. 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. LOASA LOBELIA 935 bands, with 5 yellow spots outside. New Grenada. 6410. LH. 25:302. 18M, p. 233. BB. Petals hrioh-red, laterltia, Gill. Without stinging hairs; stem scarcely any: Ivs. opposite, loiig-petioled,pinnatisect; segments rotundate, crenately lolied: peduncles twin, l-llil., ter- minal, aho
. 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. LOASA LOBELIA 935 bands, with 5 yellow spots outside. New Grenada. 6410. LH. 25:302. 18M, p. 233. BB. Petals hrioh-red, laterltia, Gill. Without stinging hairs; stem scarcely any: Ivs. opposite, loiig-petioled,pinnatisect; segments rotundate, crenately lolied: peduncles twin, l-llil., ter- minal, ahout as long as the leaf: calyx lobes oval, longer than the corolla tube, lialf shorter tlian the corolla. Cliile. Tlie above description is from tho original one. A much confused plant (see addenda of Ind. Kew under Loasa and Blunienbachia; also equivocal pas- sages in Engler & Prantl Pll. Fam. 3:Ca:118, 110, Lief- erung 100). The stinging vine 10-20 ft. Iiigh pictured in B^BL 3032 as L. lateriiia, is a Blumenbachia, of tho section Raphisanthe. L. aiirantlaca, Hort., is usually given as a synonj'ni of L. laferilui in botanies, but is kept separate in the trade. LOBfiLIA (Matthias von Lobel, or L'Obel, 1538-1010, a Flemish botanist and author. Latinized LoboUus). /jobeliAcece (by some combined with the Campcin uliicece). More than 200 herbs (or sometimes subshrubs in the tropics) of wide distribution in temperate and tropical regions, comprising many species with very showy tlowers. Corolla gamopetalous and tubular, split down one side; lobes 5, the 3 on the lower side (as tlio fl. stands) somewhat united and forming a lip, the other 2 (1 on either side of the cleft or split) erect or turned liacli ; calyx short-tubular or globular, joined to the ovary, .short-toothed ; stamens 5, united into a tube around the single stylo, the tube often protruding from the cleft into the corolla: fr. a 2-valved cajisnle. The tlowers are blue, red or yellowish, on 1-fld. pedicels,which are a
Size: 1554px × 1608px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthor, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectgardening
