. 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. to nurserymen asAndromedas. The prevailing tendencies among botan-ists to-day distribute these species in many differentgenera, leaving only A. polifolia in Andromeda asstrictly defined. Andromeda arborea is made a niono-typic genus called Oxydendrum, based on the followingcharacter
. 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. to nurserymen asAndromedas. The prevailing tendencies among botan-ists to-day distribute these species in many differentgenera, leaving only A. polifolia in Andromeda asstrictly defined. Andromeda arborea is made a niono-typic genus called Oxydendrum, based on the followingcharacters: calyx cut into 5 separate sepals which over-lap more or less in the young buds: corolla ovoid-cylin-drical, crowned with 5 short teeth: anthers long, linear,blunt on the back, opening by long chinks down thefront: capsule woody; seeds numerous, needle-shaped. arbdreum, DC. {Andrdmeda arbdrea, Linn.) SouB-WOOD. Sorrel-tree. Fig. 1604. Smooth-barked treeattaining a maximum height of 60 ft., with trunk 15 : lvs. deciduous, membranous, oblong or laneeo- 1184 OXYDENDKUM late, 3-6 in. long, glabrous, veiny, slender-stalked:clusters borne on leafy shoots of the season: fls. open-ing slowly. Rich woods, Pa. and Ohio, along the Al-leghenies to Fla. 905. 2:571. 5 W. Barclay and W. 1604, Sour-wood arboreum (XJ^). OXYhdSTUVL (Greek, sharp pod). Leguminbsw. Thisis one of many genera of Australian shrubs with pea-like fls. which are little known in cultivation. Forwinter bloom under glass none of them equals CytisusCanariensis. Oxylobium is a genus of 28 species, ofwhich perhaps a dozen have been cult, in Europe. Theirfls. are yellow, or more or less flushed with red on thekeel or the base of the standard. O. Callistachys is per-haps the best for conservatories. In America it is cult,only in S. Calif. Generic characters: Ivs. very short-stalked, oppositeor more or less whorled, rarely scattered or alternate:fls. in terminal or axillary racemes; petals cla
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