. 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. 564 EUPHORBIA spines short. Trop. E. Tinicalli for somo plants sold under this name. 23. officinimm, Linn. Fruticose: branches 2H-3 in. thick, 9-13-angled,deeply sulcate; edgesrepand; spines red, divergent or deflexed, 1-1J^ lines long: Ivs. minute. N. Afr. 1875 Beaumeriana, Hook. &
. 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. 564 EUPHORBIA spines short. Trop. E. Tinicalli for somo plants sold under this name. 23. officinimm, Linn. Fruticose: branches 2H-3 in. thick, 9-13-angled,deeply sulcate; edgesrepand; spines red, divergent or deflexed, 1-1J^ lines long: Ivs. minute. N. Afr. 1875 Beaumeriana, Hook. & Coss., and £. echinus, Hook. & Coss., are closely re- lated species from the same region. CCC. Branches with spines, if any, not stipular, hut in the place of Ivs. or branches D. Spines not present. 24. Ciput-MedilssB, Linn. Medusa's Head. Stem short, obconical, iieshy: branches numornus trnm tli-' apex, soon declined around the main stem wnli i1m ir ends erect, J-2 in. or more , G-12 in. I'm^. i ^ 4 with depressed, kiM-li-d tubercles, each be:irini, a small. linear-bill.', .lat. 1, ,f; -limls nf the involucre wliite, rather , â ';. .. lip palmatifid. S. Afr. II : . .11, rather rare. Var. mijor, Ait. (/,'.' . â . , I " . I, is a birge, erect, unbranched form, perliaj. .iri^^aann- I' branch cuttings. 25. meloJ6rmis, Ait. Fig. 799. Globose or pyriform, 3-5 in. in diam., deeply 8-10-costate, the ribs obscurely tuberculate on the almost acute angles, the sides trans- versely dark and light green striped or wrinkled when old: the few small Ivs. and fls. at the de- pressed apex : the old forked branches of the inflorescence subpersis- teiit but not spinose. A tew small branches simi- lar to the main stem usu- ally present. S. Afr. C. 5:43G. 11 very interesting and rare plant in Araer. Best grown only under glass. Often mistaken for a 799. Euphorbia mcloformis. DD. Spini-s formed of the sterile pednncles. 26. cereif
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