. 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. 1239. Lantana Camara (X%) Var. mista {L. mlsta, Linn. Not spelled mixta by LinnEeus, although it is so spelled by later authors). Outer fls. opening yellowish and becoming saffron and brick-red; inner fls. yellow, changing to orange. Var. crdcea {Zi. crdcea, Jacq.). Fls. opening sulfur- yellow and changing to s
. 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. 1239. Lantana Camara (X%) Var. mista {L. mlsta, Linn. Not spelled mixta by LinnEeus, although it is so spelled by later authors). Outer fls. opening yellowish and becoming saffron and brick-red; inner fls. yellow, changing to orange. Var. crdcea {Zi. crdcea, Jacq.). Fls. opening sulfur- yellow and changing to saffron. 1852:461. Var. sanguinea (L. sanguinea, Medic). Pis. opening saffron-j^ellow, changing to bright red. purpflrea, Hornem. Erect: branches 4-angled and somewhat hairy, with few recurved spines: lv3. ovate, narrowed- into a petiole, acuminate, serrate-crenate, ru- gose: fls. purple, very pretty, in hemispherical-umbel- late heads, the bracts short and lance-subulate. S. Amer. —Int. by Franceschi, 1900. A form of i. Camara ? AA. Plant never spiny: fruit thin-fleshed, usually not juicy. trifdlia, Linn. [L, annua, Linn.). Half-shrubby, hairy: Ivs. ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, pointed, crenate-dentate, in 3's or 4's: heads becoming ovoid or oblong, the involucre not conspicuous: fls. rose-lilac varying to white, with yellow throat: fr. rather pulpy, showing well amongst the bracts. Trop. Amer. 1449.—The name Ij. annua seems to have been applied to young plants, on the impression that they were annuals. The picture of L. annua in 1022 is quite as likely to be a form of Zi. Camara. Little known in cult. Sellowi&na, Link and Otto {L. delicatissima, ). Weeping or Trailing Lantana. Twiggy, slender plant with lopping or trailing pubescent branches: Ivs. small, ovate, tapering below, close-toothed: fls. small, in long- stalked small heads, rosy lilac, the outer bracts or scales of the involucre broad-ovate and hairy and half or less as long as the
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