. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. GRAPTOPHYLLUM elliptic, acuminate, irregularly marked with yellow along the midrib: fls. crimson, in axillary whorls; corolla pu- bescent. Habitat? 13:1227. Lowe 45. ( 1870 shows a variety with reddish brown coloring). GBASS (Graminea). Annual or perennitil he
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. GRAPTOPHYLLUM elliptic, acuminate, irregularly marked with yellow along the midrib: fls. crimson, in axillary whorls; corolla pu- bescent. Habitat? 13:1227. Lowe 45. ( 1870 shows a variety with reddish brown coloring). GBASS (Graminea). Annual or perennitil herbs (some bamboos woody), mostly tufted or decumbent, rarely climbing, often creeping and rooting at the base. True roots fibrous. Stems (culms) simple or branching, usually hollow (wheat), sometimes solid (maize) between the nodes. Leaves springing from the nodes, alternate, in two vertical rows on the stem; the sheaths closed. 983. Spike of a Grass (rye), containing many flowers. when young, but usually split down one side in matur- ing; ligule a thin tongue-like growth at the apex of the sheath ; blade entire, parallel-veined, commonly long and narrow; a 2-keeled membranous prophyllum (or leaf) always standing between each branch and the main axis. Spikelets in panicles, racemes or spikes, usually consisting of 2 (rarely 0, 1, or more than 2) chaffy empty glumes at the base of a short axis (ra- chilla), which supports one or more floral glumes, in the axil of each of which is commonly 1 flower. Flowers GRASS perfect or imperfect, destitute of true calyx or corolla. Between each floral glume and flower are usually 2 (rarely 3) minute hyaline scales (lodicules). Stamens :i (rarely 1, 2 or more than 3); pistil 1: ovary 1-celled, ]-ovuled ; styles 2 (rai-ely 1 or 3), usually plumose: fruit (grain or caryopsis) seed-like, often enclosed by the palet and its floral glume. Seed erect, closely cov- ered by the thin pericarp; embryo small, on one side of the base of the endosperm. Fi
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