Archive image from page 296 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture . 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 cyclopediaofame02bail Year: 1906 HOTTONIA submerged and alternate, pinnately dissected Ivs., the divisions numerous and linear, i'rom the center of the whorl of branches a single leafless flower-stem rises out of the water in summer, bearing a raceme wit
Archive image from page 296 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture . 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 cyclopediaofame02bail Year: 1906 HOTTONIA submerged and alternate, pinnately dissected Ivs., the divisions numerous and linear, i'rom the center of the whorl of branches a single leafless flower-stem rises out of the water in summer, bearing a raceme with sev- eral whorls of 3-5 or 6 handsome, pale purple fls., ap- â¡r forcing-house) heated by hot water. parently with 5 petals, but actually with a short corolla tube below the lobes. The plants root in the mud or float, and the fls. are about three-fourths of an inch in diameter. Stamens 5, inserted on the tube of the corolla: capsule subglobose, with 5 lateral valves : seeds nu- merous. The American plant, H. inJlata, Ell., has spongy stems and clustered peduncles, which are partly above water, inflated, jointed, the lowest jomt 2âi in long and sometimes 1 in. thick, the others 1-3 in num ber and successively shorter : fls. small, in whorls of 2-10 at the .ioints. 2:586. Neither species is id vertised. Like all aquarium plants, they are interesting but they have no horticultural value otherwise Both plants are called Peatherfoil and Water-violet, tin American also Water-feather and Water-yarrow HOULLfiTIA (after HouUet, French gardener) O) cliidAcece. About 8 species of epiphytic, pseudobulbous orchids from South America, allied to Stanhopea an 1 blooming in summer. Pseudobulbs conical 1 lei\ ( 1 Ivs. lanceolate, plicate: sepals and petals usually ne n 1 \ equal: labellum continuous with the clavate, artu ii column: poUinia 2, on a long caudicle. odoratissima, Linden. Sepals and petals redli 1 brown : labellum white, with two crimson append i midway of its length. C
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