CRA SSUL A —EUPHORBIA . 



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CRASSULA OE KALOSANTHES. 



The species cultivated for the beauty of their flowers have already been treated upon, 

 see Vol. II., page 171, but there are a few others that are grown for the ornamental 

 character of their leaves. Most of them come from the Cape of Good Hope. They 



All should be grown near to the 



may be raised from seed and increased by cuttings, 

 glass. C. Bolusi has fleshy leaves, 

 pale green, with dark blotches, 

 height 3 to 5 inches ; flowers pale 

 flesh colour. C. Cooperi. — Neat 

 trailing habit, green leaves, and 

 small white flowers. C. lactea. — 

 Shrubby, twisted branches ; leaves 

 attenuated at the base, glabrous, 

 dotted within the margin ; flowers 

 snow white (Fig. 124). C. lyco- 

 podoides. — Shrubby branching, 

 stem smooth, imbricated leaves, 

 and purple flowers. C. spathu- 

 lata. — Stems decumbent and 

 branching, leaves roundish and 

 glabrous, and flowers rose-coloured. 



Echeveria. — See Flower Gar- 

 dens, Vol. L, page 223. 



EUPHORBIA. 



A limited number of species of 

 these spurgeworts are, because of 

 their fleshy, more, or less spiny, and often singularly contracted stems, frequently 

 associated with Cacti by admirers of curious-looking plants. A characteristic of 

 Euphorbias is the exudation of milk-like juice from the stems when cut, and which, in 

 some cases, contains medicinal, in others poisonous, properties. Several species are 

 remarkable for their conglomerated or club-like stems. Some of them attain to a 

 great height, while others are dwarf and have a peculiarly stunted appearance. A 



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Fig. 124. Crassula lactea. 



