. 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. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 684 GRASSWORT GRASSWOET. See Cerastkim. GRATiOLA (Latin, grace or favor, from its reputed healing qualities). Scrophulariacece. This genus con- tains an unimportant trailing annual, which grows wild in wet, sandy places from Quebec to Fla., and bears yellow half
. 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. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 684 GRASSWORT GRASSWOET. See Cerastkim. GRATiOLA (Latin, grace or favor, from its reputed healing qualities). Scrophulariacece. This genus con- tains an unimportant trailing annual, which grows wild in wet, sandy places from Quebec to Fla., and bears yellow half an inch long, from June to September. G. aiirea, Muhl., was once offered by collectors. It is a glandular plant, with Ivs. lanceolate, entire or remotely denticulate, and 2 sterile filaments. 3:162. GBAVfiSIA (after C. L. Graves, who collected in Madagascar). MelastomAcea. Three species of dwarf warmhouse foliage plants, natives of Madagascar, and. 985. Asa Gray at 76 years. cult, in a few American conservatories. For culture and for distinctions from allied genera, see Bertolonia, un- der which name most of the varieties are still known. guttata, Triana (5ci(o;ii«m guttclta,'Roo\l.). Caules- cent, erect: branches obtusely 4-angled: petioles long, densely scurfy-powdery: Ivs membranous, 5-nerved, rotund at base, slightly scurfy above and spotted, under side and calyx scurf y-powdery, cymes terminal, several- fld. Int. 1865, and first described at as B. gut- tata, where the Ivs. are shown with fairly well defined, doiible longitudinal rows of roundish pink dots. F. S. 16:1696 is probably a copy of 5524. (See, also, Gt. 1865, p. 385. and 1865, p. 225.) Var. Bupfirba, Hort., :359 (1879) is shown, with more and larger red- dish purple spots, which are less regularly arranged. Var. Le&relle4na (V. Legrelleimi, Van Houtte). An alleged hybrid obtained by Van Houtte and figured in F. :2407. Coigneus refers this plate to Gravesia guttata, but no
Size: 1839px × 1359px
Photo credit: © Central Historic Books / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjec, booksubjectgardening
