. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1664 SHOO-FLY PLANT proposed by < SHOOTING STAB. See Dodecatheon. SHOEE-GEAPE. See Coecoloha. SH6ETIA (named for Dr. Charles W. Short, a botanist of Kentucky). Viapensi&cea. Of the little family Diapensiacere, with its U genera and 8 spe- cies, Shortia galacifoU
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1664 SHOO-FLY PLANT proposed by < SHOOTING STAB. See Dodecatheon. SHOEE-GEAPE. See Coecoloha. SH6ETIA (named for Dr. Charles W. Short, a botanist of Kentucky). Viapensi&cea. Of the little family Diapensiacere, with its U genera and 8 spe- cies, Shortia galacifoUa is historically the most inter- esting. Michaux collected the plant m 1788 m the high mountains of Carolina, but as his specimen was m fruit rather than in flower, Richard, the author of Michaux s "Flora Boreali-Americana," did not describe it. Asa Gray examined Michaux's specimen, preserved in Paris, in 1839, and afterwards founded the genus Shortia on it Great search was made for the plant in the moun- tains of Carolina, but it was not rediscovered until 1877. The history of the efforts to find the plant is one of the most interesting chapters in American botany. For his-. 2322 Every part of Ihe place is equally accented torical sketch, see Sargent, "Garden and Forest," vol. 'Torrey & Gray founded the genus Shortia in 1842. In 1843 Siebold & Zuccarini founded the genus Schizocodon, from Japan. To this genus Maxiraowicz added a second Japanese species, S. uniflorns; the flowers of this plant, as of Shortia, were unknown when the plant was hrst recognized. It transpires, however, that Sclnsocodon vniflorvs is really a Shortia, thus adding another in- stance to the growing list of bltypic genera that are endemic to Japan and eastern North America. Shortia includes two acaulescent herbs, with the habit of Galax, with creeping rootstocks and evergreen round- cordate Ivs.: fl. solitary on a slender leafless scape, the calyx with scaly bracts, the corol
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