. 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. (U,ADIOT,rS ULAUCIUM 64!) OCC. Piidei--or body-color essciitlnllii neUoic. 19. dracoc6phalu3, Hook. f. Stem stout, 2 ft. or less: Ivs. 3-4, rather tirm: fls. 3-(J, of medium size, yellowish green, the tube (2 in. or less long) curved; upper sc't;- raents elliptic-oI)Ovate and more or less hooded, yellow- ish an
. 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. (U,ADIOT,rS ULAUCIUM 64!) OCC. Piidei--or body-color essciitlnllii neUoic. 19. dracoc6phalu3, Hook. f. Stem stout, 2 ft. or less: Ivs. 3-4, rather tirm: fls. 3-(J, of medium size, yellowish green, the tube (2 in. or less long) curved; upper sc't;- raents elliptic-oI)Ovate and more or less hooded, yellow- ish and closely striate witli purple, the other segraeuts much smaller and reflexing, mostly green and purple spotted. 20. paittaclnus, Hook. (G. iV^a/a/f', Reinw.). Stem 3 ft. high, stout: Ivs. aliout 4, rather rigid : tls. many and large, with a curved tube nearly or quite 2 in. long, rich yellow but thickly grained arid (.iverlaid with red (particularly about the margins of the segments); up- per segments obovate and hooded, the lower much smaller and reflesing. .3032. 17;1442. 18:1750. —One of the leading parents of garden Ula- dioli. 21. purpfireo-aiiritus, Hook. f. Stem 3—t ft., very slender: Ivs. 3—4, short: Us. 10 or more, primrose-yel- low, medium in size, the curved tube less than 1 in. long; segments obovate, not widely spreading, the lower ones with a purple blotch. 5944. 2:89. —Hand- some. A parent of modern Gladioli. OCCC. Under- or Jwdy-cojor irhifo. {Forni.^ of Xo. 1,' muij be .iuu(jlit here.) 22. bWnduB, Ait. Stem 2 ft. or less tall : Ivs. usually 4: fls. few, white and red-tinged, the curved tube l^i in. long; segments all oblong or oblong-spatulate and flar- ing or recurved, some of them red-marked in the throat. Variable. Sometimes pure white ( 648), and some- times flesh-color ( 045).-An old garden plant. 23. Jloribiindus, Jacq. Stem short (1 ft.), producing fls. from near its base : Ivs. usuall
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