. 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. 1251, Air-Layering. ish, its copious villous hairs much shorter than the awn- shaped bristles, which are long plumose below the mid- dle. This and the next have a few small, scattered, stalked glands which are wanting from tlie last two. Gn. 31, p. 465. —Procurable from western collectors. Perhaps the best of t
. 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. 1251, Air-Layering. ish, its copious villous hairs much shorter than the awn- shaped bristles, which are long plumose below the mid- dle. This and the next have a few small, scattered, stalked glands which are wanting from tlie last two. Gn. 31, p. 465. —Procurable from western collectors. Perhaps the best of the genus. platygldssa, Gray. Some of the upper lvs. pin- natifid : rays light yellow, commonly white- tipped : pappus of stout, awn-like bristles which are upwardly scabrous. 3719. —Cult, in Eu. BB. Plants not hairy or at most minutely pubescent. Calligl6ssa, Gray. Akenes villous-puhesoent or partly glabrate: pappus of 10-18 very unequal and rigid awl-shaped awns. B. R. 22:1850 (er- roneously as Oxyura clirysanthemoides). chrysanthemoides, Gray (Oxyura cJirysanthe- mn'ides, DC). Akenes wholly glabrous, broader: pappus none. Not 22:1850, which is the above. According to Thorburn this is a hardy annual trailer with white fls., blooming in sum- mer and autumn. LEAD PLANT is Amorpha ean&eeens. LEADWOET. Plumbayo. 57. 1252. A horizontal multiple layer. LEBIDIER6PSIS (Greek ; resembling Lebidiera, a genus now included in Cleistanthus). JSuphorbidcece. This geniis includes a small tree with very hard wood, and of unknown value, introdiiced from a botanical gar- den of northern India by Reasoner Bros., Oneco, Pla. Lebidieropsis was reduced by Bentham and Hooker to the rank of a subgenus of Cleistanthus, but in the Flora of British India Hooker says that Lebidieropsis should probably be restored, the seeds being globose, while in Cleistanthus they are always oblong. The seeds also differ in structure. Generic characters of Cleistan- thus are: trees or shrubs: lvs. alte
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