. 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. 1875. Polygala paucifolia. Natural size. Walt.). Fls. over 1 in. long. 3616. 8:609. P. Dalmaisidna, which is very like this, is discussed above. virgita, Thunb. Glabrous shrub, 2-5 or even 15 ft. high, with rod-like branches terminating in many-fid., leafless racemes of purple or fiesh-colored fis.: a
. 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. 1875. Polygala paucifolia. Natural size. Walt.). Fls. over 1 in. long. 3616. 8:609. P. Dalmaisidna, which is very like this, is discussed above. virgita, Thunb. Glabrous shrub, 2-5 or even 15 ft. high, with rod-like branches terminating in many-fid., leafless racemes of purple or fiesh-colored fis.: anterior sepals distinct: wings obtuse. S. Afr. —The typical form is advertised in S. Calif., but in Eu. probably the only form cult, is var. Speci6sa, Harv. (P. specldsa, Sims). Glabrous: lower Ivs. obovate or cuneate, upper more linear, all obtuse: raceme long and lax: bracts soon deciduous. S. Afr. 1780. 7:621. 2:150. B. 1:43. apop6tala, T. S. Brandegee. Frutescent, 2-3 ft. high: branches slender, pubescent: Ivs. lanceolate, en- tire, obtuse, alternate, remote, short-petioled, nearly glabrous: fls. large, pink, on slender pedicels % in. or more long; sepals 4, the upper and lower small, equal, cynibiform, margins ciliate, the lateral very large, nearly orbicular; petals 5, separate, upper strap-shaped, two-thirds as long as keel, lateral pointed, less than one- half as long, embraced with the 8 stamens by the large cymbiform keel, which is opened on the upper and lower edge and not cristate, or appendaged: seeds 2, large, ovoid, pubescent. Lower Calif. amatymbica, Eckl. & Zeyn. (P. acuminilfa, E. Mey. & Hort. CM, not Willd.). Densely tufted, erect, 3-6 in. high: Ivs. lanceolate acuminate, pungently mucro- nate: racemes lateral, few-fid., spreading or refiexed: fls. small, wings green, keel and petals flesh color to purple; keel with a many-parted crest. —P. acifni in at a of. the trade is probably not P. aciDtiinata, Willd., which is Bttdie
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