. 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. LIVISTONA 933 petiole narrow-winged ; Ifts. 2-3 in. long, glabrous, with smull panicles of y:roenish yellow tls. and wliito drupes l-'J lines in diam. Brazil. J. B. S. Norton. LITTdNIA (Dr. Samuel Litton, professor of botany in Royal Dublin .Society). LUiitce<e. Littonia and Gloriosa are cal
. 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. LIVISTONA 933 petiole narrow-winged ; Ifts. 2-3 in. long, glabrous, with smull panicles of y:roenish yellow tls. and wliito drupes l-'J lines in diam. Brazil. J. B. S. Norton. LITTdNIA (Dr. Samuel Litton, professor of botany in Royal Dublin .Society). LUiitce<e. Littonia and Gloriosa are called Climbing Lilies. They are tender, tuberous plants, with glossy, lanceolate Ivs. which curl at the tips into tendrils, enabling the plants to reach G-8 ft. The lis. are G-parted, but in Littonia the seg- ments are not reflesed like a Cyclamen, as in Gloriosa. Fls. nodding, bell-shaped, orange, 1 in. or more across; segments obUmg, acuminate, 1^^ in. long: capsule long, 3-celled; seeds scarlet, about the size of a sweet pea, round, arranged in 2 series. The odd-shaped tubers are about 1% in. across and may 1)0 planted outdoors in i\Iay. There are 4 species, 1 from Arabia, 1 from S. Africa and 2 from tropical Africa. mod6sta, Hook. Lower Ivs. in .3's, upper ones alter- nate: perianth segments provided with a small oblong nectary, partially closed by a ciliated scale on each side: style 3-cut. 4723. Var. Keitli, Hurt., is an improved form, with larger and more abundant Us. John Endicott and "W. M. LIVE - FOREVER. Scdnm TcJepJiiuin and other tSedums. LIVERLEAF. Hcpatica. LIVERWORT. A general name for a group of cryp- togamia (llowerless plants}, somewhat allied t<.i mosses and known as Hepatica?. Conocephalus and i\Iarchantia have been offered by dealers in native plants as suitable for rockwork and gardens. Lunularia is a connnon weed in greenhouses. LIVING ROCK. QoxiswM A)ilialonium. LIVISTONA (Patrick Murray, Baron of Livistone). Palmiicca:. About
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