. 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. 1220 PASSIFLORA PASSIPLORA dently setting forth the five wounds received by onr Lord on the cross. The colour of the columu, the crown, jmd the nails is a clear green. The crown itself is sur- rounded by a kind of veil or very fine hair, of a violet colour, the filaments of which number seventy-two, answering t
. 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. 1220 PASSIFLORA PASSIPLORA dently setting forth the five wounds received by onr Lord on the cross. The colour of the columu, the crown, jmd the nails is a clear green. The crown itself is sur- rounded by a kind of veil or very fine hair, of a violet colour, the filaments of which number seventy-two, answering to the number of thorns with which, accord- ing to tradition, our Lord's crown was set; and tl\e leaves of the plant, abundant and beautiful, are shaped like the head of a lance or i>ike, referring, no doubt, to. ^***iilUuWi^' 1650. Fruit of the May-pop.—Passiflora incarnata. Natural size. that which pierced the side of our Savior, whilst they are marked beneath with round spots, signifying the thirty pieces of silver.' " With the exception of a few Blalayan and Chinese species, the true Passifloras are natives of tropical America. Many of them are cultivated as curiosities, and some of them for the beauty of their flowers and for their festooning foJiage. The leaves are either digi- tately lobed or angled or perfectly entire. The large, showy flowers are solitai-y in the axils or on axillary racemes. The fruit is oblong or globular and usiially fleshy or berry-like, 3-carpeled but 1-loculed, the seeds being borne on parietal placentae. The fruit is allied to the pepo of the Cucurbitacese. The ovary is supported on a long stalk which is inclosed in or usually united with the tube formed by the union of the bases of the filaments. The structure of the fruit is -well shown in Fig. 1650; the remains of the floral envelopes have broken from the attachment on the torus and rest on the fruit. The petals are borne on the throat of the calyx, but in some species they are absen
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