Fig. 70. GROUP OF ALOES. 



SUCCULENT PLANTS. 



CHAPTEE XXV. 



THIS heading is intended to include those water-storing 

 plants of various orders which the French gardeners 

 include under the title of " plantes grasses." Many 

 of these might be described as " thick-leaved," but 

 this term would not apply to the Cactus and some 

 others, which are leafless, the reservoir of water being 



