. 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. 2278. Scirpus cernuus (X xs). Known to gardeners as Isolepis gracilis. which are sessile and contain only 2 or 3 fls., all of which are ligulate. The heads are sessile, terminal and axil- lary. Scolymus contains i species, all natives of the Medi- terranean region. S. granditlorus, a perennial species, is rarel
. 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. 2278. Scirpus cernuus (X xs). Known to gardeners as Isolepis gracilis. which are sessile and contain only 2 or 3 fls., all of which are ligulate. The heads are sessile, terminal and axil- lary. Scolymus contains i species, all natives of the Medi- terranean region. S. granditlorus, a perennial species, is rarely cult, abroad for its fls., and S. maculatus, an annual species, for its variegated foliage, i^ jj_ b_ SCORPION GRASS. See Myosotis. SCORPItTRUS. See Caterpillars and Worms. SCOEZONfeRA (old French scorzon, serpent; S. Bis- panica was usetl against snake-bites). C'omp6sUw, The vegetable known as Scorzonera or Black Salsify is a plant with a long, fleshy tap-root like that of salsify, but differing in having a black skin. The flesh, how- ever, is white. It is cultivated and cooked like salsify, but being somewhat more difficiilt to raise it is rarer than that vegetable, although considered by many to be superior to it in fla- vor. The leaves may be used for salads. Scor- zonera is a perennial plant, but it is treated in cultivation as an an- nual or biennial crop. Botanically, also, Scorzonei'a is closely allied to salsify. The two vegetables are eas- ily distinguished in root, leaf, flower and seed. The Ivs. of Scor- zonera are broader, the fls. are yellow (those of salsify being vio- let), and the seeds are white. Also, the in- volucral bracts of Scor- zonera are in many series; of salsify, in 1 series. The genus Scorzonera is a large one —over 100 species, all natives of the Old World. Perennial herbs, or rarely an- nual, floccose, lanate or hirsute: Ivs. some- times entire and grass- like, or wider, some- times more or less pinnately lobed or dis- sected: heads long- pedu
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