. 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. 1664 SHOO-FLY PLANT SHRUBBEKY SHOO-FLY PLANT. A name proposed by one seeds- man for Physalis. SHOOTING STAK. See Dodecatheon. SHOKE-GKAPE. See Coccoloba. SH6RTIA (named for Dr. Charles W. Short, a botanist of Kentucky). Via pens iucea'. Of the little family Diapensiacefe, with its 6 genera and 8 spe- cies, Shor
. 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. 1664 SHOO-FLY PLANT SHRUBBEKY SHOO-FLY PLANT. A name proposed by one seeds- man for Physalis. SHOOTING STAK. See Dodecatheon. SHOKE-GKAPE. See Coccoloba. SH6RTIA (named for Dr. Charles W. Short, a botanist of Kentucky). Via pens iucea'. Of the little family Diapensiacefe, with its 6 genera and 8 spe- cies, Shorfia gaUicifolia is historically the most inter- esting. Michaux collected the plant in 1788 in the high mountains of Carolina, but as his specimen was in fruit rather than in flower, Richard, the author of Michaux's "Flora Boreali-Araericana," did not describe it. Asa Gray examined Michaux's specimen, preserved in Paris, in 1839, and afterwards founded the genus Shortia on it. Great search was made tor the plant in the moun- tains of Carolina, but it was not rediscovered until 1877. The history of the efforts to find the plant is one of the most interesting chapters in American botany. For his-. 23^2. Every part oi ihe place is equally accented. torical sketch, see Sargent, "Garden and Forest," vol. 1, p. 50G (1888). Tori'ey & Gray founded the genus Shortia in 1842. In 1843 Siebold & Zuccarini founded the genus Schizocodon, from Japan. To this genus Maximowicz added a second Japanese species, S. uniflorns; the flowers of this plant, as of Shortia, were unknown when the plant was first recognized. It transpires, however, that Schizocodon uniflorns is really a Shortia, thus adding another in- stance to the growing list of bitypic genera that are endemic to Japan and eastern North America. Shortia includes two acaulescent herbs, with the habit of Galax, with creeping rootstocks and evergreen ronnd- cordate Ivs.: fl. solitary on a slender leafless scape,
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