. 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. 932 LISTERA LITHRiEA cord^ta. Very slender, 3-10 in. liish : Ivs. cordate- ovate, nuicronate: raceme 1-2 in. long, with 4-20 minute purplish fls. June-Aug. In moist woods, Nova Scotia to Alaska and Ore., south to N. J.; Eu. : 473. Heinkioh Hasselbring. LITHOSPfiEMUM (Greek, rock seed; the seeds like little
. 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. 932 LISTERA LITHRiEA cord^ta. Very slender, 3-10 in. liish : Ivs. cordate- ovate, nuicronate: raceme 1-2 in. long, with 4-20 minute purplish fls. June-Aug. In moist woods, Nova Scotia to Alaska and Ore., south to N. J.; Eu. : 473. Heinkioh Hasselbring. LITHOSPfiEMUM (Greek, rock seed; the seeds like little stones). Borragindcece. This includes a few low- growing hardy herbaceous perennials of minor impor- tance. The best known is i. prostyafum, a rock-gardeu trailer, which bears numer- ous leafy spikes of blue fls., each about % in. across,from early summer to 1303. Puccoon,â Lithospermum canescens (X %). 1304. Lithospermum aneustifolium. Nat. size. The common Grorawell, £. officinale, is rarely cult, as a medicinal herb. The rest are procurable from dealers in native plants. Seeds of the G-romwell and the western species are procurable, and plants of the other kinds. i. prostratum is said to be prop, only by cuttings of the previous year's wood; I/. niHltifloruni by cuttings of young shoots. The kinds with red roots yield a dye. Lithospermum has about 40 species in extra-tropical regions: herbs or subshrubs, rough, silky, or bristly: 1 vs. alternate: fls. white, yellow, bluish or violet; calyx 5-parted; corolla funnel-or salver-shaped, 5-lobed; sta- mens 5, fixed to the tube: ovary 4-lobed. A. Color of fls. hlue or purplish. B. Habit trailing: tube of corolla densely hairy, thrice as long as the calyx. prostratum, Lois. Gentian Blue Gromweli.,. Sub- shrub: Ivs. lanceolate-linear, margin somewhat revolute: tube of corolla pubescent outside, densely villous at apex. B. Eu. This is presumably the plant in the trade, since 1/. prostratum, Buekl., is a white-fld. annual
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