. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . Selenipedium SELENIPEDIUM SELF-STERILITY 1653 rather stiff upright, about 1 ft. long: scape 12-24 , about 4-«d.: dorsal sepals 5-G in. long, lanceolate,pale yellow, verging on creamy white and veined withgreenish, lower sepal similar; petals pendent, twisted,often attaining
. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . Selenipedium SELENIPEDIUM SELF-STERILITY 1653 rather stiff upright, about 1 ft. long: scape 12-24 , about 4-«d.: dorsal sepals 5-G in. long, lanceolate,pale yellow, verging on creamy white and veined withgreenish, lower sepal similar; petals pendent, twisted,often attaining a length of nearly a yard, yellowish,shaded with brown on the outside and becoming brown-ish crimson toward the tips. Peru. G:5G6. RH1857, p. 318; 1883, p. :«1; 1885, p. 472. :211;26:269. Gn. 3,; 26, p. 72; .{2, p. 301; 46, p. 85. :132; 6:859. Gng. 5:265. 31:557; 33:795; 35 2309. Selenipedium Dotninianum (X 1-5). — One of the largest of the Selenipediums and remark-able on account of the extremely long petals. Peloricforms with the third sepal (labellum) resembling theother two have passed under the name of CfropediumLindeni, Lindl. Var. rdseum, Hort. (S. caudMum, var. Warscewiczii,Godfrey.). Sepals yellow, with orange veins ; petalsdeep purple; labellum deep yellow in front, green be-hind. 33:596. Var. Wdllisii, Hort. (S. Wdllisii,Reichb. f. Cypripedium Wdllisii, Kort.). Lvs. palergreen: fls. pale, and in every way more delicate thanthe type. Gn. 49, p. 140. Numerous other varieties ofthis species are distinguished in cultivation. The fol-lowing names occur in trade lists: aiireum, Luxembur-g6nse, rilbrum, sup§rbum, Sedgerii, splendens, nigres-cens. 15. gT^nde, Reichb. f. (Cypripedium grdnde, ). A garden hj-brid between S. Baezlii and S. eanda-tum, resembling the former in habit and flowers butmuch more vigorous, with darker fls.: lvs.
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