. 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. 256 CASSABANANA CASTANEA CASSABANANA. See Sicana. CABSANDBA, See Chamcedaphne. CASSAVA, Consult Manihot utillissima. CASSEBEfiRA (from a German botanist). Polypo- didcece. A small genus of small Brazilian ferns allied to the maidenhair, but rarely seen in cultivation. CASSIA (ancient Greek name). Leguminbsce. S
. 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. 256 CASSABANANA CASTANEA CASSABANANA. See Sicana. CABSANDBA, See Chamcedaphne. CASSAVA, Consult Manihot utillissima. CASSEBEfiRA (from a German botanist). Polypo- didcece. A small genus of small Brazilian ferns allied to the maidenhair, but rarely seen in cultivation. CASSIA (ancient Greek name). Leguminbsce. Senna. Several hundred herbs, shrubs or trees in many parts ot the world, of which a very few are in cult, in Amer., mostly as border plants. Lvs. even-pinnate: fls. nearly regular (not papilionaceous), with the nearly equal calyx-teeth mostly longer than the tube ; corolla of 5 spreading, nearly equal clawed petals; stamens 5 or 10, frequently unequal, and some of the anthers abortive : fr. a stalked pod which is either ilat or terete, contain- ing numerous seeds. The Cassias delight in a sunny exposure. Most of those which are cultivated here are herbs or herb-like shrubs, attractive for the finely cut foliage and the showy fls. Some of them are cultivated only in the extreme south. Prop, mostly by divisions and seeds,—the annual species always by seeds. Senna leaves, used in medicine as a cathartic, are de- rived from various species, chiefly from C, acutifoUa of Egypt, and C. angustitolia of India and other Old World tropics. The "Cassia lignea" of drug stores is made from a Cinnamomum. A. Rardy border plants: leaflets 6 or more pairs. Marylfindica, Linn. Wild Senna. Perennial, glabrous or nearly so, stems nearly simple ; Ifts. 6-10 pairs, ob- long or lance-oblong and entire, short-acuminate or nearly obtuse: fls. in axillary racemes near the tops of the stems and often appearing as if panicled, bright yellow, wide open. New Eng. to Mich, and south, mostly in wet
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