. 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. HERACLEUM HERBARIUM 731 AA. Plant biennial. Sibiricum, Linn. Lvs. scabrous to hirsute, pinnate or deeply piunatifld; segments lobed or palmately parted, serrate: petals about equal: fr. subrotund-oval, deeply notched at the apex. Eu., N. Asia.— Keller says this bears yellowish green fls. in July and Aug. "
. 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. HERACLEUM HERBARIUM 731 AA. Plant biennial. Sibiricum, Linn. Lvs. scabrous to hirsute, pinnate or deeply piunatifld; segments lobed or palmately parted, serrate: petals about equal: fr. subrotund-oval, deeply notched at the apex. Eu., N. Asia.— Keller says this bears yellowish green fls. in July and Aug. "W. M. HEKBA mPIA of the old herbalists is Fiknjo Germanica. HEEBALS. Books on plants, published from the fourteenth to the middle of the eighteenth century, were largely written from the medicinal point of view, and were often called Herbals. The scientitic point of view of plant-knowledge is conveniently dated from 1753,when Linnteus published his "Species ; Of the her- balists, John Gerarde is probably read most at the present time. His style Is chatty, quaint and personal. One of the notions accepted by the early herbalists was that of the vegetable lamb, which is pictured in this work under Clhotium (Fig. 470). Another idea that fasci- nated these worthy plant-lovers was that of the barnacle goose tree. Pig. 1040 is reproduced from a book by Duret, 1605, and shows how the fruits that fall upon dry land become "flying birds," while those that fall into the water become "swimming ; Other conceptions of this goose tree are reproduced in the Gardeners' Magazine 35:749 (1892). Almost every large li- brary possesses a few Herbals, as Matthiolus, Bauhin, L'Obel and Fuchsius. The largest collec- tion of Herbals in America is the one given by the late E. Lewis Sturtevant to the Missouri Botanical Garden at St. Louis. HERBARIIJM. A collection of dried plants systematically named and arranged. Every hor- ticulturist who takes delight in
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