. 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. 1592 RUSSELIA RYE RUSSflLIA (Alexander Russell, English physician and author of "Natural History of Aleppo," 1856). ScrophuJariacece. About a dozen species of Mexican shrubby plants with angular, usually slender, often pendulous branches: Ivs. usually small, becoming scale- like on the branches, 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. 1592 RUSSELIA RYE RUSSflLIA (Alexander Russell, English physician and author of "Natural History of Aleppo," 1856). ScrophuJariacece. About a dozen species of Mexican shrubby plants with angular, usually slender, often pendulous branches: Ivs. usually small, becoming scale- like on the branches, opposite or verticillate: tls. bright red, in dense or loose corymbs or of a single flower; calyx o-parted; corolla - tube cylindrical, the lobes spreading and nearly equal; staminodia very short or wanting; stamens 4: capsule subglobose, 2-celled: seeds numerous, very small, winged. A recent synop- sis of Russelia by Dr. B. L. Robinson, with a key to the species, will be found in Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci., vol. 35, No. 16, March, 1900. Russelias are of easy cultivation. R, juncea and its varieties make excellent basket plants, being almost continuously in bloom. Propagated by cuttings. A. Peduncles l-S-flowered. jiincea, Zucc. (li. scopdria, Hort.). Coral Plant. Fig. 2220. Atender shrubby plant, with smooth, somewhat rush-like branches, nodding or pendulous at the top: Ivs. linear-lanceolate or ovate, small, becoming minute bracts on the branches: raceme very loose, remotely flowered: peduncleselongated. :1773. 4:79. — Vars. Lem6inei and elegantissima are garden hybrids of jB. juncea and H. sarmentosa. They are more florif- erous, especially during the winter, than the type. AA. Peduncles many-flotvered. sarmentdsa, Jacq. {M. multlflbra, Sims). A tender slirub, becoming 4-6 ft. high: Ivs. opposite, ovate, acu- minate, serrately crenate: fls. verticillate, many in a terminal raceme. 1528. 16:163. 1852:281. F. W. Barclay. ETTSSIAN CACTUS. Same as Rus
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