PEDICULARIS 



tufted. Ja-IJi ft. high: 

 Ivs. mostly alternate, pinnatelj- 

 parted, all but the uppermost peti- 

 oled: a.s. yellow or reddish, rarely 

 white. April^une. Dry woods and 

 thickets, Nova Scotia to Manitoba; 

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

 B.M. 2506. 



PEDlLANTHUS(s7ioe-ffoicer).£'H- 

 2>horbiAce(e. 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 15 

 species in tropical America. They 

 are easily grown with the fleshy Eu- 

 phorbias in sandy loam, well drained 

 al^d manured. Propagated by cut- 

 tingdried at the base, then inserted in 

 occasionally moistened sand. 



titbymaloides, Poit. Bird Cactus. 

 Jew Bush. Stem 4-0 ft. high, green: 

 Ivs lanceolate 1-3 in long, dark 

 green involucres bright red pointed 

 declined ^—^i in lone; in terminal 



PELARGONIUM 



1257 



-f- 



PEEPULTEEE Fniis lehg 

 PEIRfiSKlA See Pne-.k,,, 



PELARGONIUM i t ,1 1, 



the fruit 1 I n, ni I 1 n I i li 

 stork s bill \ < I I < ( 



NIU5I c t _ 11 i 11 I 1 I \1 s 



The p. 1 ' ' 



may hn I 



gomuiii > iiier-,ot' 



cies and n i I il i, \ iiiable 

 confusing in a wild stdtt «ith plant 

 breeding in many plices and con 

 tinned through two centuries, and 

 with a Hree special literature, the 

 genus offers extepttonal advantages 

 and perplexities to the student Most 

 of the species are South African, 

 whence thev earl) cime into eulti 

 vation b\ the English and Dutch 

 P. citcuUiitiim the dominant parent 

 in the florist s Peliigoniuras was 

 known m England as early as 1690. 

 The two originals oC the race of zonal 

 or bedding Geraniums were intro- 

 duced into England in 1710 and 1714. 

 Early in that centurj', a half dozen 

 species were grown at Eltham, ii 

 den of James Sherard, and these were pictured in 

 1732 in Dillenius' account of that garden, "Hortus 

 Elthamensis," a sumptuously illustrated work in quarto. 

 Even at that time, JP. iii<ii<iiiiiiis had vnried markedlv 

 (see Fig. 1698). In his --iM.i, . ri:iiii;iniiii." 17:i:;, 

 Linn»us described the f- li Im Kn. \\ 



(about 25) under the gen n- i 1 7-7, I, 1 1' i n 



ier founded the genus I'. iji-.iiMinn. ;im.i i raiisi,.n-,.,| 

 many of the Linnipan spe.i. s. I. ll,-i lU.r > \v..ik "(ii-ra 

 niologia,"aquarto, appeared in Paris in 17K7 to 1788, witli 

 44 full-page plates. Early in the nineteenth century, many 

 species were in cultivation in Europe, and experiments 

 in hybridizing and breeding became common. There 



ie98. 



the famous gar- 



hmatu-./lore, cunaneo Pem. 



quinans (and a variety of it) as figured by Dillenius in 173J. 



One-half size of the original pl.ite 



seems to have been something like a Geranium craze. 

 The .•xii.-iiiiitiits si-em to have been confined chiefly to 

 the ili-\-.|i>)iiiM III (.t the show or fancy Pelargoniums, as 

 gni nli'iu-r -iilijr, ts. The Geranium interest seems to 

 bav. ,uliiiiii:it.'.i in Robert Sweet's noble work on "Gera- 

 niiur.i. |inl.li-li..l in five volumes in London, 1820 to 

 ls:;n, 1 ..ni;iiiiin:,' 7(10 well - executed colored plates of 

 -1 riiii.ii r,,ii- ]ilants. At that time many distinct garden 

 IinI.ihIs «,r.- ill riiltivation. and to these Sweet gave 

 Luiiu iiutaniial names. His fifth volume is devoted 

 chiefly to garden forms of the show Pelargonium type, 

 to which the name P. domesticum is given in the follow- 

 ing sketch. The development of the zonal or bedding 

 Geraniums had begun in Sweet's time, and he includes 



