. 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. HTPH^NE HYSSOP 793 bloom which soon vanishes, plicate, scabrous on the margins and nerves above; petiole sheathed for 1 or 2 in., deeply channeled above, rough on the margins: fruits obovate, 2K in. long, smooth. S. Africa. Cult, outdoors in S. Fla. Jabed G. Smith and E. N. Reasonek. HYPOCKITE PLANT. Huphorbia
. 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. HTPH^NE HYSSOP 793 bloom which soon vanishes, plicate, scabrous on the margins and nerves above; petiole sheathed for 1 or 2 in., deeply channeled above, rough on the margins: fruits obovate, 2K in. long, smooth. S. Africa. Cult, outdoors in S. Fla. Jabed G. Smith and E. N. Reasonek. HYPOCKITE PLANT. Huphorbia lieterophylla. HYP6LEPIS (Greek, a scale underneaili). Polypo- didcece. A genus of ferns with marginal sori, placed in the sinuses of the leaf, covered with the membranous leaf margin. Tropical ferns of both hemispheres rarely cultivated. Ten or more species are known. repens, Presl. Stalks straw-colored, more or less prickly: Ivs. 3-4 ft. long, quadripinuatifid; lower pinn^ 1-2 ft. long, 6-12 in. wide, ovate acuminate: sori 2-6 to a segment. West Indies to Brazil. Hypolepis repens is a rather coarse fern, of easy cul- ture, with the general appearance of a Cyathea. Like all strong-growing ferns, it requires a large percentage of loam. It likes shade and moisture at all times, and is readily propagated by spores, which it produces in great quantity. It often sows itself, and requires a stove or intermediate temperature. S. Californica. See Cheilantkes Callfornica. L. M. Underwood. EYF6XIS (old Greek name, of no application to these plants). AmaryUiddce(e. Star-Grass. About 50 spe- cies of little herbs of temperate and tropical regions, with linear leaves, hard rootstalks or corms, perianth adnate to the ovary, and anthers not versatile. They are scarcely known in cultivation, although the common species of the northern states, H. erfecta, Linn. {M. hirsiiia, Coville), Fig. 1119, is offered by dealers in na- tive plants. The Ivs. are radical, hairy, grass-like; fls. 1-6, small,
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