. 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. 336 CLIDEMIA CLIVIA John Saul, has large, oval, pointed Ivs. with 5 strong nerves, and a narrow band of white down each side of the midrib. 22:219. 1876, p. 233. CLIFF BEAKE. See Pellma. CLIMBERS are distinguished from twiners by having some means of attachment, as tendrils or other special devices, w
. 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. 336 CLIDEMIA CLIVIA John Saul, has large, oval, pointed Ivs. with 5 strong nerves, and a narrow band of white down each side of the midrib. 22:219. 1876, p. 233. CLIFF BEAKE. See Pellma. CLIMBERS are distinguished from twiners by having some means of attachment, as tendrils or other special devices, while twiners rise by twisting their stems round their support. In a wider sense the word is synonymously with "; By "trailers,"nurserymen commonly mean low-growing vines, and by "climbers," taller-growing vines. See Vines. CLIMBING FERN. See Lynodium. Climbing Fumi- tory is Adlumia eirrhosa. Climbing Hempweed, Mika- nia scandens. Climbing Lily, Gloriosa superba. CLINOSItGMA (Greek, inclined stigma). Palmdcem, tribe Arecem. Spineless, with low or tall, prominently or obscurely ringed trunks: Ivs. terminal, equally pin- natisect; segments somewhat falcate-lanceolate, broad at the base, plicate, acuminate, the apes bifid or obliquely truncate and dentate, the thick margins scarcely re- curved at the base ; raohis scaly, convex on the back, obtusely keeled above : spadix long : fertile branches long, thick, the floral areas distant : spatbes 2-3: fr. globose or subglobose, small, red at maturity. Species 3. Australasia and Samoa. This graceful and recent palm resembles Howea For- steriana somewhat in habit of growth, but its arching Ivs. spread wider, and its stems are dark purplish, and its pinn» tough and leathery. The palm is free and clean in growth. Moore^num, P. Muell. (Kintia Mooredna, P. Muell.). Dwarf palm, 3-4 ft. high : Ivs. 3-4 ft. long ; segments about 1 ft. long, longitudinally plicate when young. New South Wales. Jaked
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