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Scientific American, Vol. 75, No. 1 (July 1896) (1896)

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uet and J. Pois- We shall terminate this no- son, in La Nature. menclature of curious or use- ful plants with the cirio (Fig. Butter In Plaster of Paris. 4), which may be justly re- There seems to be no limit garded, like the Welwitschia to the ingenuity bestowed Fig. 2.-CARD0N (CEREUS PRINGLEI).… … Fig, 3.-DATYL CIMARRON (YUCCA BREVIFOLIA?). stalk. The latter, in time, now made to hold as much rises like a column without as 2 cwt. of butter, and forty ever dividing, unless it happens to get broken by acci- hands, mostly boys and girls, are occupied in making for the cirio, which, as its name…

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