. 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. 284 CBRBUS CEBOPBGIA with pink, nocturnal. W. Ind. and Mex.—The plant much resembles C grandiflorus, but is easily distin- guished by its smaller and different colored lis. 53. Martianus, Zucc. Of bushy growth, branching, reaching a height of 3 ft. and more ; branches slender, provided here and there with aeria
. 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. 284 CBRBUS CEBOPBGIA with pink, nocturnal. W. Ind. and Mex.—The plant much resembles C grandiflorus, but is easily distin- guished by its smaller and different colored lis. 53. Martianus, Zucc. Of bushy growth, branching, reaching a height of 3 ft. and more ; branches slender, provided here and there with aerial roots, cylindrical, about %m. in diam : ribs commonly 8, straight, sepa- rated by sharp grooves, very low : areolae -^4-% in. apart, small, white : radial spines 6-10, bristle-form, spreading, clear honey-yellow, at base brownish, later whitish and becoming gray, about ^^in. long ; centrals 3—i, similar, only somewhat stouter and darker : £is. 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 3-5. 54. nyctic&lus, Link. NiGHT-BLOOMiue Cekeus. Sub- erect, very long-jointed, %-! in. in diam.: joints vari- able, some cylindrical, others 4-6-angled : ribs acute at first, obtuse later : spines 1-4, and very small : fls. white and fragrant, about 7 in. long. Mex. —The com- monest Night-blooming Cereus. 55. in^rmls, Otto. Sts. branching, climbing, branches 4-5-angled, sharp-winged, yellowish green, later darker, slightly crenate: areolai in the depressions, small, bearing a few bristles when young, but soon naked. Venezuela. 56. ham^tus, Scheldw. (G, rostrdtus, 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 the small areolae: spines 5-6, bristle-form, whitish to broviTi, very short and partly deciduous : lis. large
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