. 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. April andMay; petals 5, deeply bifid : capsules twice as long asthe calyx. On magnesian rocks, N. Y. to Va. and west-ward. Bui. 74. Ind. Agr. Exp. Sta., from which Fig. 410is adapted. —Recommended as a bedding plant, for habit, covered with white I/vs. silvery or Capsule equaling the cal
. 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. April andMay; petals 5, deeply bifid : capsules twice as long asthe calyx. On magnesian rocks, N. Y. to Va. and west-ward. Bui. 74. Ind. Agr. Exp. Sta., from which Fig. 410is adapted. —Recommended as a bedding plant, for habit, covered with white I/vs. silvery or Capsule equaling the calyx. grandlildrum, Waldst. & Kit. Creeping perennial :lvs. linear, acute, the margins reflexed ; inflorescencedichotomous : 6-8 in. high : petals oval, 2-parted, transparent white, twice as long as calyx. BB. Capsule much longer than the calyx. Biebersteinii, DC. Stems 6 in., creeping, diffuse,branched : lvs. ovate-lanceolate, tomentose-wooUy ; pe-duncles erect, dichotomous ; capsule 2782. —Like C. tomentosum, but withlarger lvs. Fine for edgings. CERASTIUM , Gren. Low: Ivs. silvery, ovate-lanceolate,acute, entire, sessile; peduncles 4-12 in. high ; inflores-cence a dichotomous cyn\e : fls. large, white. tomentbsiun, Linn. Low, creeping, branched: Its. ob-long, spatulate, grayish woolly, upper Ivs. lanceolate ;peduncles 6 in. high, erect, dichotomous: capsule cylin-drical. used for edgings. Jared G. Smith. CfiEASUS. Consult P™h»s. CEKATIOLA (Greek, « lilfle horn, referring to the4-branched, serrate stigma). Umpetrdcew. A heath-like evergreen, much-branched shrub from the sandbarrens of Ga. and S. C.; rarely cult. N., but not 1 species. ericoldes, Michx. Height 2-8 ft.: branches subverti-cillate, marked with scars of numerous fallen Ivs., theyounger and upper ones only retaining foliage : , almost whorled, yi-% in. long, linear, rigid,shining, pale, rounded above, grooved beneath: fl
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