Identifier: populargreenhous00catl (find matches)
Title: Popular greenhouse botany; containing a familiar and technical description of a selection of the exotic plants introduced into the greenhouse
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Catlow, Agnes, 1807?-1889
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: London, L. Reeve
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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med into the genusTacsonia, and are very elegant greenhouse climbers. CRASS TIL A C~E2E. Exogens, with flowers having either many petals or only one,and a calyx of from three to twenty parts, more or less united.Stamens inserted with the petals, either equal in number andalternate with them, or twice as many, those opposite the petalsbeing the shortest, and arriving at perfection after the others.Leaves entire or pinnated.—Succulent herbs, or shrubs ; nativesof many parts of the world, in the driest situations; propertiesmedicinal. CRASSULA, Gen. Char. (Pentandria Pentagynia.) Flowers inferior; calyxfive-leaved; petals five; scales five, bearing honey at the base ofthe ovary; capsules five. The name is derived from the Latin crassus, thick, fromthe character of the leaves and stems. The greenhousespecies are numerous, and, being Cape plants, require a dryair. The leaves are thick, broad, smooth, and often imbri-cated ; the flowers are principally white, a few rose-coloured, Plate W.
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CEASSULACE^. 77 as the species portulacea, telephioides, cor data, and spatku-lata; arborescens has purple flowers. C. concinna, liguli-folia, conspicua, and corymbosula now belong to the genusPurgosea, of which division there are other species also.Kalosanthes, now a favourite genus, contains C. coccinea,the scarlet-flowered, which has also a white variety, versi-color, capitata, odoratissima, and jasminea, besides media,bicolor, flava, cymosa, and biconvexa ; these are all from theCape, and are useful additions to the greenhouse, for theyrequire but little care, and are easily raised from cuttings, iflaid for a few days to dry before planting. They grow bestin sandy loam and brick-rubbish. The genera Globulea and Cyrtogyne have also many ofthe characteristics of Crassula, and afford some species forthe greenhouse, all bearing white flowers. The species Kalosanthes coccinea and its varieties make avery pretty bed in the garden in the summer, for they willat that period bear the open

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