. The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists . !. Ill, 28:263. CO. 1. 28:747. Limminghei, Lindl. & Reichb. Fls. 4-7, 1J4-2 ; sepals and pet
. The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists . !. Ill, 28:263. CO. 1. 28:747. Limminghei, Lindl. & Reichb. Fls. 4-7, 1J4-2 ; sepals and petals white, with an apical blotchof |)urple; lip with lateral lobes yellow, marked withreddish purple on the inside, the middle lobe white,streaked with bright purple. Mex. .■)265. :210. CO. 3. Sedenii, Hort. Fls. 3-6; sepals white; petals whitewith an a[iical rose-purple blotch; Up with the side. Chysis bractescens. (.XH) lobes suIfur-yeUow, purple-streaked within, the middlelobe white, streaked with amethyst. Hybrid: x C. bractescens. George V. CIBOTIDM (Greek, a little seed-vessel). small group of tree-ferns from Mexico and Polynesia,with bivalved coriaceous indusia, dif-fering from Dickson ia in having theouter valve entirely distinct fromthe leaf. For culture, see Barometz is the plant that gaverise to the wonder stories of theBarometz or Scythian lamb (), which, according to Bauhin,, had wool, flesh and blood, anda root attached to the navel. Theplant was said to resemble a lamb inevery respect, but grew on a stalkabout a yard high, and turning aboutand bending to the herbage con-sumed the foliage within reach, andthen pined away with the failure ofthe food until it died. In 1725 Breyne,of Dantzig, declared that the Baro-metz was only the root of a largefern, covered with its natural yellowdown and accompanied by
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