. 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. EUPHORBIA CO. Branches fleshy, a spine on each side of every leaf or leaf-scar, in a few the leaf transformed into a third thorn between them. D. Podaria {the projections bearing leaves and spines} distinct: branches cylindrical or obsoletety angled. 8. BpUndens, Bojer
. 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. EUPHORBIA CO. Branches fleshy, a spine on each side of every leaf or leaf-scar, in a few the leaf transformed into a third thorn between them. D. Podaria {the projections bearing leaves and spines} distinct: branches cylindrical or obsoletety angled. 8. BpUndens, Bojer. Crown of Thorns. Fig. 798. Stems 3—4 ft. long, 3^-1 in. thick, covered with stout spines almost an inch long, somewhat twining: branches few : Ivs. few, on the young growth, obovate to oblong-spatulate, thin, bright green, 1-2 in. long; in- volucres in long-pedimcled dichotoraous cymes, near the bj lada gascar, flowering all the year, but mostly in winter. 2902. :17] plant. The red bracts, with green leaves on the sinuous spiny stems, are strik- ing. It can be trained into ornamental forms. 9. neriifdlia, Linn. Arborescent or shrubby: stem, obtusely 5-angled, 3-7 ft. or more high: the small mam- miform podaria in rows, with short, dark colored, di- vergent spines : branches numerous, bearing obovate- oblong, obtuse, thick Ivs., 3-5 in. long at the summit: small, sessile cymes of greenish invohicres in the up- per axils. June, July. E. Indies. —Large Ivs. persistent from autumn to spring. Cristate forms are in cult. 10. drupifera, Schum. & Thorn. {E. grandifdlia, Haw.). Arborescent: stem terete: branches obsoletely 4-5- angled ; spmes small : Ivs. terminal, obovate-cuneate, obtuse or retuse, .5-8 in. long: small cymes axillary, pe- duncled: capsule drupaceous. Guinea. 5UPH0RBIA 563. 796. Euphorbia fulgens U^ '- 11. mamilldsa, Lem. Low, cespitose: branches less than an inch m diara.: podaria elongated, conical, in 5 spiral rows: Ivs. and spmes s
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