. A practical guide to garden plants, containing descriptions of the hardiest and most beautiful annuals and biennials, hardy herbaceous and bulbous perennials, hardy water and bog plants, flowering and ornamental trees and shrubs, conifers; hardy ferns; hardy bamboos and other ornamental grasses. Also the best kinds of fruits and vegetables that may be grown in the open air in the British Isles with full and practical instruction as to culture and propagation. Gardening; Gardening; Botany, Economic. 16 PBACTIOAL GUIDE TO GARDEN PLANTS Smooth, free from all kinds of roughness. Solitary, growin
. A practical guide to garden plants, containing descriptions of the hardiest and most beautiful annuals and biennials, hardy herbaceous and bulbous perennials, hardy water and bog plants, flowering and ornamental trees and shrubs, conifers; hardy ferns; hardy bamboos and other ornamental grasses. Also the best kinds of fruits and vegetables that may be grown in the open air in the British Isles with full and practical instruction as to culture and propagation. Gardening; Gardening; Botany, Economic. 16 PBACTIOAL GUIDE TO GARDEN PLANTS Smooth, free from all kinds of roughness. Solitary, growing singly, said of flowers when only one is borne on the stalk. Spadix, a succulent spike bearing many sessile closely placed flowers, as in flg. 99, where represents the barren stamens ; the fertile stamens; bp the barren pistils ; and fp the fertile ones capable of producing seeds. SpaUie, a large bract often inclosing a spadix, as shown in fig. 41; s is the spathe and sp the spadix. FIG. 102.—SPADIX. — SPATHULATE. PIG. lot—SPIKE. Spathulate or Spatulate, oblong, with a long and narrow base; spoon-shaped (flg. 103). Spike, a long simple axis with many sessUe flowers like a raceme except that the ihdividual flowers have no stalks; see fig. 104, representing the flower spike of Plantain. Spikelet, the small group of flowers in Grasses enclosed within one or more glumes. Spine, a stiff, sharp, woody, persistent thorn, as seen in Gooseberries, Barberries, Black- thorns &a. Spinose, furnished with spines. Spinulose, with small, often very minute spines or prickles. Sporangium, a single spore ease which eon- tains the spores or seeds of Ferns. In fig. 105 sp represents the dust-like spores falling from the ruptured case; and «. represents the stifEer ringed midrib or annu- lus (see Indusium). Spur, a tubular exten- sion of the lower part of a petal or monopetalous corolla, as seen in Columbines and TropsBolum (fig. 22). Squamatus, clothed with scales. Sq
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