. 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. 1184. Isoloma Tydaea (X H). ancient Britons used the Woad for staining their bodies, and the word Britain itself comes from an old Celtic word Tneaning painted. Before indigo became common in Europe, the Dyer's Woad prodiiced the chief blue coloring matter for woolen cloth. The introduction of indigo in the sev
. 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. 1184. Isoloma Tydaea (X H). ancient Britons used the Woad for staining their bodies, and the word Britain itself comes from an old Celtic word Tneaning painted. Before indigo became common in Europe, the Dyer's Woad prodiiced the chief blue coloring matter for woolen cloth. The introduction of indigo in the seventeenth century destroyed this ini portant industry, not without opposition. Dioscorides and Pliny mention both the Dyer's Woad and indigo. /. tinctoria, Linn., is rather tall, glabrous and glau- cous: stem-lvs. lanceolate, entire, sessile, somewhat ar- row-shaped: fts. small, yellow, borne in early summer, on panicled racemes. Instead of apod, opening length- wise by valves, it has a closed fruit like on the samara of an ash, 1-celled, 1-seeded. indehiscent, wing-like. It is a biennial, and common in Europe. ISCHARUM. See Biamm. ISM:fiNE. Now referred to Jli/ineitocallis. ISNARDIA. Includes a few species cf Ludtriijia. IS0CHiLUS((;reek,>(7itan;>). Orchi<h\ce<v. A genus of no commercial value. Plants epiphytic, with tall, slender, leafy stems, without pseudobullis, bearing a few small fis. at the summit. Sepals erect, free, keeled ; pet- als similar but plane; labellum like the petals and united with them to the base of the column, somewhat sigmoid below tlie mio in. long: tls. purple, borne in a short, terminal spike. March. Growing on rocks and trees in thick woods, Jamaica, Trinidad, Brazil, etc. 9:745. 14:1341. H. Hasselbeing. IS6LEPIS. See Scirpiis. ISOLOMA {equal border). Gesner- acew. Includes Tydft>a. Sixty or more tropical American plants, very closelv allied to Gesneria and Achiraenes. Prom Gesneria distinguished by ab- sence of well-formed
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