The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . elacece,with hermaphrodite flowers, the perianthcoloured, somewhat bell-shaped and ob-lique ; the stamens eight, inserted in tworows in the tube of the perianth; the ovaryone-celled, with a single pendulous fruit is drupaceous. There is onesnecies, D. palustris, a North Americanshrub called Leather-wood, Moose-wood,and Wicopy; the twigs are used as thongs;fruit poisonous ; leaves alternate entire;flowers pale yellow. [J. H. B.] DIRCJEA. A genus of Gesnerac
The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . elacece,with hermaphrodite flowers, the perianthcoloured, somewhat bell-shaped and ob-lique ; the stamens eight, inserted in tworows in the tube of the perianth; the ovaryone-celled, with a single pendulous fruit is drupaceous. There is onesnecies, D. palustris, a North Americanshrub called Leather-wood, Moose-wood,and Wicopy; the twigs are used as thongs;fruit poisonous ; leaves alternate entire;flowers pale yellow. [J. H. B.] DIRCJEA. A genus of Gesneracece, con-sisting of Brazilian herbs with tuberousrhizomes, and herbaceous stems bearinglarge opposite leaves, and long-tubedshowy panicled flowers, often of a richscarlet colour. The group is typified bythe species formerly known as GesnerafoudaUs, bulbosa, &c, and is distinguishedbv the great development of the upper lipof the corolla. [] DIS. An Algerian name for the fibrousstems of Festuca patula and Arundo tenax,which are used for cordage. DISA. A numerous genus of terrestrialorchids peculiar to South Africa and. Disa grandiflora. Abyssinia. The species vary much inhabit, but most agree in having the sepals usually much larger than the petals, andthe posterior sepal instead of the labellum,I as in Habenaria and other allied genera,I is furnished with a more or less evidentj hood-like spur. D. grandiflora is perhapsI the most beautiful of all terrestrial or-: chids, and is spoken of by Dr. Harvey as] the pride of Table Mountain, where itl grows in great profusion on the borders ofstreams and water pools which are dry insummer, producing its gorgeous flowersI in February and March. The stems growI two and a half feet high, and are furnished| with a number of broad grassy leaves, andj terminated by from one to four splendidI flowers, measuring from three to fiveinches across. The lateral sepals are of a? bright crimson, the dorsal one paler on! the outside, and blush-colou
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