. 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. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. CYNOGLOSSUM CYN0GL6SSUM (Greek, hound's tovgu»\ from the shaj)!' :iiu\ soft surface of the Ivs. of thr ruiinu'infst specit'sl. Jii'rniijhidctce. A lar^e and widely dis]>(iscd group id' littU- horticultural interes
. 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. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. CYNOGLOSSUM CYN0GL6SSUM (Greek, hound's tovgu»\ from the shaj)!' :iiu\ soft surface of the Ivs. of thr ruiinu'infst specit'sl. Jii'rniijhidctce. A lar^e and widely dis]>(iscd group id' littU- horticultural interest, being mostly tall, coarse, weedy herbs. C. offlci- }idle, Linn., Fig. 639, has a bur that becomes attached to cloth- ing ind t(i thr (U-t'Cf of sheep. It is L l)irnm; Wrrd, luitural- 1/pd ti ni tlir <H<1 World, j:io\\b about 2 ft. high in pas- tures and waste places of the \tlantic states, and has soft- pubescent, lanceolate Ivs., and lull red-purple (sometimes white) fls. in panicled racemes. < gtande, Dougl. Once cult, tiom California as a hardy 639. border perennial ; grows about Bur of Hound*s-tongue 2 ft. high, with lower Ivs. ovate- or Stick-tieht. oblong, or somewhat heart- (y' 2) ' shaped at the base, acute or acuminate, 4-8 in. long, on mar- ^ned petioles of about the same length : upper Ivs. smaller, ovate to lanceolate, abruptly contracted into shorter winged petioles: fls. violet or blue. For 0. Ap- pennlnum, Linn., see Solenanthus. CYN6RCHIS (Greek for dog orchid). Orchiddcâ¬(^, tribe Ophrydece. A dozen Habenaria-like African or- chids, not in the Am. trade. Culture of Bletia. Not to be confused with Cycnoches. CYNOStTRUS (Greek, cZoff's tail). Graminece. An- nual or perennial, cespitose grasses, with flat leaves. Spikelets of two forms in small fascicles, these forming a dense somewhat unilateral, spike-like panicle; termi- nal spikelets of the fascicles 2-4 fld., hermaphrodite; lower spikelets sterile, consisting of many empty glumes: flowering
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