. 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. 2517. The Spanish Moss â TiUandsia usneoides, haneins from the trees. Gulf AA. Plant-body stiff and nearly oi qtiiti itf t B. Stamens shorter than the petal-. c. Fls. few in the cluster. recurvata, Linn. (T. Biirtrami, Ell., at least in part). A few inches high, tufted, with scurfy terete or fili- form recurved
. 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. 2517. The Spanish Moss â TiUandsia usneoides, haneins from the trees. Gulf AA. Plant-body stiff and nearly oi qtiiti itf t B. Stamens shorter than the petal-. c. Fls. few in the cluster. recurvata, Linn. (T. Biirtrami, Ell., at least in part). A few inches high, tufted, with scurfy terete or fili- form recurved 2-ranked Ivs.: fls. 1-5 on a spike that is sheathed at the base but naked above, the corolla blue and exceeding the calyx. Florida to Argentina and Chile. cc. Fls. many, distichous. 4nceps, Lodd. (\'riesia rinceps, Lem.). Erect, the flower-stem 6-12 in. tall and bearing a spike with large distichous green bracts from which small blue fls. emerge: Ivs. stiff, about 1 ft. long, dilated and striped at the "base: fls. 2 in. or less long, blue or purplish, the perianth much exceeding the calyx. Costa Rica, Trinidad. 8-771. Llndeniana, Kegel (T. LIndeni, Morr. l-rirsiaL!,,- deni, Lem.). Lvs. rosulate. about 1 ft. long, dilated at the base, long recurving: ,^ hra.'ls carmine; fls. III-., rxM-rted beyond till' iiriii-ts. the large wide- spreading segments bluish purple. Ecuador. Peru. I. H. 16:610; 27:370 (as var. Kegeliina). II. 12: 461. R. H. 1872:230; 18118: 206 (as var. tricolor). 1872:44. âA handsome and popular species. BB. Stamens longer than the petals. c. Stem fhichened and bvlb- like at the base. bulbdsa, Hook. Small high, the stem swollen at the base: Ivs. 3-5 in. long, much dilated and clasping at the base and terete above: fls. few, in racemose short. 2516. Spanish MossâTilland sia usneoides. (Much re dueed.) scurfy plant a few inches ( I Stem not ptominently swollen. II Lis linear oi filiform from the base or abruptly from a dilate
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