. 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. D DABCECIA (after its Irish name St. Dabeoc's Heath). More commonly spelled Daboecia. iiYn.,Boretta, EricA- cere. Low evergreen shrub nvith alternate entire Ivs. and drooping pedicelled tls. in long terminal racemes: corolla ovoid, contracted at the mouth and shortly 4-lobed, with recurved lobes ; stamens 8, in
. 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. D DABCECIA (after its Irish name St. Dabeoc's Heath). More commonly spelled Daboecia. iiYn.,Boretta, EricA- cere. Low evergreen shrub nvith alternate entire Ivs. and drooping pedicelled tls. in long terminal racemes: corolla ovoid, contracted at the mouth and shortly 4-lobed, with recurved lobes ; stamens 8, included ; capsule 4-ceIIed, dehiscent. One species in western Europe. Very pretty heath-like shrub, with purple or white fls. in ele- gant "loose rafr-mr-s, wfll .vlnpfrd fnr rockeries or bor- ders of t.'V>'VL'V''r]] slirntilHi-irs, lv('i|niri's protection north duriim- t],r , ainl In^t in a peaty, sandy soil. rrop. liv ^ iii hki- those of Erica, and by cuttinys ui liall-riiH-inal wmal uudt-i- glass. (P. C',,â :,;,. Koch. Memiesia poU- fdUa,Juss.}. Irish Heath. To J ft.: branchlets glandu- lar pubescent: Ivs. elliinic. the uppermost narrower, revolute at the m:iryiu, whitish tomentose beneath, shining and dark green above, ii-li in. long: racemes many-fid.: corolla J^-K in. long, purple in the type. June-Oct. Ireland, W. France, N. Spain. Gn. 52:1142. Gt. 47:1450. L. B. C. 20:1907. S. B. F. G. 2: 276. There are many varieties, as dlba, with white fls.; white and purple striped fls.; rdsea, with pink ds.; gran- difldra, with larger purple fls. Alfred Eehder. DACTYLIS (Greek, finger, from the size of the spikes). Gramlnea. Cock's-Foot. A perennial tufted grass with flat-keeled or folded leaf-blades, and narrow panicles which expand when in flower: spikelets several-flowered, much flattened, sessile, and densely crowded in thick one-sided clusters. A single species in Eu., Asia and N. Africa, also naturalized in Aus
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