Cloves are dried flower buds. Illustrated are (1) a spray of leaves and flowers, (2) an expanded flower,…
The common names of coccoloba uvifera are sea grape, shore grape, and uvadel mar. The leaves are large,…
Cochlearia danica grows six to eight inches tall. The leaves are rounded and kidney shaped. The small…
Codiaeum variegatum Baronne de Rothschild has red colored leaves when older.
Codieum disraeli is an example of the lobatum form. The leaves are more or less three lobed.
Codiaeum interruptum is an example of the form appendiculatum. The leaves are constricted to the midrib.
Codiaeum spirale is an example of forms crispum and cornutum. The leaves have a crisped margin.
The verschaffeltii variety of coleus blumei is more robust and branchy than the type. The leaves are…
Comandra umbellata grows six to eighteen inches tall. The flowers are whitish. The leaves are thin,…
Cordyline terminalis baptistii has broad, recurved, deep green leaves. The leaves have some pink and…
Coreopsis lanceolata grows one to two feet tall. The leaves are few and large. It is native to the eastern…
Cotyledon secunda is stemless and the leaves grow in a rosette. The flowers grow in a one sided, recurved…
Crassula quadrifida is a perennial with oblong leaves and white flowers tinged with red.
The common names of crataegus are hawthorn and crategus. The thorns pictured are modified branches.…
Crataegus arnoldiana is a tree variety of hawthorn. It grows twenty feet tall with stout, ascending…
Crinum powellii has about eight flowers. The flowers are a dark rose color. There are about twenty spreading…
The common name of crocus sativus is saffron crocus. The leaves are as tall as the flower. It is the…
Cryptanthus zonatus has oblong, tapering leaves. The leaves are marked with bands of white. The flowers…
The common names of cucumis anguria are bur cucumber, west Indian gherkin, and gooseberry gourd. The…
Pumpkin is the common name of cucurbita pepo. The leaves are dull, dark green and three to five lobed.…
Calabazilla is the common name of curcurbita foetidissima. The leaves are large, heart shaped, and triangular.…
Cuphea hyssopifolia has a shrubby stem and numerous branches. The flowers are scarcely longer than the…
The common name of curcuma petiolata is queen lily. The leaves are six to eight inches long. The flowers…
Illustrated is the leaf of sago palm, or cycas revoluta. The leaves are long and recurved. The leaves…
The flowers of cypripedium pubescens bloom in May and June. The leaves are oval. The petals are usually…
Cystopteris fragilis has clustered, gray green leaves. This species of fern is widely distributed over…
The leaves of dalibarda repens are heart shaped and wavy toothed. The flowers are white with one or…
Davallia bullata has a creeping rootstock clothed with light, hair like scales. The leaves are scattered…
Illustrated is the tip of a leaf of dennstaedtia punctilobula. The leaves are one to two and a half…
Deutzia lemoinei grows three feet tall. The flowers are pure white. The leaves have finely serrated…
Illustrated is the leaf of squirrel corn, the common name of dicentra canadensis. The leaves are finely…
Didymochlaena lunulata is native from Cuba to Brazil. The leaves are clustered from an erect, rigid…
Illustrated is the foliage and a small tuber of dioscorea alata. The leaves are oblong and heart shaped.…
Diospyros lotus is a variety of persimmon. The leaves are oblong and grow three to five inches long.…
Illustrated is the early blight of a potato plant. It is a type of lesion causing more or less sudden…
Illustrated is a blight of grapes due to some constitutional disorder. The leaves die first at the edges.
The dolichos leaves are broadly egg shaped. They are rounded below and pointed at the top. The leaves…
Dracaena fragrans lindenii has recurved leaves. The leaves are transversed with creamy white bands.
Dracunculus vulgaris has a sheath of livid, spotted leaves. The flower is purple.
Dryopteris marginalis is native from Canada southward. It is a very common fern. The leaves are six…
The leaves of dyckia rariflora have small spines on the margin. The plant is native to Brazil.
Elaphoglossum villosum is native to Mexico and the west Indies. The sterile blades are six to nine inches…
The common name of elaphoglossum crinitum is elephant ear fern. The blades are ten to eighteen inches…
Encephalartos cycadifolius has a nearly round trunk. The leaves are opposite and alternate.
Erica persoluta is a white flowered and very variable species. The leaves are erect and spreading.
The flowers of erica melanthera are rosy. The flowers bloom in December and January. The leaves are…
Eucalyptus ficifolia is known as crimson flowered eucalyptus. The flowers are large, red, and grow in…
The common name of eucalyptus globulus is blue gum. Illustrated is a spray of mature foliage and two…
The common name of eucalyptus globulus is blue gum. Illustrated are shoots on a young plant. The leaves…
The common name of eucalyptus diversicolor is karri. The leaves are dark green with diverging veins.…
Illustrated are leaves of glasshouse eupatoriums. The varieties included are (a) E. riparium, (b) E.…
Mexican fire plant is the common name of euphorbia heterophylla. It is native in a range from the eastern…
Euptelea polyandra is native to Japan. The leaves are usually a roundish, egglike shape. The margins…
The leaves of evonymus radicans are generally rounded and narrow at the base. They are usually dull…
Larix occidentalis is a tall tree, growing 150 feet. The bark is dark and becomes cinnamon red on older…
European larch is the common name of larix decidua. The branchlets are slender and yellowish. The leaves…
Sweet bay is the common name of laurus nobilis. The leaves are stiff, dull green, and alternate. The…
Licula peltata is a showy, dwarf fan palm native to India. The leaves are round and three to five feet…