The century supplement to the dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists . Cereus—contimied. Fig. 227. Portion of Stkm, with Flowfu, of yellow. Summer. Stem erect, tall, bluish when young; ridgesabout eight, prominent, waved, bearing; tufts of blackish wool, inwhich are set about a dozen black spines. Mexico, 1841.(B. iM. 3922.)C. caespitosus (tufted). Jl. deep rose-coloured ; petals thirty toforty, oblong, acute, obtuse, or mucronate; tube having eighty toone hundred cushions clothed with long, ashy wool, and
The century supplement to the dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists . Cereus—contimied. Fig. 227. Portion of Stkm, with Flowfu, of yellow. Summer. Stem erect, tall, bluish when young; ridgesabout eight, prominent, waved, bearing; tufts of blackish wool, inwhich are set about a dozen black spines. Mexico, 1841.(B. iM. 3922.)C. caespitosus (tufted). Jl. deep rose-coloured ; petals thirty toforty, oblong, acute, obtuse, or mucronate; tube having eighty toone hundred cushions clothed with long, ashy wool, and six tosixteen brown or blackish spines. Stems 4in. to 6in. high, 4in. in diameter, simple or clustered, cylindric-ovoid, palegreyish or whitish, with scanty brown wool ; ribs twelve toeighteen, ^in. to iin. broad at base; cushion^? close-set, with.
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