. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. 96 Ru tacca—Dicta m n us. 1. I), cdbus (fig. 62). suffrutescent herb about 1. DICTAMNUS. Calyx 5-partite, deciduous, the lower segments longest. Petals 5, the four upper ones ascending, the lower one distant, turned downwards. Disk annular, fleshy. Stamens 10, free, declinate. Fruit consisting of five confluent rostrate 2- or 3- seeded carpels, dehiscin
. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. 96 Ru tacca—Dicta m n us. 1. I), cdbus (fig. 62). suffrutescent herb about 1. DICTAMNUS. Calyx 5-partite, deciduous, the lower segments longest. Petals 5, the four upper ones ascending, the lower one distant, turned downwards. Disk annular, fleshy. Stamens 10, free, declinate. Fruit consisting of five confluent rostrate 2- or 3- seeded carpels, dehiscing in two valves. One species, widely dispersed in the north temperate zone in the Old World. This is a very variable plant, and has been divided into several species by some authors. A classical name. Fraxinella or Dittany.—An erect 2 feet high. Leaves alternate, un- equally pinnate, exhaling a 230werful odour when rubbed. This is a handsome plant and a very old inhabitant of cot- tage gardens. There are rose, bright red and white varieties. Native of Central and South- ern Europe, flowering in early Spring. 2. PTELEA. Deciduous shrubs or small trees with bitter bark, usually alternate trifoliolate or pin- nate leaves with pellucid dots, cymose inconspicuous yellowish green flowers, and orbicular winged fruits. Flowers poly- gamous. Calyx 4- or 5-partite, lobes imbricate. Petals 4 or 5, much longer than the calyx. Stamens 4 or 5. Ovary 2- or 3-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell. There are six species, from temperate North Ame- rica. TTTsXia is the Grreek name of Uliiius cainpestris, which like this has winged fruits. 1. P. trifoUata. Hop-tree.—A small tree of no special merit, with trifoliolate glabrous yellowish green leaves on long petioles; leaflets ovate, obscurely crenate. The leaves and fruits when bruised emit a powerful odour resembling hops. There is a variegated Fig. 62. Dictamnus ulbus. (J nat. size.). Please note that these images are extracted from
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