. 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. 718 HEDYSARUM HELENIUM with red, fragrant fls., crowded in axillary spilies or racemes: Ivs. witli 3-7 pairs of elliptic or roundish, somewhat pubescent Ifts. Eu. Var. S,lbum, Hort., has white fls. AA. Fls. normally purple {varying to white). multijtiguin, Maxim, Hardy perennial of angular, straggling growth, 2
. 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. 718 HEDYSARUM HELENIUM with red, fragrant fls., crowded in axillary spilies or racemes: Ivs. witli 3-7 pairs of elliptic or roundish, somewhat pubescent Ifts. Eu. Var. S,lbum, Hort., has white fls. AA. Fls. normally purple {varying to white). multijtiguin, Maxim, Hardy perennial of angular, straggling growth, 2-5 ft. high, very showy, and worthy of general cult. Fls. violet or pmplish magenta, with yellow blotches, in racemes 8-18 in. long, all summer: Ivs. 4-6 in. long, containing 6-12 pairs of grayish green oval, small Ifts. Mongolia. Gn. 53:1170. III. 18:8, 9. —Of recent introduction. Very fine for rockwork. boreale, Nutt. {II. AmericAnum, Britt.). Erect or half-decumbent herb, simply or nearly so, 1-3 ft.: Ifts. 5-10 pairs, glabrous, oblong or oblanceolate: fis. violet- purple, varying to white, the calyx teeth ovate-acute and shorter than the tube. Labrador and northern N. Eng- land across the continent. Mack^nzii, Richards. Much like the last, but some- what pubescent: fls. larger, calyx teeth awl-like and acuminate, and longer than the tube. Colo. N. and W. L. H. B. HEDYSCfiPE (Greek, sweet covering). Palmdcece. Umbrella Palm. This includes one of the many palms known to the trade as a Kentia, and resembles that genus in habit and foliage, but is distinct in flower. In Kentia the fls. are arranged in 4 ranks, and the ovule is fastened at the bottom of the cell, while in Hedyscepe (and its cultivated allies, Kentiopsis, Veitchia, Nenga, Archontophoenix, Rhopalostylis and Dictyosperma) the fls. are spirally arranged in the branches of the spadix, and the ovule is fastened at the side. From the allies above mentioned Hedyscepe is distinguished by the following characters :
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