. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. 1763. Phlox subulata, or Moss Pink. fibrous : spadices usually many, erect or nodding infruit, or pendent : peduncle strongly compressed:branches usually somewhat umbellate: spathe basilar,entire, long, compressed, 2-edged, coriaceous, ventrally. The old Date Palms (Phcenix dactylif
. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. 1763. Phlox subulata, or Moss Pink. fibrous : spadices usually many, erect or nodding infruit, or pendent : peduncle strongly compressed:branches usually somewhat umbellate: spathe basilar,entire, long, compressed, 2-edged, coriaceous, ventrally. The old Date Palms (Phcenix dactyliferai at Old Town, San Diego, California PHCENIX and at length dorsally divided ; l>racts usually obso-lete: as. yellow: fr. a berry or drupe, oblong, orange,brown or black Speeies 10 to 12, perhaps more. Tropi-cal and subtropical Asia and Africa. Jared G. Smith. PhiriiU ill GeiwraI.—[he latest botanical monographof Phoenix (by Beccari in Malesia 3:345) admits only 10species, although there are about tiO names. Such alumping of species is very unwelcome to the horticulturist, and it is probable that nearly all the synonjmscited below represent forms that are abundantly distinct for horticultural purposes. A good horticultural appreciation of Phoe-nix is that by William Watson, of Kew, III. 9:234, 298, from which liberal ex-tracts are made below. Phoenixes differ fromall other pinnate-leaved palms in having theIvs. folded upwards and lengthwise, and inthe peculiar form of the seed, as seen in theDate stone. The plants are either male orfem
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