. 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. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. TROP^OLUM ee. Petals entire. 10. tuberosum, Ruiz. & Par. Root producing a pyri- form irregular tuber 2-3 in. long: stem climbing, gla- brous; lvs. peltate near the base, cordate-orbicular, 5- lobed nearly or quite
. 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. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. TROP^OLUM ee. Petals entire. 10. tuberosum, Ruiz. & Par. Root producing a pyri- form irregular tuber 2-3 in. long: stem climbing, gla- brous; lvs. peltate near the base, cordate-orbicular, 5- lobed nearly or quite to the middle: lis. rather small, the calyx and long spur red, the petals yellow, small and nearly erect and little exceeding the calyx. Peru. 3714. 5:452. 5:49. 1853:341 (tubers). III. 30 stands some frost. In Peru, the tubers are eaten, and the plant is some- times cult, in Europe for the tubers. It appears in the Amer. catalogues of European dealers. The tubers are usually boiled. ddd. Lvs. entire or only undulate. E. Plant pilose. 11. Lobbianum, Veitch. Annual, climbing, hairy all over except the under parts of the lvs. and the petals: lvs. very long-stalked, peltate, nearly orbicular, undu- late and with points on the margin: lis. large, long- spurred, orange-red, the two upper petals large, broad and entire, the three lower ones small and clawed and coarsely toothed and also fringed on the claws. Colom- bia. 4097. 2:67. 11:271. Var. fimbri- atuni, Hort., has all the petals toothed or fringed. 1856:101. —Seldom seen in its pure state. ee. Plant glabrous. 12. majus, Linn. Pigs. 2585, 2586. Strong-growing, somewhat succulent climbing annual : lvs. peltate, nearly orbicular and undulate-angled: Ms. large, mostly in shades of yellow or orange, with straight spur, the 2 upper petals entire or undulate (not apiculate), the 3 lower ones narrower and fringes on the claws. Peru. 23:3375 (var. atrosangnineiim). 12:
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