Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . s-tinguished by smaller flowers, which are little exsertedfrom the calyx and not widely expanding, short fllamentsand small anthers, sharp-pointed sepals and conspicuoussharp-pointed flower-bracts. They are epiphytic herbs,of about ()0 species, natives of Trop. S. Amer. Flower-cluste
Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . s-tinguished by smaller flowers, which are little exsertedfrom the calyx and not widely expanding, short fllamentsand small anthers, sharp-pointed sepals and conspicuoussharp-pointed flower-bracts. They are epiphytic herbs,of about ()0 species, natives of Trop. S. Amer. Flower-cluster arising from a cluster or rosette of long, hardleaves, which are usually serrate ; petals 3, tongue-shaped, obtuse or pointed, 2-3 times the length of thespine-pointed calyx-lobes ; stamens 6, shorter than the 28 ^CHMEA ^CHMEA petals : ovary inferior, 3-eelied. The flowers are sub-tended by (in tlie axils of) flower-bracts; the entire heador flower-cluster is often reinforced or subtended byconspicuous leaf-bracts; in the compound-inflorescencetypes, the individual branches are usually subtended bybranch-bracts. In some species, as and , the large colored leaf-bracts are themost conspicuous part of the plant. In others, as A,Veitchii, the entire head is the showy part. Monograph. 39. Adonis autumnalis. by Baker, Journ. Bot. 1879:129, 101, 226. Includes Ca-nistrum, Evhinostachys, ffohenbergia, Hoplophytum,Lamprococcits, Jiroymeava, Pothuava; and some ofthe species have been referred to Billbergia, Cryptan-thus, Guzmannia, Tillandsia, Chevaliera, etc. For cul-ture, see Sillhergia. A. Fls. S-ranked on the branchUts. distich&ntha, Lemaire. Lvs. 2-3 ft. long, with a di-lated base 4-5 in. long and half as wide, the blade rigidand channelled, edges prickly: scape 1-lK ft.: fls. in abipinnate panicle 4-7 in. long and half as wide, thepetals tongue-shaped and red-purple, longer than theobtuse-cuspidate sepals: pocket-like, Kin. 5447.
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