. 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. HOSACKIA west American plants. The genus contains about 30 spe- cies, all American and almost wholly contined to the Pa- citlc slope. Herbs or rarely subshrubs: Ivs. pinnate,with 2 to many l£ts.: stipules minute and gland-like, rarely searious or leafy: tls. yellow or reddish, in axillary um- bels which are ped
. 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. HOSACKIA west American plants. The genus contains about 30 spe- cies, all American and almost wholly contined to the Pa- citlc slope. Herbs or rarely subshrubs: Ivs. pinnate,with 2 to many l£ts.: stipules minute and gland-like, rarely searious or leafy: tls. yellow or reddish, in axillary um- bels which are peduucled or not. The gonus is closely related to Lotus, liut the calyx teeth are shorter than the tube: keel obtuse: Ivs. usually with numerous Itts., none of which are like stipules, while Lotxis has calyx lobes usually longer than the tube, a rostrate keel and 5 or 4 lfts.,of which 13 or 1 are stipule-like. The 2 species Brst mentioned belong to a section in which the pods are shortly acute, linear, many-seeded, straight, glabrous: Hs. and fr. not reHoxed : peduncles long. The third species belongs to a section in which the pods are long-atfenuate upwards, incurved, ]iul)es- cent : peduncles short or none: 11s. and fr. retlexed. Monogr. by Watson iu Bot. Calif. 1:133. crassifdlia, Benth. Stout, 2-3 ft. high, nearly gla- brous : Ifts. 9-l"p, thickish : stipules searious, small: bract below the umbel : calyx teeth short : pod thi<-k: tls. greenish yellow or purplish. 23:1977. bicolor, Dongl. Glabrous: Ifts. 5-9: stipules searious, small: bract usually none or small: calyx treth half as long as the tube : iiod slender : Hs. yellow, the wings often white. 2913. decumbens, Benth. Silky or woolly, with appressed hairs: stems ascending, 1 ft. or more long: stems her- baceous: Ifts. ,5-7 : uml)elg less dense: stipules glainl- like: pods pubescent. •^- jj HOTBEDS. These are low glass structures that arr generally heated by fermenting vegetatjle substances, such as s
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