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Asparagus (This genus comprises nearly)

This genus comprises nearly 100 species, broadly dispersed over the temperate and warmer regions. To those described on pp. 122-3, Vol. I., the following should now be added: a. tenuissimus (very slender). A semi-scandent plant of a strikingly elegant character, adapted for the warm conservatory. It is of a lighter green than A. plumosus, and the foliage is remarkable for its extreme slenderness and delicate appearance. South Africa, 1882.