. 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. on either side. India, China and the PhilP°^*- L. M. Underwood. DIPLOTHfiMIUM (Greek, double sheathed). Pal-m&ceie, tribe Cocoinew. Spineless palms, low or , or often with ringed, stout, solitary or Lvs. terminal, pinnatisect; segments crowded,lanceolate or ensiform, acuminate, glaucous or sil
. 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. on either side. India, China and the PhilP°^*- L. M. Underwood. DIPLOTHfiMIUM (Greek, double sheathed). Pal-m&ceie, tribe Cocoinew. Spineless palms, low or , or often with ringed, stout, solitary or Lvs. terminal, pinnatisect; segments crowded,lanceolate or ensiform, acuminate, glaucous or silverybeneath, margins recurved at the base, midnerve promi-nent : rachis 2-faced, strongly laterally compressed ;petiole concave above: sheath fibrous, open: spadiceserect, long or short-peduncled, strict, thickish: spathes2, the lower coriaceous, the upper cymbiform, beaked, dehiscent: bracts short, coriaceous: fls. ratherlarge, cream colored or vellow: fr. ovoid or oboroid,small. Species 5. Brazil. Diplothemium is a small genus of very handsomepalms. In size the members of this genus seem to varyas much as those included in the Cocos group. D. maritl-. 719. Fullers Teasel—Dipsacus perennial herbs of the Old World. The fls. are smalland in dense heads, like those of compositous plants,but the anthers are njt Qnited (or syngenesious) as theyare in the Compositfp. One species, D. , is an introduced weed along roadsides in thenortheastern states and Ohio valley. It is biennial,the stem arising the second year and reaching a heightof 5 or 6 ft. It is said to be a good bee plant. The FullersTeasel, i). Fullonum. Linn. (Fig. 719), is probably de-rived from the former, and differs from it chiefly in thevery strong and hooked floral .scales. These scales givethe head its value for the teasing or raising the nap onwoolen cloth, for which no machinery is so elBcient. Thisplant is grown commercially in a limited area in centralNew York. l. h. B. 492 DIRCA DtE
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