PEDICULARIS 



commonly tufted, K-IJ^ ft. high: 

 Ivs. mostly alternate, pinnately 

 parted, all but the uppermost peti- 

 oled: fls. yellow or reddish, rarely 

 white. April-June. Dry woods and 

 thickets. Nova Scotia to Manitoba; 

 south, Fla. to N. Mex. B. B. 3:1SU. 

 B.iM. 2506. W. M. 



TEmLkJSTSVSi sJwe-f lower). Ml- 

 phiirbidceie. Mostly small succulent 

 shrubs, having the characters of Eu- 

 phorbia, except that the involucre 

 is irregular and enlarged into a short 

 spur on the upper side. About 1.5 

 species in tropical America. They 

 are easily grown with the fleshy Eu- 

 phorbias in sandy loam, well drained 

 and manured. Propagated by cut- 

 ting dried at the base, then inserted in 

 occasionally moistened sand. 



tithymaloides, Poit. Bird Cactus. 

 .Iew Bush. Stem 4-G ft. high, green : 

 Ivs. lanceolate, 1-3 in. long, dark 

 green involucres bright red , pointed 

 declined, }4-ii in long 

 ojmcs '.tmun nii ' 



I , i I 1 



li i\ es from Calif , n 

 uUj cultivated 



J B S Norton 



PEEN-TO, or Flat Peach 



ot the South IS /'Miims I' is 

 Sk Ptuih and Piuiius 



PEEPUL TREE. Ficus r 



PEIKESKIA. Se 



PELARGONHTM 



till- fl-uit is l.in ■ III 

 stork's bill). ■■ 



NIUM ot l,';ilili 



The person u li 



may find liis li. r ;. i . m i'.lar- 

 gonium. Wiih in ' i i i <it siu-- 

 cies and many ••[ ih. m \ umIiI.- and 

 confusing in a Willi Mai.. «itli |ilaril- 

 breeding in many pku-. s aii.l .-..ii- 

 tinucd through two cintiirii-, and 

 with a large special lituratuir. tin- 

 genus offers exceptional advantages 

 and perplexities to the student. Most 

 ot thi> species are South African, 

 whence tliev early came into culti- 

 vation by the English and Dutch. 

 /'. riiciillittiim, the dominant parent 

 in tlu' florist's Pelargoi 

 knuun in England as early as 1690. 



PELARGONIUM 1257 



1698. PelarEonium inqu i 



" /fuuf^u flore cccuruo Pern 



i and a var ety of it) as I eured by D lien us n 1733 



dun ui: .laim.. .smraid, uuil tUe.si: were pictured in 

 1732 in Dilleiiius' account of that garden, "Hortus 

 Eltharaensis," a sumptuously illustrated work in quarto. 

 Even at that time, P. inquinnns had varied markedly 

 (see Fig. 1098). In his "Species Plantarum," 175.3, 

 Linnipus desoribi-d the few species which he knew 

 (about 2.")) uiidir tlie genus Geranium. In 1787, L'Herit- 

 ier foundi-d the L'euus Pelargonium, and transferred 

 nianv of the I.innaan species. L'Heritier's work "Gera- 

 iii..l..i;ia,"n.|iiai i,;i:i|.. ;... il in Paris in 1787 to 1788, with 

 44 fnll-pagi' |il 111 1 i In- nineteenth century, many 



species wen- ih , ■ n Europe, and experiments 



in hybridiainu ..mi ;. . nn- became common. There 



gera actons 



