. 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. • iECHMEA AE RIDES 29 panicle 1-2 ft. long, with (ew-flowered branches : scape tall, reddish, downy: fls. purple. Trop. Amer. — ^. ScMededna, Selilecht. (.., Brongn.). Lvs. large, rigid, strongly armed ; panicle 3-pinnate, pubescent ; fls. pale yellow. Mex. Gt. 1894:175.—^.zefirina is
. 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. • iECHMEA AE RIDES 29 panicle 1-2 ft. long, with (ew-flowered branches : scape tall, reddish, downy: fls. purple. Trop. Amer. — ^. ScMededna, Selilecht. (.., Brongn.). Lvs. large, rigid, strongly armed ; panicle 3-pinnate, pubescent ; fls. pale yellow. Mex. Gt. 1894:175.—^.zefirina is L H B a;GLE (from jEgle, one of the Hesperides). Butclcea!, tribe Auranliea. Small, strongly spinose trees, with al- ternate, trifoliolate leaves. Distinguished from the nearly- related genus Citrus (particularly G. trifoliuta) by the hard, gourd-like rind of its fruit and its viscous, woolly seeds. MArmelos, Correa. Elephant Apple. Maredoo. Ben- gal Quince. Bhel Pbuit. Small tree: fr. large, 2-4 in. in diam., round or pear-shaped. Trop. Asia. —Cult. in S. Pla. and Calif., and in hothouses. The wood is valued for its strength, and the sweet, aromatic pulp is used medicinally in India for diarrhoea and dysentery, and also as a lemonade and conserve. „ . _. H. J. Webbek. JEGOFdSIUM (aix, goat, and podion, a little foot; probably from the shape of the leaflets). Dmbelliferce. Goutweed. Coarse, hardy herbaceous perennial, with creeping rootstocks, biternate lvs., sharply toothed, ovate leaflets, and white fls. in umbels. Podograria, Linn., var. yaTiegd,tnm, is a variegated form of this European weed, which makes attractive mats of white-margined foliage. Common in yards, AERANTHTJS. Consult Angrmciim. AEBlDES(Greek,atj-p;ani).0«7udAce«,tribe Vdndece. Epiphytes: stems erect, roundish: lvs. distichous, strap- shaped and spreading, coriaceous, deeply channeled at the base, obtuse: peduncles from the axils of the lvs.; fls. in loose or dense racemes; petals narrower
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