. 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 . kenes are mostly terete and ribbed; pappus ofsoft whitish, often copious bristles. According to Gray,minute short hairs or papillre on the akenes of mostspecies swell and emit a pair of spiral threads whenwetted. Before wetting, the akenes may be really orapparently ghi))rous, and
. 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 . kenes are mostly terete and ribbed; pappus ofsoft whitish, often copious bristles. According to Gray,minute short hairs or papillre on the akenes of mostspecies swell and emit a pair of spiral threads whenwetted. Before wetting, the akenes may be really orapparently ghi))rous, and after wetting become canes-cent. Most of the Senecios are yellow-rayed. Of thevast number of species, very few have gained promi-nence as cultivated subjects. If we omit the greenhouseCineraria (which is technically a Senecio as understoodbv Bentliam & Hooker), the most popular species are the Farfngium gratide (properly Senecio Kwmpferi) offlorists, S. V. ikanioides or German ivy, iS. elegans orpurple ragwort, and S. Cineraria, one of the plantscommonly known as dusty miller. Various other plantsare known as dusty miller, and one of them (J^ig. 2312)is sometimes confounded with Senecio Cineraria. All other species are of very minor importance to thehorticulturist. Of the GO or more species native to the.
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