Archive image from page 260 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture . 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 cyclopediaofame04bail Year: 1906 SPARTIUM fiber, which is used in S. France and Spain for making ropes, cords and cloths. Many species of Cytisus and Genista were formerly referred to this genus. For Spartium jEtnense, Biv., ;S. ferox, Poir., S. monosper
Archive image from page 260 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture . 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 cyclopediaofame04bail Year: 1906 SPARTIUM fiber, which is used in S. France and Spain for making ropes, cords and cloths. Many species of Cytisus and Genista were formerly referred to this genus. For Spartium jEtnense, Biv., ;S. ferox, Poir., S. monosper- mttm, Linn., S. radiatum, Linn, and S. virgafum, Ait., see Genista; for S. purgans, Linn., and S. scoparium, Linn., see Cytisus; Spartium multiflorum, sus albus. jiinceum, Linn. (Genista }4neea,ljam. Spartidnthus jilnceus, Link.). Spanish Broom. Upright shrub, 10 ft. high, with slender, terete, green, rush-like branches sparingly leafy or almost leafless: Ivs. oblanceolate to linear, entire, bluish green and sparingly appressed pu- bescent, K-IK in. long: fls. fragrant, yellow, about 1 in. long, with ample standard: pod linear, pubescent, 2-3 in. long. June-Sept., in Calif, blooming almost the whole year. 85. 23:1974 (as S. acutifoUus). Gn. 22, p. 404; 34, p. 284; 44, p. is a double- fld. form. Alfred Rehder. SPATHIPHtLLUM (Greek word, referring to the leaf-like spathes). ArAcea;. About 20 species of nearly stemless plants, mostly from tropical America, with large, oblong or lanceolate, acuminate or cuspidate, long-petioled leaves and flowers on a long-peduncled spadix subtended by an oblong or lanceolate, leaf-like, white, persistent, flat spathe: stigma 3-lobed: ovules in each locule 2-8, fixed at the interior angles of the cells. Gardeners recommend as soil for their culture a mixture of leaf-mold, peat and fibrous loam, together with some sand and charcoal. A. Spathe less than 4 in. long. B. Ia's. S in. wide. floribiindum, N. E. Br. Petioles
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