. 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. Y\ >1\jA -. 2516. Spanish Moss—Tilland- sia usneoides. (Much, re- duced.) CC. Steyyi not prominently swollen, D. X/vs. linear or filiform from ilie hase or abruptly from a dilated hase. polystacliya, Linn. (T. angustifblia, S"wartz. splca, Baker), Lvs. rosulate, lepidote or scurfy, curved, equa
. 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. Y\ >1\jA -. 2516. Spanish Moss—Tilland- sia usneoides. (Much, re- duced.) CC. Steyyi not prominently swollen, D. X/vs. linear or filiform from ilie hase or abruptly from a dilated hase. polystacliya, Linn. (T. angustifblia, S"wartz. splca, Baker), Lvs. rosulate, lepidote or scurfy, curved, equaling or exceeding the stem: inflorescence compound, somewhat paniculate, the lateral spikes shorter than the central ones, the bracts distichous and pointed and little exceeding the calyx: fls. blue. S. Fla. to Brazil. tenuiiolia, Linn. (T. ccespiidsa, Leconte, not Cham. & Schlecht. T. Bdrtraini, Ell. in i^art). Plant less than 6 in. tall, reddish, clustered: lvs. awl-shaped and erect, nearly terete, concave at the base, scurfy: fls. few in a simple or somewhat compound spike, the blue petals exceeding the bracts and recurving at the apex. Fla. to Brazil. DD. Lvs. gradtially narroived from a broad hase. fascicul&,ta, Swartz (T. hraetedta, Chapm. T. glau- cophi'jlla, Baker. Vriesia glaucojiliylUij'^.). Tall, strong species with stem 2 ft. tall: lvs. 1-1^ ft. long, concave or channeled above, erect or ascending, scurfy and bluish; stem longer than the lvs. and branched, the branches or spikes bearing distichous keeled acute mostly greenish and red-tinged bracts: fls. narrow, ex- serted, blue. S. Fla., West Indies and Central Amer. 4415, 5 variable. utriculata, Linn. Plant 2-3 ft, high: Ivs. glaucous and scurfy, becoming subulate and recurved at the summit but much dilated and imbricated at the base and forming pockets that hold water: inflorescence branched,the fls. far apart on the branches: fls. pale blue (pale colored forms), narrow, the petal
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