. 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. ASPHODELINE BB. Fls. yellow : raceme lax. c. Bracts large, 6-12 lines long, long-cuspidate. tenMor, Ledeb. Height 1 ft. Caucasus, Armen., N. Persia. 262G.—Smaller tban A. liiteus, with finer Ivs. and smaller, fewer and paler fls. Especially dis- tinguished by the stalk being naked at the upper part, below
. 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. ASPHODELINE BB. Fls. yellow : raceme lax. c. Bracts large, 6-12 lines long, long-cuspidate. tenMor, Ledeb. Height 1 ft. Caucasus, Armen., N. Persia. 262G.—Smaller tban A. liiteus, with finer Ivs. and smaller, fewer and paler fls. Especially dis- tinguished by the stalk being naked at the upper part, below the raceme of fls., and the bracts as short as or shorter than the peduncle, cc. Bracts small, 114-S lines long, short-cuspidate. Liburnica, Reichb. {A. CrMica, Vis., not Boiss.). Height 1-2 ft. Greece, Crete, Dalmatia, Austria, Italy, not Asia Minor. 10: 915 as A. Cretica. brevicatiUB, J. Gay (A. Cretica, Boiss., not Vis.). St. often flexuose, that of all the others here described being erect and strict. Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, Egypt. AAA. Stems leafy only at the base : fls. white: racemes dense. B. Racemes usually simple. C. Stems having leaf-scales : height 8 ft. imperiaiis, Siehe. Tallest species of the genus : fls. large, reddish white. Cappadocia. III. 22: 397. cc. Stems not having leaf-scales : height 114-S ft. Damascfina, Baker. Height VA-2 ft.: bracts membra- naceous, lanceolate, the lowest 9-12 lines long. Mt. Lebanon. Bal4ns8B, J. Gay. Height 2 ft.: bracts scarious, 6-9 Uneslong. Cilicia. Gt. 46, p. 521. III. 23: 111. BU. Sacemes much panicled. iathmocirpa, Gay. Height 2 ft. Cilicia. III. 23:117. W M ASPH6DELTIS (Greekname of unknc &cea. Hardy herbaceous stemless pi lily-like flowers in long racemes fltshj fascicled root and firm, ,tufted le ii e Perianth funnel-shaped ; segments i oblong-ligulate, obtuse, equil with distinct nerve on the back, and alwi\ ascending. The Asphodel of the an x^/ /1 cients, or King's Spear,
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