. 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. 498 DODECATHEON DODECATHEON after flowering and do not appear again until the next spring. Shooting Stars are said to be easily forced. The best varieties at present are obtained from Europe. The j2:enus Dodecatheon is much confused : that is, it is differently understood by different authors. In the Synoptical
. 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. 498 DODECATHEON DODECATHEON after flowering and do not appear again until the next spring. Shooting Stars are said to be easily forced. The best varieties at present are obtained from Europe. The j2:enus Dodecatheon is much confused : that is, it is differently understood by different authors. In the Synoptical Flora, 1878, Gray accepted but one spe- cies, D, Meadia, and referred all the known forms to. 730. Shooting: StarâDodecatheon pauciflorum (XM). six varieties of it. Later (Botanical Gazette 11:231) he revised his view of the genus, and recognized five spe- cies. A synopsis of this latter view is here given, and it is followed by a conspectus of the latest view of the genus by Professor Greene. Various garden names are not accounted for in either sketch, nor is it possible to refer them to their proper places without studying the plants themselves; and these forms are Old World pro- ductions, and are not known to be in the American trade. A. Anthers on evident filaments, the latter being in- serted at the very orifice of the short corolla-tube and distinctly monadelphous: Ivs. with tapering base. B. Capsule acute, opening at the apex by valves. Mdadia, Linn. CosnioN or Eastern Shooting Star. Roots iibrous : Ivs. 3-9 in. long, crowded on a thickish crown, spatiilate oblong or oblanceolate, entire or nearly so, sometimes repand obtuse, below tapering into more or less of a margined petiole: scape 9-2-1 in. high: fls. few to many in an umbel. Penna. south and west.âU. integrifolium, Michx. ( 3622) is regarded by Gray as probably synonymous, but in European horticulture it seems to be loosely used to distinguish an entire-lvd. from a dentate form. BB. Capsule obtuse, opening
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