. 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. CENOTHERA OENOTHERA 1121 332.—Very variable. Var. Youngii {CE. Toungii, Hort.) is coinmon in cultivation, and is prized for its stocky growth and profusion of bloom. It is a strong, larger- leaved plant, "with firm, shiny, slightly glancous foliage, and bearing many bright lemon-yellow flowers: 2 ft., much
. 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. CENOTHERA OENOTHERA 1121 332.—Very variable. Var. Youngii {CE. Toungii, Hort.) is coinmon in cultivation, and is prized for its stocky growth and profusion of bloom. It is a strong, larger- leaved plant, "with firm, shiny, slightly glancous foliage, and bearing many bright lemon-yellow flowers: 2 ft., much branched and somewhat decumbent at base. Ex- cellent. Var. m^jor, Hort., is a strong-growing florifer- ous form, forming a dense bush-like specimen. 12. linearis, Micks. f(^./'rzfh'cdsa, var. Zuiech-is,Wats. CE. riphria^ Nutt.). Usually lower and more slender: Ivs. linear to narrow-lanceolate: capsule mostly less broadly winged, clavate. Conn., south. Gn. 26, p. 481. 13. piimila, Linn. Slender, erect biennial: Ivs. ob- lanceolate or oblong, usually glabrous, entire, the radi- cal spatulate: fls. an inch or less across in a loose, leafy spike or raceme, the calyx-tube shorter than the ovary, the petals obcordate: capsule mostly clavate, short- stalbed or sessile. Nova Scotia, south. IX. Subgenus Hartmannia {including Xylopleurum, etc.). Stem-hearing: stigma 4-lobed: calyx-tube funnel form, often very long: capsule club-shaped or obovate, broad-winged: fls. white, pink or red, diurnal. A. Plant canescent or villous, usually erect, or at least prominently ascetiding. 14. specidsa, Nutt. Perennial, with a rootstock, erect or ascending branches, 2 ft. or less high, canescent: Ivs. linear to lance-oblong, 4 in. or less long, remotely or sinuately dentate, or the lower ones pinnatifid, at- tenuate at base: calyx-tube as long as the ovary; pet- als large, obcordate, white : capsule ^-% in. long, 8-winged, acute at top. Mo., W. and S. 3189. Gn. 26, p. 482. 15. tetr&ptera, Ca
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