. 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. 985. Asa Gray at 76 years. cult, in a few American conservatories. For culture and for distinctions from allied genera, see Bertolonia, un- der which name most of the varieties are still known. guttata, Triana {Sertoldnia f/i(Wdto, Hook.). Caules- cent, erect: branches obtusely 4-angled: petioles long, densely
. 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. 985. Asa Gray at 76 years. cult, in a few American conservatories. For culture and for distinctions from allied genera, see Bertolonia, un- der which name most of the varieties are still known. guttata, Triana {Sertoldnia f/i(Wdto, Hook.). Caules- cent, erect: branches obtusely 4-angled: petioles long, densely scurfy-powdery: Ivs membranous, 5-nerved, rotund at base, slightly scurfy above and spotted, under side and calyx scurfy-powdery, cymes terminal, several- fld. Int. 1865, and first described at 5524 as B. gut- tata, where the Ivs. are shown with fairly well defined, double, longitudinal rows of roundish pink dots. F. S. 16:1696 is probably a copy of 5524. (See, also, Gt. 1865, p. 385, and 1865, p. 225.) Var. sup6rha, Hort., :359 (18(9) is shown, with more and larger red- dish purple spots, which are less regularly arranged. Var. Legrelleina {B. BegrelJechia, Van Houtte). An alleged hybrid obtained by Van Houtte and figured in F. S". 23: 2407. Coigneux refers this plate to Gravesia guttata, but no fls. are shown, nor have the Ivs. any spots. The nerves are outlined in white, and some of the cross veins for short distances. Var. Alfred Bleu is brilliantly spotted and lined with bright red, the nerves boldly outlined, the cross veins interruptedly outlined. 41:13 (1894). Var. marg-ariticea, Nichol- son {B. inarqaritdcea, Hort. W. BuW^Soucrila 'inar- garitacea. 16:1697). See DC. Mon. Phan. 7: 537. GRAY, ASA (Fig. 985), botanist and naturalist, was born in Paris, Oneida corinty, N. Y.,Nov. 18, 1810, and died in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 30, 1888. His father was a tanner. He studied medicine, but never prac- ticed it. He early became interested in bot
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