. 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. MILLA MILTONIA 1015 MILLA (J. Milla was head gardener at the Court of Madrid). Lilideew. Bentham & Hooker restrict the genus Milla (as Cavanilles, its author, intended) to one species, J/, biflora. From Brodisea the genus differs in the fact that the pedicels are not jointed and the peri- anth segments are
. 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. MILLA MILTONIA 1015 MILLA (J. Milla was head gardener at the Court of Madrid). Lilideew. Bentham & Hooker restrict the genus Milla (as Cavanilles, its author, intended) to one species, J/, biflora. From Brodisea the genus differs in the fact that the pedicels are not jointed and the peri- anth segments are always 3-nerved. Milla and Brodicea are native to the northern half of the western hemi- sphere. In South America is the genus Triteleia, which is by some referred to Milla, by others to Brodiwa, and by still others kept distinct. There is one Triteleia (T. ii'iiiflora) in common cultivation. In his monograph (Journ. Linn. Soo. 11, p. 378), Baker refers the Trite- leias to Milla, and this disposition is followed by Index Kewensis, but in a later account ( III. 20, p. 459' he refers theui to Brodiffia. Watson (Proo. Amer. Acad. Arts. & Sci. 9, p. 240) restricts Milla to one species. The North American plants which have been referred to Triteleia are best treated as BrodiEeas, and they are so considered in the account of that genus in Vol. I of this work. The South American Triteleias are described under that genus in Vol. IV. Milla has a salverform perianth, with 3-nerved seg- ments which are separate nearly to the base, 6 nearly ses5ile stamens in one row, sessile, oblong-obovate capsule. M. hiSlora, Cav., has a scape 6-18 in. high from a small coated bulb, bearing 1-5 (usually 2) star-like, waxy white, fragrant fls. 2-2K in. across, with obloug-Ianceolate segments: Ivs. rough, nearly terete. S. Ariz, and" New Mex. to central Mex. 18:1555. 14:1459. Gn. 24, p. 155. MiUa biflora is one of the best of the small bulbs. It known as Mexican Star, Mexic
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