Meehans' monthly : a magazine of horticulture, botany and kindred subjects . he cause. Rooting out Rare Wild Flowers.—Par-ties who go to well-known localities for rareplants, to root out specimens, write to thepapers that some vandal had been there androoted them all out in advance of their ownvisits. 1899] MEEHANS MONTHLY—WILD FLOWERS AND NATURE. 69 Zamia INTEGRIFOLIA.—Cootitic, OX Floridaarrow roof. The Zamia seems to be a sur-vival of the old order of vegetation, ofwhich we now find representatives in a fossilstate. As connecting the present with thepast, these plants are especially interes
Meehans' monthly : a magazine of horticulture, botany and kindred subjects . he cause. Rooting out Rare Wild Flowers.—Par-ties who go to well-known localities for rareplants, to root out specimens, write to thepapers that some vandal had been there androoted them all out in advance of their ownvisits. 1899] MEEHANS MONTHLY—WILD FLOWERS AND NATURE. 69 Zamia INTEGRIFOLIA.—Cootitic, OX Floridaarrow roof. The Zamia seems to be a sur-vival of the old order of vegetation, ofwhich we now find representatives in a fossilstate. As connecting the present with thepast, these plants are especially order of cjcads to which tliej^ belong hadmany species, and their remains in a fossil con-dition are found over the greater part of North good botanists have never seen the wholeplant. The sexes are on separate plants. Thisappears to be male, but we have no directknowledge of the fact. It is occasionally known as Tuckahoe, thoughthis name properly belongs to quite anotherthing. Its most usual designation is Coon-tie, the name applied to it by the Wk \ \ ^^w ^ $t ? f • ^ ZAMIA INTEGRIFOLIA.—Coontie ot the Indians. America. To-day this is the only representa-tive in the United States, and indeed there arebut 9 genera and 45 good species found overthe whole earth. Our specimen is illustratedfrom a photo, kindly sent by Anderson andPrice, Ormond, Florida, and is fastened to astake in order to show the whole root the trunk or root is almost wholly under-ground, and the plant difficult to get at, man} The pith furnishes a fine form of arrow root,—the White meal of the Indians, on which,it is said thej almost wholly subsisted duringthe Seminole war. It is only found in lower portions of Florida. Zamia proper is now confined chiefly to theNew World. The African forms, formerly in-cluded in the genus, are now removed toEncephalartos. 70 MEEHAXS MOXTHLV—WILD FLOWERS AXP XATURE. [May Lindens .vnd Hoxev Bees.—Mrs. Wilhel-niine Seligrer says
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