. 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. MILLA JIILTilXIA lOU MILLA. (J. Milla was bead fjanlener at the Court of Madrid)- LiUAcccr. Bentharu & HooKcr restrict the £;enus Milla (as Cavaiiillos, its author, intended) to one â species, M. bifloni. From Brodifiea the /ireuus differs in the fact that the pedicels are not .ioiuted and the peri- anth s
. 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. MILLA JIILTilXIA lOU MILLA. (J. Milla was bead fjanlener at the Court of Madrid)- LiUAcccr. Bentharu & HooKcr restrict the £;enus Milla (as Cavaiiillos, its author, intended) to one â species, M. bifloni. From Brodifiea the /ireuus differs in the fact that the pedicels are not .ioiuted and the peri- anth segments are always ^f-uerved. I\liUa and Brodii>>a are native to the northern iialf of the western hemi- sphere, lu South America is the genus Triteleia, wliiidi is by sonic referred to Milla, by others to Brodifea, and by still others kept distinct. There is one Triteleia i '/'. Hiiiflora) in common cultivation. In his monograph (Journ Linn. Soc. 11, p. 'MS), Baker refers the Tritc- leias to Milla, and this disposition is followed by Index Kewensis, but in a later account ( III. 20, p. 459) he refers them to BrodifBa. Watson ( Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts. & Sci. 9, p. 2-10) restricts Milla to one species. The North Auuuican plants which have been referred to Triteleia are perhaps best treated as Brodiseas, and they are so considered in the account of that genus in Vol. 1 of this work. The South American Triteleias are described under that genus in Vol. IV. Milla has a salverforni perianth, with 3-nerved seg- ments which are separate nearly to the base, G nearly sesiile stamens in one row, sessile, oblong-obovate capsule. M. blfldra, Cav., has a scape 0-18 in. high from a sniall coated bulb, bearing 1-5 (usually 2) star-like, waxy white, fragrant fls. 2-2'.2 in. across, with oblong-lanceolate segments: Ivs. rough, nearly terete. S. Ariz, and New Mex. to central Mex. 18:1555. t\S. U: Gn. 24, p. MiUa bifloi-a is one of the best of the small bulbs. It
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