. 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 . often scents a whole greenhouse. j^ TayLOR. BARRINGTONIA (Daines Barrington, Englishnaturalist and an
. 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 . often scents a whole greenhouse. j^ TayLOR. BARRINGTONIA (Daines Barrington, Englishnaturalist and antiquary, died 1800). IncludingHtravidium. Myrtacex; placed in Lecythiddcex by thosewho keep this group as adistinct family. Evergreenbroad-leaved trees, some ofwhich are planted in thetropics for the striking foliageand flowers. Leaves mostly large andcrowded at the ends of thebranches, entire or somewhatcrenate: fls. large in the cult,species and striking becauseof the numerous long andprotruding stamens whichare united in a ring; calyx-tube ovoid or turbinate,lobed; petals 4 or 5; ovaryinferior, 2-4-celled: fr. afibrous berry-like or box-likestructure, crowned by thec;ilyx-limb, 1-seeded by abor-tion of other ovules.—About30 species in tropical partsof Asia, Afr., and Polynesia,be;iring the white or reddishfls. in spikes or racemes. specidsa, Forst (Figs. 473,474), is apparently most planted in parts of the Ameri- 473. Barringtonia tropics: tree wide-spread- (X H). BARRINGTONIA BASKET PLANTS 455 ing, large-boled, to 50 ft. in height: Ivs. entire, obo-vate, sessile, shining, 12-15 in. long: fls. few in theraceme, large and showy, petals white and stamenstinted purple, the style long and prominent: (ahiiost square in cross-section at the mid-dle or below), 3 in. at base, box-like in looks,with a single large seedand crowned by and gtyle. India,near the sea. l H. B. BARTONIA of Sims isMoitzclia; this is in of Muhlenberg
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