. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. SPERGULA Some of the species are dichotomously branched, but the following has clusters of branches originating at or near the base. arv6nsis, Linn. Spurry, which see. Annual, 6-18 in. high, branched at or near the base: Ivs. linear, clus- tered at the nodes in 2 oppos
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. SPERGULA Some of the species are dichotomously branched, but the following has clusters of branches originating at or near the base. arv6nsis, Linn. Spurry, which see. Annual, 6-18 in. high, branched at or near the base: Ivs. linear, clus- tered at the nodes in 2 opposite sets of 0-8 together, appearing as if verticillate : stipules small, connate. Eu. 2 2361, Venus' Looking-elass â Specularia Speculum (XK) SPHffiKALCEA( Greek words, !7/<i6e»Hrt»OH'; referring to the fruit). Jlali-Acew. Globe Mallow. About 25 spe- cies of tender herbs, subshrubs and shrubs, mostly native to the warmer parts of America: Its. usually angled or lobed: fls. solitary or clustered, axillary, in terminal racemes or spikes, violet, rose, flesh-color or various shades of red: bractlets 3, free or united at the base; calyx 5-cut: locules of the ovary numerous, 2-3- ovuled, arranged in a single whorl. Closely allied to Abutilon but with 3 bractlets instead of none. A. Iivs. 5-7-lohed. B. Fls. in spikes. acerildlia, Torr. & Gray. Perennial herb, 2-6 ft. high: Ivs. 3^ in. long, cordate, palmately 5-lobed (sometimes with 2 or more basal lobes), coarsely serrate: fls. rose- color, varying to white, 2 in. across, 15 or more in spi- cate clusters terminating the branches. Rocky Mts. 5404. BE. Fls. in mnbels. umbellMa, Don. Mexican shrub, 3 ft. or more high, with scarlet, pendulous fls., about V/i in. across, and usually 3 in an umbel: Ivs. cordate, 7-lobed, crenate. 3:222 and 19:1608 (as Malva umbellata).- Var. txicolor, Hort., was said by John Saul to have red- dish purple fls. striped with white and rose. AA. Lvs. 3-lobed. B. Fls. s
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