. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . TRAGOPYRUM Bieb. The Goat Wheat. Lin. Syst. Octandria Trigynia. Identification. Bieb. Flor. Taurico-Caucas., 3. p. 284. Synonyrne. Polygonum Lin.
. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . TRAGOPYRUM Bieb. The Goat Wheat. Lin. Syst. Octandria Trigynia. Identification. Bieb. Flor. Taurico-Caucas., 3. p. 284. Synonyrne. Polygonum Lin. Hort. Ups., 95., Willd. Sp., 2. p. 440., Bot. Mag., , Sot. Derivation. Tragos, a goat, and puros, wheat. The S-cornered fruits of such of the PolygonaceKas have them are comparable, with some allowance, to wheat; and goats may feed upon those ofthe Tragopyrum, or upon the shrubs themselves; or it may be that the name has been inventedas one readily distinctive from the name Fagopjrum, now the name of a genus that includes thedifferent kinds of buck-wheat. %.. ^ 1. T. lanceolaVum Bieb. The \iceo\ Goat Wheat. Identification. Bieb. Fl. Taurico-Caucas. Synonymes. PolJ^gonum frutcscens Willd. Sp. PI,2. p. 440., Willd. Baumx., p. 286., Bot. lief;., t. ; strauchartiger Kniiterig, Omel. Sib., 3. t. J2. f. 2.; Bot. Reg., t. 254.; and owx fig. 1161. CHAP. XCIl. POLYGONA CEiT,. TRAGOPY RUM. 1293. Spec. S^r. Stem spreading lanceolate, tapered to l)oth ends,.flat. Oclirea lanceolate, shorter tlian theinternode. The 2 exterior sepals reflexed,the 3 interior ones obcordate. Flowersoctandrous, trigynous. A native of Sibe-ria and Daluiria. (IVUhi.) A shrub, anative of Siberia, growing from I ft. tomore than 2 ft. high, branciiy, even to thebase. Introduced in 1770, but nu-e incollections. Branches twiggy. Leaf witha frosty hue, spatlmlate-Ianceolate, nearly1 in. long, several times longer than broad ;its edge obscurely ind
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