. 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. 2004 ZAUSCHNERIA ZEA %~2 ft.: Ivs. linear to ovate, ^-\}4 in. long, glabrous, pubescent or tomentose: lis. scarlet or vermilion, the trumpet-shaped calyx IK in. long: calyx-lobes ovate; petals obeordate, spreading: fr. 4-vaIved, imperfectly 4-loculed. B. M. 449H. F. S. 4:404. P. M. 15:195. F. 1847-48:241. Gn. 3
. 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. 2004 ZAUSCHNERIA ZEA %~2 ft.: Ivs. linear to ovate, ^-\}4 in. long, glabrous, pubescent or tomentose: lis. scarlet or vermilion, the trumpet-shaped calyx IK in. long: calyx-lobes ovate; petals obeordate, spreading: fr. 4-vaIved, imperfectly 4-loculed. B. M. 449H. F. S. 4:404. P. M. 15:195. F. 1847-48:241. Gn. 31, p. 29; 31:578. 1849:141. W. M. Z fi A (an old Greek name for some common cere- al, probably spelt). Graniinete. As now limited the genus is founded upon the single polymor- phous cultivated species £!ea Mays, Maize or Indian Co_rn {Figs. 2772, 2773), whose origin is unknown but is suspected by some to be Teosinte {Eh- chltena lnxuvi(nis). Most of the evi- dence points to Mexico as the re- gion in which it originated and from which it spread. Under the head of Corn are given the botanical charac- ters of the genus, a classification of subspecies of Zea Mmj.^, and a dis- cussion of Sweet Corn and Pop Corn. A picture of a stam- inate Hower is given in connection with the article Grass (Fiff. 984, p. 683). Hackel ("The True Grasses ") explains the fructification of Maize as follows: "The pistillate spikes (originallj' by monstrous or teratological devel- opraent?)are grown together into a spongy, continu- ous, club - shaped body (the cob) upon wliich the 4-11 dou- ble rows (each ses- sile upon a low longitudinal eleva- tion that is limited by a long, shallow furrow on each side) correspond to a single spike of Euchliena. Grain developed at the expense of the other parts, projecting beyond the thin bracts, which rarely become coriaceous and inclose ; Fig. 2773. The staminate flowers are in the "; Dent or Field Corn {Z. indentata, of S
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