. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. HOSACKIA west American plants. The genus contains about 30 spe- cies, all American and almost wholly confined to the Pa- cific slope. Herbs or rarely subshrubs: Ivs. pinnate,with 2 to many Ifts.: stipules minute and g


. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. HOSACKIA west American plants. The genus contains about 30 spe- cies, all American and almost wholly confined to the Pa- cific slope. Herbs or rarely subshrubs: Ivs. pinnate,with 2 to many Ifts.: stipules minute and gland-like, rarely scarious or leafy: tis. yellow or reddish, in axillary um- bels which are peduncled or not. The genus is closely related to Lotus, but the calyx teeth are shorter than thetube: keel obtuse: Ivs. usually with numerous Ifts., none of which are like stipules, while Lotus has calyx lobes usually longer than the tube, a rostrate keel and 5 or 4 Ifts., of which 2 or 1 are stipule-like. The 2 species first mentioned belong to a section in which the pods are shortly acute, linear, many-st^LMk-d, straight, glabrous: fls. and fr. not reflexed : peduncles long. The third species belongs to a section in which the pods are long-attenuate upwards, incurved, pubes- cent: peduncles short or none: fls. and fr. reflexed. Monogr. by Watson in Bot. Calif. 1:133. crassifdlia, Benth. Stout, 2-3 ft. high, nearly gla- brous : Ifts. 9-15, thickish : stipules scarious, small: bract below the umbel : calj'x teeth short : pod thick: fls. greenish yellow or purplish. 23:1977. bicolor, Dougl. Glabrous: Ifts. 5-9: stipules scarious, small: bract usually none or small: calyx teeth half as long as the tube : pod slender : fls. yellow, the wings often white. 2913. decumbens, Benth. Silky or woolly, with appressed hairs: stems ascending, 1 ft. or more long: stems her- baceous: Ifts. 5-7: umbels less dense: stipules gland- like: pods pubescent. W. JI. HOTBEDS. These are low glass struc


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