. 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. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 1184. Isoloma TydEca(X>2). ancient Britons used the Woad for staining their bodies, and the word Britain itself comes from an old Celtic word meaning painted. Before indigo became common in Europe, the Dyer's Woad
. 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. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 1184. Isoloma TydEca(X>2). ancient Britons used the Woad for staining their bodies, and the word Britain itself comes from an old Celtic word meaning painted. Before indigo became common in Europe, the Dyer's Woad produced the chief blue coloring matter for woolen cloth. The introduction of indigo in the seventiiuth cioitury destroyed this im- portant industry, not witliout Dioscorides and Pliny mention Imlli tin' Dvit's Woad and indigo. /. tineldria, Linn., is ratlier tall, glabrous and glau- cous: stera-lvs. lanceolate, entire, sessile, somewhat ar- row-shaped: fls. small, yellow, borne in early summer, on panicled racemes. Instead of apod, opening length- wise by valves, it has a closed fruit like on the samara of an ash, 1-celled, 1-seeded. indehiscent, wing-like. It is a biennial, and common in Europe. ISCHAKUM. See Biarnm. ISMfiNE. Now referred to ITjimenocaUis. ISNAKDIA. Includes a few species of Lmlwigia. ISOCHiLUS (Greek, c^KoZ ?ip). OrchidHceo'. A genus of no commercial value. Plants epiphytic, with tall, slender, leafy stems, without pseudobulbs, bearing a few small fls. at the summit. Sepals erect, free, keeled; pet- als similar but plane; labellum like the petals and united ISOLOMA with them to the base of the column, somewhat sigmoid below the middle: column erect, long, without wings: pollinia 4. About 5 species in Braz., Mex., and W. Ind. lineiriB, R. Br. Slender, 1-lJ^ ft. high, leafy: Ivs. dis- tichous, linear, striate, obtuse, emarginate, 1,^2 in. long: fls. purple, borne in a short, terminal spike. March. (Trowing on rocks and trees in thick woods, Jamaic
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