. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. OGACANTHUS (Greek for flame, and acanthus).Acau(h(ice(e. Tall half-shrubby herbs with entire orsomewhat toothed lvs.: fls. white, red or greenish inlong terminal or short lateral spikes; calyx 5-parted,segments linear, awnlike, acuminate; corolla-tube long,broad, curved, limb 2-lipp
. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. OGACANTHUS (Greek for flame, and acanthus).Acau(h(ice(e. Tall half-shrubby herbs with entire orsomewhat toothed lvs.: fls. white, red or greenish inlong terminal or short lateral spikes; calyx 5-parted,segments linear, awnlike, acuminate; corolla-tube long,broad, curved, limb 2-lipped, upper liperect, entire or2-lobed; lower lip 3-parted;perfect stamens 2, inserted on the lowerpart of the tube, anthers with 2 parallelcells; ovary many-ovuled; capsule round orobtusely 4-angled. Used like the others of the family as deco-rative pot-plants in the greenhouse. Theyrequire a rather warm, damp atmosphereand a soil rich in humus. Propagated bycuttings or seeds. thyrsifl6rus, Nees. Shrub, 3-7 ft. high:Ivs. 7X 1^, lanceolate, glabrous: fls. orange,in long, dense, villous thryses ; corolla %in. wide, tubular, 2-lipped. India. Cult, inS. Fla. Native to India. No description is available of P. cardmalis,advertised 1893 by Saul, nor of P. Drummondii,recently offered by Childs. Heinrich pratense-Timothy (X %). pratense—Timothy. To show habit of root and top. FHLdMIS (old Greek name used by Dioscorides).Labi(it(p, Jerusalem Sage. About 50 species of herbsand shrubs native to the Mediterranean region withdense axillary whorls of rather large yellow, purple orwhite fls. Perhaps a dozen species have been cult., butthey are rather coarse plants except for wild gardeningand among shrubbery. They are of the easiest genus is placed by Bentham and Hooker next toLeonotis (Lions Ear), which, however, has an exces-sively long upper lip. Phlomis plants are more or lesswoolly, and .some of the species not cult, in America areconspic
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