of 5 subequal petals. Braz.—An elegant foliage plant. Int. by Bull in 1885. DD. WidtJi of Ivs. more than 1 in. E. Stem rhlzomatousJ creeping, or climbing. 16. scAudens, Swartz(B. lucida,Otto & Dietr. B. elllptica, Kuuth). Sts. climbing or trailing, clinging by means of short aerial roots: Ivs. ovate, acuminate, lobed, glossy green, 4 in. long: fls. small, white, hang- ing in ball-like clusters. W. Ind. R. H. 1879, p. 300. —An excellent basket or climbing plant. 17. manicata, Brongn. A short-stemmed, succulent plant: Ivs. ovate, obliquely cordate, thick, fleshy, smooth, shiuy green, 6-8 in. long : petioles covered with fleshy, scale-like hairs: peduncles a foot or more long, bearing loose panicles of pink dipetalous fls. Mex. Var. ailreo- maoulilta, Hort., has large blotches of yellowish white on the Ivs. 8:1159. :435. 18. glaucophylla, Hook. {B. glaucophfilla spUndens, Hort. B. glaucopliylla scdndens, Hort. B. Comte
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