. 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. 28 ^CHMEA ^CHMEA petals ; ovary inferior, S-celled. The flowers are sub- tended by (in the axils of) flower-bracts; the entire head or flower-cluster is often reinforced or subtended by conspicuous leaf-bracts; in the compound-inflorescence types, the individual branches are usually subtended by branch-bracts.
. 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. 28 ^CHMEA ^CHMEA petals ; ovary inferior, S-celled. The flowers are sub- tended by (in the axils of) flower-bracts; the entire head or flower-cluster is often reinforced or subtended by conspicuous leaf-bracts; in the compound-inflorescence types, the individual branches are usually subtended by branch-bracts. In some species, as j1. iaZzwdei and A. Mari(sSegin(s, the large colored leaf-bracts are the most conspicuous part of the plant. In others, as A. Veitcliii, the entire head is the showy part. Monograph. 39. Adonis autumnalis. by Baker, Journ. Bot. 1879:129,161, 226. Includes Ca- nistrum, Echinostacliys, Sohenbergia, Hoplophytum, La-mprocoecus, Pironneava, Pothnava; and some of the species have been referred to Blllhergia, Cryptan- thus, Giismannia, Tillandsia, Chevaliera, etc. For cul- ture, see BiUbergia. A. Fls. 2-ranked on the branchlets. distichdntha, Lemaire. Lvs. 2-3 ft. long, with a di- lated base 4-5 in. long and half as wide, the blade rigid and channelled, edges prickly: scape 1-1}^ ft.: fls. in a bipinnate panicle 4-7 in. long and half as wide, the petals tongue-shaped and red-purple, longer than the obtuse-cuspidate sepals: pocket-like, Kin. long. Braz. 5447. AA. Fls. multifarious,—in several or many rows on the spike or branchlets. B. Inflorescence simple^ C. Ovary compressed or flattened. Lalindei, Lind. & Rod. Large (3-4 ft.), with long and broad spine-edged lvs.: spike very dense, greenish white, from the color of the aggregated calicos, the fls. subtended by many deflexed, showy red, long-pointed, entire bract-lvs.: corolla not exserted. New Granada. 30: Mariee-BeginsB, Wendl. Smaller than the last in all its parts : pet
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