. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. LINARIA 927 long. AA. Plant erect or nearly .s B. Flowers yellow. vulgiris,Mill. Toad-Flax. Butteeand-Egos. Fig. 1296. Vigorous perennial, .spreading freely by under- ground steins and in time forming large an
. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. LINARIA 927 long. AA. Plant erect or nearly .s B. Flowers yellow. vulgiris,Mill. Toad-Flax. Butteeand-Egos. Fig. 1296. Vigorous perennial, .spreading freely by under- ground steins and in time forming large and persistent patches: stems strict, nearly or quite simple, slightly glaucous, 1-3 ft. high : Ivs. many, scattered, linear, somewhat narrowed below: fls. in a terminal spicate raceme, erect-spreading, with hanging nectary spur, sulfur-yellow, but orange on the bearded palate. Eu. 13: 469.—Extensively naturalized, and commonly regarded as a bad weed; but it infests chiefly waste places, and although difficult to eradicate it does not spread very rapidly. Now and then it appears as an ornamental plant. It is more interesting to the general plant-lover than to the gardener. A double-fld. form is figured in III. 18:5,')4. The Peloria forms may have 5 spurs, or no spurs at all ( 1851: 433). Maced6iiica, Griseb. Robust perennial, 2-3 ft. high, branching; Ivs. narrow-ovate or the upper ones lanceolate, somewhat cordate at the base, nearly or quite sessile, entire; fls. bright yellow, with deeper color on the palate, in long wand-like terminal racemes. Mace- nf botany). Borragin- (iced . Two s(i.'.-i,-s nf hardy herbaceous per- ennials fruni the Himalayas, one of which is cult. It grows 1-1).2 ft. high, and in Juni* and .July bears racemes of drooping, odd- colored fls. about three-fourths of an inch long, with a ]»ale blue tube and 5 deep rose <jr jnirplish lol)es. The racemes are about 6 in. long, and have 8-12 fls. The plant is likely to be winter-killed
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