RHEITM 



bearing numerous greenish Hs. that give a feathery ef- 

 fect to the panicle: alcene red, winged. Thibet and W. 

 China, on high table-lands. B.M. Glli.i. R.H. 1874, p. 95. 

 Gn 3J, p. 243; 48, pp. 199, 208. -Probably the best plant 

 of the genus for general cultivation, making a most 

 striking foliage plant. It is from the short, thick, 

 branching stem or eaudex of this plant that most of the 

 true officinal Rhubarb is derived Although known to the 

 Chinese for centuries and the product long imported into 

 Europe the plant was not desciibed botamcall} until 

 1872 Fig 2099 is adipted fiom The (, irdeu 



B acumin,:li,m Hook f ,!. Thorn Prob ,1 h oiilj i smill 

 formofR Eiiio.li nith a(umiiiite Us but tlu lis iietoiisid 

 erablv laigei md thnugli lon^, uiult i ( ullu itiua it does not it 



RHIPSALIS 



1513 



hilt the ■ 



rl, 



Hooker HimiUyas B M +-'"-; 

 Stem simple and deuseh ilotlu 1 \\ 

 pointing bracts that come il til li 



t &, Thorn 

 downward 

 luncles 1\ s 



wmgLd blood red showj V i i B M 7d91 



"Ri\as ' or "Ribes ' IS Its Aril I i rni Koyle 



Dwirf Ivs thick orbicular ni I white in a 



dense spike rising about 2 ft \\ i n r l im i (\ i 



L H B 



HHETTMATISM: BOOT. Jeffersonia bimita. 



RH£XIA (rtreek, rupture; referring to its supposed 

 properties of healing). MelastomAce(e. Meadow 

 Beauty. A genus of about 10 species of N. American 

 perennial herbs, with opposite sessile or short-petioled, 

 3-5-nerved Ivs. and showy flowers borne in late summer. 

 Pis. terminal, solitary or in cymes; calyx-tube urn- to 

 bell-shaped, narrowed at the neck, 4-lobed; petals 4, 

 obovate; stamens 8, equal, the connective being thick- 

 ened at the base, with or without a spur at the back. 



Bhexia Virginica is found wild in company with 

 side saddle plants (6ar>acenia putpmea) and cranber 

 ries m the low meadows of Massachusetts It is what 

 we should cill a bog plant It is a pretty, low grow 

 m..' tuVpKuv rooted plant blooming in summer and 

 chi tU lilt 1 tnig as being one of few species of a 

 gill I 1 1 111, t5 a family almost wholly composed 

 ot i ml i s ] 1 nts from tropical countries such as 

 C iiti il nil 11 rrma and Medinella It increases bv 

 mems cf tuber-, and seeds and under suitable condi 



AA. Stem angled. 



B. Petals yellow. 

 Itltea, Walt. Stem becoming much branched, 1 ft. 

 high: Ivs. smooth, serrulate, the lower obovate and ob- 

 tuse, the upper lanceolate and acute : fls. small, in nu- 

 merous cymes. July, Aug. Pine- 

 barren swamps, N. C. to Fla. and 

 west. 



BB. Petals not yellow, 

 c. Lvs. 6-10 lines long. 

 cilidsa, Michx. Stem nearly 

 simple, 1-2 ft. high: lvs. ovate, 

 sessile or very short-petioled, ' 

 nerved: fls. violet-purple, 1-1' 

 in. across, short -pedicelled. iii 

 few-fld. cymes; anthers lu.i 

 curved and not spurred at the 

 back. June-Aug. Swamps, Ind. 

 to Fla., west to La. 



cc. Lvs. 1-2 in. long. 

 Virglnioa, Linn. Fig. 2100. 

 Roots tuber-bearing: stems about 

 1 ft. high, branched above and 

 usually clustered, forming a com- 

 pact, bushy plant : lvs. sessile, 

 ovate, acute, rounded or rarely 

 narrowed at the base. 1-2 in. by 

 )4-\ in., usually 5-nerved : fls. 

 rosy, 1-1^^ in. across, in cymes; 

 petals rounded or slightly refuse; 

 anthers minutely spurred on the 

 back. July-Sept. Sunny swamps. 

 Me. to Fla., west to Mo. B.B.2: 

 474. B.M. 9G8.-This is one of 

 the prettiest of the small wild 

 flowers. When transplanted, it 

 seems to thrive as well in good 

 clav loam as in peatv soils 

 although It sometimes 

 grows in the litter "^ 



F W Barclay and ^■ 



T D Hatfield 



EHINE BEBKY lil,am 



EHIPID0D£NDR0N See 



2100. Rhcxia Vireinica. 



EHlPSAtIS (Greek r7i ips, wickerwork). Cactcteece. 

 A mixed assemblage of lengthened epiphytic forms, 

 1 rru,ht tjgether b^ a common character of small fls., 

 \\iTlitli tui e short or wanting here including Hariota, 

 I I 1 1 II 11 1 m 1 Pfeiftera Fls white or greenish white, 

 \ 1 t -/ eifoinns ros> and if salicomioides, S. 



I I ij > md if iliombea, yellow. Fruit without 



spines ci wool except in .K ce)eiformis. For culture, 

 see Cactus 



INDEX 



rhombea, 13. 

 Saglionis, 2. 

 salicornioides, 1. 

 squamulosa 



tions soon makes large clumps Tubers potted in the 

 autumn ind kept in a coldfrpme force nicely in spring 

 time. 



A. Stem cylindrical. 

 Hari&na, Linn. A slender, erect, usually simple- 

 stemmed plant with reddish purple fls. about 1 in. 

 across, in loose cymes; lvs. short-petioled, oblong to 

 linear-oblong, l-lj'a in. long, 2-5 lines wide, 3-nerved; 

 anthers minutely spurred at the back. June-Sept. 

 Pine barrens, N. J. to Fla., west to Ky. B.B. 2:474.- 

 Grows in drier places than S. yirginica. 



funalis 4 

 grandifora 4 

 Houlletiana 1; 



iintbothele 7 

 raesembiimthe 



moides S 

 myobUl-us 12 

 pachypten 14 

 pindoxi 9 

 pentiptera 10 



s round or 



Swartziana, 13. 

 virgata, 6. 



nearly so in cross-sec- 

 tion : fls. white except 

 in the first species : 

 berry small, white, 

 round. 

 1. The branches of two 



sahcomoides 



Saglionis 



mesembrianthemoides 



