. 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. GTNUKA GYPSOPHILA 705 Only slightly villous; Ivs. oval, entire or repand, green both sides: fls. yellow, fragrant. China. 2:101. —G. bicolor, DC., 2-3 ft., of looser growth than the ahove, glabrous: Ivs. lance-ovate, somewhat downy, short-petioled, deep-toothed or pinnatifid, gi-een above and purple beneat
. 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. GTNUKA GYPSOPHILA 705 Only slightly villous; Ivs. oval, entire or repand, green both sides: fls. yellow, fragrant. China. 2:101. —G. bicolor, DC., 2-3 ft., of looser growth than the ahove, glabrous: Ivs. lance-ovate, somewhat downy, short-petioled, deep-toothed or pinnatifid, gi-een above and purple beneath; fls orange. Mo- luccas. B. M. 5123. —(r. ovaCis, sar- mentosa, DG. Climbing, with purple glabrous stems; Ivs. nar- row, ovate to lanceolate, acuminate petioled, remotely small- toothed, green and purple-ribbed. Warmhouse plant from Malayan Is. 7244. L. H. B. GYPS6PHILA (gypsum-loving, because it likes cal- careous soils). herbs, bearin; Carifophylldcete. European and Asian a profusion of small fls., and useful for mist-like effects iu mixed borders and as trimming in bouquets. There are perhaps 60 species. Sepals 5, united below, but the calyx naked at the base (not bracted, as iu some related gen- era) : petals 5, clawed, very small, usu- ally white: styles 2: pod 4-valved: Ivs. small, entire, opposite. Very branchy or spreading, slender herbs, with scant foliage when in bloom. Of easiest cul- ture, in open, rather dry places. They are desirable for rockwork. They make an excellent effect as flUiug amongst shrubbery; also good for covering un- kempt places with a mass of delicate bloom. Hardy. A. Plant annual, 1012. Gypsophlla murilis, Linn. Fig. 1011. Very dif- elegans. fuse and branchy, mostly with shorter Natural size. joints than O. elegans, of finer appear- ance : Ivs. linear, spurry like : fls. small, rosy; 1-lK ft. Eu.—Makes a dense little mound when well grown. Slegans, Bieb. Pig. 1012. Repeatedly forked-branched, glabrous: Ivs. ses
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