The century supplement to the dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists . Travers). A lip,^t purple, streaked with carmine,large. I. silvery, similar to those of G. argenteum, but Zealand, 1898. G. tuberosum Charlesii (Dr. Charles). Jl. rose-coloured, l^in. across, the petals enlarging till they fall off. I., radicalones none ; lowest canline ones long-petiolate, the uppermostones sessile. Afghanistan, 1885. (B. M. 6910.) GERARI>IA. Including Dashtoma or pedicellate or almost stalkloss, s
The century supplement to the dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists . Travers). A lip,^t purple, streaked with carmine,large. I. silvery, similar to those of G. argenteum, but Zealand, 1898. G. tuberosum Charlesii (Dr. Charles). Jl. rose-coloured, l^in. across, the petals enlarging till they fall off. I., radicalones none ; lowest canline ones long-petiolate, the uppermostones sessile. Afghanistan, 1885. (B. M. 6910.) GERARI>IA. Including Dashtoma or pedicellate or almost stalkloss, sub-racemose atthe tips of tho branches, without liracteoles ; calyieampanolate, fivo-tootbed or five-cleft nearly to themiddle; corolla tube broad, the limb spreading, with fiverounded lobes ; stamens foui-. To the species describedon p. 65, Vol. II., the following should bo added : G, tenuifolia (slender-leaved). Jl. pale violet, Pentstemon-like;corolla iin. or more in length ; peduncles slightly exceedingthe leaves. June to August. /. linear, a<^ute, ,^in. to light green, k. Ipit Mexico, 1894. A Fig. 408. Gerbera Jambsoni. 1900 Supplement—Recent Introductions, &c. 389 GXiRBEKiA (named iu honour of Gerber, a Germannaturalist, who travelled in Russia). Obd. genus embraciug about twenty species of g;rocnhou3eherbs, with a vury short, perennial caudex, all Africanand Asiatic (tempurate or monntuinous regions). Flower-hcads yellow, pink, or white, solitary, heterogamoas andradiate, rarely homogamou8 and discoid ; involucre tur-binate or broadly campanulate, the bracts in two or moreseries; receptacle flat; pappus copious; scape ualiod orscaly. Loaves radical, entire or sinnate-pinnatifid. Thethree species introduced thrive in a compost of sandyloam and poat. Propag^ation may be effected by seeds orby cutting-3 of the side shoots. In favoured localities andin dry, sunny borders, Q. Jame^onii may be grown outside ;but in all othe
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