. 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. 1630 SCILLA SCILLA A. Shape of fls. campanulate: color blue, blue - lilac, rose -purple, white. B. Pedicels short: bracts linear, in pairs: raceme mani/-fid.: fls. broadly campanulate, pro- duced from April to June ... 1. festalis BB. Pedicels short: bracts in pairs, scarious-hyaline 2. puscliMiiioides BBB. Ped
. 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. 1630 SCILLA SCILLA A. Shape of fls. campanulate: color blue, blue - lilac, rose -purple, white. B. Pedicels short: bracts linear, in pairs: raceme mani/-fid.: fls. broadly campanulate, pro- duced from April to June ... 1. festalis BB. Pedicels short: bracts in pairs, scarious-hyaline 2. puscliMiiioides BBB. Pedicels long [1-1% in.): ra- ceme equilateral, compact: fls. cylindrical-catnpanulate, produced in May 3. Hispanica AA. Shape of fls. saucer - shaped to open-rotate. B. Color of fls. rose, size small. C. Size of fls. small, color rose- purple: raceme dense, 30-60-fid.: Ivs. linear, fleshy 4. Numidica cc. Size of fls. very small {one- eighth in. long): raceme dense: scape slender: bracts ivhitish, minute 5. Chinensis CCC. Size of fls. larger (H iu. in diam.): pedicels long, as- cending or spreading: ra- ceme open. July to 6. autumnalis BB. Color of fls. blue or lilac-blue: size larger (%-l in.). C. Kaceme very dense [100-15- fld.), at first conical, then long, compact and broad: scape robust. May 7. Peruviana cc. Raceme several- to many-fid., open: fls. mostly distant. D. Lvs. single: raceme about 5-fld.: plant small. May 8. monopliyllos DD. Lvs. in pairs, cucullate: raceme 3-8-fid., ebrac- teate: perianth blue, red- dish, or whitish. March. 9. bifolia DDD. Leaves more than S. E. Foliage very broad- lanceolate: bulb large: raceme many- fid. [50-100). Natalensis EE. Foliage large, broad [yk-lVi in.); margin ciliate -denticulate: racemes many - fid., open. August 11. hyacinthoides EEE. Foliage lanceolate, sometimes narrowly so. F. iVo. of fls. 1-3 V2. Sibirica FF. No. of fls . 4-8. March 13. amcena FFF. iVo. of fls. 6-30: ra- ceme at first conical, then open 14. It
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