The century supplement to the dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists . When captured theseBeetles emit a noise whichhas been translated into asqueak, but which in realityis the result of friction, asalready noted. If theseBeetles are left in possession, they willin time so tunnel the treein every direction that littleof the heart-wood also Musk Beetle. ARRACACIA is the correct name of Arracacha. Thegenus embraces about a dozen species of perennial herbs, allAmerican. Flowers white; involucral bracts
The century supplement to the dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists . When captured theseBeetles emit a noise whichhas been translated into asqueak, but which in realityis the result of friction, asalready noted. If theseBeetles are left in possession, they willin time so tunnel the treein every direction that littleof the heart-wood also Musk Beetle. ARRACACIA is the correct name of Arracacha. Thegenus embraces about a dozen species of perennial herbs, allAmerican. Flowers white; involucral bracts leafy orwanting. Leaves pinnate or pinnately decompound. ARSENITES. Two of the most valuable Arsenitesof Copper and of Lime respectively are at the presentday employed as insecticides in the form of ParisGreen and London Purple (which see). Both com-pounds are virulent poisons. ARTABOTRTS. This genus includes about fifteenspecies of sarmentosc or climbing, stove shrubs, natives oftropical Asia and Africa. Flowers solitary or fascicled ;sepals three, cohering at base; petals six, free ; stamensnumerous ; peduncles often hard, FiQ. 79. Musk Beetle (_Aromiamoschata).(Natural size.) 86 The Dictionary of Gardening, ABTAITEIIIA. Stns. Archimenes (of Vahl), genus embraces three species (closely related), nativesof tropical Asia and Australia. A. fimbrialum ia the onlyone introduced. ARTZimiSIA. Inclutling Absinthium. This genusembraces about 150 distinct species (about 200 have beendescribed as such), mostly natives of the Northernhemispliere, but a few are found in South America and tlioSandwich Islands. Four are indigenous in Britain. Tothose described on p. 115, Vol. I., the following should beadded; A. Absinthium (Absinthium). Ciimiuon Wormwood, (linj;^ yellow, rather large, hemispherical, drooping; i-ay floretsvery short; panicles erect, August. I. bipinnatifid,clothed with short, silky down ; segments lanceolate, h. lift. Europe (Br
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