. 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. d, with 2 or 4 sub-digitate pinnate linear-oblongIfts.: fls. many, in globular-oblong heads on elongatingaxillary peduncles, purplish: pods comprising3 or 4 spinyjoints. Brazil, but widely naturalized in warm countries.— Easily grown from seeds, which are sold by plant
. 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. d, with 2 or 4 sub-digitate pinnate linear-oblongIfts.: fls. many, in globular-oblong heads on elongatingaxillary peduncles, purplish: pods comprising3 or 4 spinyjoints. Brazil, but widely naturalized in warm countries.— Easily grown from seeds, which are sold by plant grows readily in any place in which gardenbeans will thrive. It is grown for its sensitive movements are usually quickest in young the Ivs. are touched, the petiole falls and the leaf-lets close. Neither the mechanism nor the utility of thesemovements is well understood. M. sensitlva, Linn.,is a distinct plant ( 1:25). It is a half-climbing per-ennial with 2 unequally pinnate Ifts., not so sensitive asM. piidica. The word pndica is Latin for modest orretirinfj. AA. Woody Primary jiinnce 1 pair. Spegazini, Pirotta. Spiny: pinnse 2, bearing verynumerous Ifts.: fls. light purple, in globular heads or 1403. Sensitive Plant (X J^).Normal position of the leaf is shownon the. bulbs 3-5 in. long, muchflattened : Ivs. linear-ohlong, obtuse, 5-6 : fls. 2 in. long fromtlie tips of the lip to thatof the upper sepal, nu-merous, borne in abranched nodding pani-cle; sepals and petalscuneate - obovate, wavedand crisped, pale reddishbrown,with whitish tips;labellum oblong, fan-shaped, bifid, white, with a largerose-purple disk on the center of which is a large,brownish yellow blotch. March. Peru. 5843. :1831. U. Russelllina, Lindl. {Oncidium Bitssellidnum,Lindl.). Pseudobulbs ovate, ribbed, 2-lvd.: Ivs. nar-rowly lanceolate: flower stems dark purple, few-fld.:sepals and petals ovate-oblong, somewhat undulate,brownish purple with green ma
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