. 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. 72-i HKLICODICEROS from bulb ticklers in the fall and flowered under glass in the spring. It is a most vile-smelling plant when in full flower. The plucky artist who drew the aeconi- panying picture of this arum wrote at the bottom of his drawing, "Air ';. 1031. Helicodiceros muscivorus (X 1c. musc
. 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. 72-i HKLICODICEROS from bulb ticklers in the fall and flowered under glass in the spring. It is a most vile-smelling plant when in full flower. The plucky artist who drew the aeconi- panying picture of this arum wrote at the bottom of his drawing, "Air ';. 1031. Helicodiceros muscivorus (X 1c. musclvorus, Kng, (R. crinltiis, Schott. A nun criul- tum. Ait. Dracuncidus crin'itu.'i, Schott). Fig. lOiU. Height IK ft.: spalhe-Umb purple, covered with purple hairs. Corsica. 10 :445. W. Jl. HELICdNIA (Mt. Helicon, in Greece, seat of the Muses), ticit'oniitdceie. Foliage plants allied to Musa. Perhaps 25 to uO species in tropical America. The plants are grown, in a warmhouse along with Alocasias, An- thuriums and Calatheas: the directions given for the cultivation of Calathea apply very well to Helicouia. Under the name of Wild Plantain or Balisier, IT. Bihui is cult, outdoors in S. Fla. and along the Uulf of Mex. It is an evergreen shrub rivaling the bananas in foliage and scarlet and black tlower-sheatbs. E. N. Eeasoner classes it among plants that sprout up readily in tlie ex- treme South if killed by frost, and recommends it as a house plant for the South. From ^lu'in, Heliconia differs chiefly in having a dry, often dehiscing, 3-locuk'(.l, li-seeded fruit. Fls. in clus- ters belowthe Ivs., subtended by bracts afterthe way of Musa; sepals 3, linear, free or soraewbat joined to the corolla; corolla short-tnl.)ed; stamens .5; staminodium 1: Ivs. large and striking, often beautifully marked; stems arising from a strong rnotstock. Various species have been introduced into cult., but the fwllowiug are the only ones a[ipearing in the Amer. trade. Bihdi, Linn. Balis
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