. 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. ^^^mj^-^ 1450. Myrica Nagi in flower (X 3^). Natural size of the edible fruits is about an inch. cut: male fls. borne in short catkins on the new growth; stamens 2-16, usually 4-6; female fls. mostly solitary: drupe globose or ovoid. N4gi, Thunb. {M. rubra, Sieb. & Zucc). Fig. 1450. Bush or tree: Ivs. 3-5 i
. 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. ^^^mj^-^ 1450. Myrica Nagi in flower (X 3^). Natural size of the edible fruits is about an inch. cut: male fls. borne in short catkins on the new growth; stamens 2-16, usually 4-6; female fls. mostly solitary: drupe globose or ovoid. N4gi, Thunb. {M. rubra, Sieb. & Zucc). Fig. 1450. Bush or tree: Ivs. 3-5 in. long, oblong-lanceolate, taper- ing at the base, entire or serrate; male catkins axillary, solitary, cylindrical, K-l/i in. long; stamens 6-10; fe- male catkins shorter than the male, few-fld. Tropical and subtropical Asia. 5727. M. asplenifblia. See Comptonia. "W. M. MYEIOCfiPHALTJS (Greek, ten-tlimtaand-headed). Compositoi. M. Stnartii is an odd sort of everlasting flower, known to the trade as Pohjcalyrnma Stnartii, being otfered in only one of the largest American cata- logues of annual fls. It is a half-hardy plant, growing about ft. high and bearing yellow and white heads. Myriocephalus is a genus f about 8 annual or perennial herbs, all Australian, often hoary, especially when young : Ivs. altei'nate, entire : clusters or compound heads terminal, usually globose or hemispherical: heads exceedingly numerous and sessile on a broad, very flat receptacle, surrounded by a general involucre of numer- ous narrow bracts in many rows, each usually with a scarious tip or radiating appendage. In M. Stnartii these appendages are 1-2 lines long, broad, white and very conspicuous. Flora Australiensis 3:557 (1866). Sttiartii, Benth. {Polyeah'/nima Stnartii, F. Muell. & Sond.). Pubescent or woolly, not much branched: Ivs. linear or lanceolate, 1-2 in. long: clusters hemispherical, 1 in. or more across: partial heads 5-8-fld.: seeds woolly; pappus of numerous cUiate
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