. The bulb book; or, Bulbous and tuberous plants for the open air, stove, and greenhouse, containing particulars as to descriptions, culture, propagation, etc., of plants from all parts of the world having bulbs, corms, tubers, or rhizomes (orchids excluded). Bulbs (Plants). BOUSSINGAULTIA THE BULB BOOK BOUSSINGAULTIA B. Rauwolfl (or Leontice cdtaica, or L. chrysogonnm, as it used to be called), is a pretty little tuberous - rooted perennial about 6 ins. high, having pinnately cut, glaucous leaves, with thickish segments again twice or thrice divided or toothed, and having a purple blotch at t
. The bulb book; or, Bulbous and tuberous plants for the open air, stove, and greenhouse, containing particulars as to descriptions, culture, propagation, etc., of plants from all parts of the world having bulbs, corms, tubers, or rhizomes (orchids excluded). Bulbs (Plants). BOUSSINGAULTIA THE BULB BOOK BOUSSINGAULTIA B. Rauwolfl (or Leontice cdtaica, or L. chrysogonnm, as it used to be called), is a pretty little tuberous - rooted perennial about 6 ins. high, having pinnately cut, glaucous leaves, with thickish segments again twice or thrice divided or toothed, and having a purple blotch at the base of each leaflet. The golden-yellow flowers appear in May on branched pyramidal panicles, each blossom being about 1 in. across, and drooping from a slender stalklet or pedicel. Sepals three to six, petaloid. Petals six, almost similar. Stamens six, free. It is a native of Syria and Persia, where it is used as a pot herb. {Bot. Mac/, t. 6244.) This plant flourishes in light sandy soil with a little peat or leaf-mould in warm, open positions in the rock- garden or border. In winter the plants should be protected from cold, heavy rains by a flower-pot, bell-glass, etc., otherwise the tuberous root- stocks are apt to perish. The plants may be increased by seeds sown in cold frames when ripe, or by ofisets in spring, or in early autumn and wintered in a cold frame. BOUSSINGAULTIA (after a cele- brated French chemist, BoussiTigatdt). Nat. Ord. Chenopodiacese.—A small and little-known genus belonging to the Beetroot and Spinach family, containing about ten species of herb- aceous plants having fleshy rhizomes emitting climbing stems furnished with smooth, thickish leaves, and having the small flowers in branching sprays. The best-known species is— B. toaselloldes. — A native of S. America. It is a quick-growing plan t with reddish twining stems, on which arise tubercules (Fig. 74). The wavy leaves are heart-shaped, fleshy, and shining green, and the small, white, sweet -
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