. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. ORTHROSANTHUS superposed; style-branches alternating with the an- thers: seeds minute, very near Sisyrinchium. which is a more variable genus, and has longer pedicels. See Bakers Handbook of the Iridete (1892). There seems to be no recorded American experience with O.
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. ORTHROSANTHUS superposed; style-branches alternating with the an- thers: seeds minute, very near Sisyrinchium. which is a more variable genus, and has longer pedicels. See Bakers Handbook of the Iridete (1892). There seems to be no recorded American experience with O. multiflorus. Krelage lists it among bulbs suit- able for frame culture. Nicholson says it thrives and does best when planted in the border of a cold conser- vatory, and adds "if, however, it is necessary to grow them in pots, use turfy loam and leaf-mold, and insure sufficient ; multiflorus. Sweet {Libe'rtia asiirea, Lvs. a dozen or more, l-l}4 ft. long. }4 to K of an inch wide: panicle 4-6 in. long: capsiile obtuse. Southern anil â western Australia. 15:1474. 13:1090 (as Sisyrinchium cyaneum). ^V. M. OR'tZA (derived from the Arabic name, Eruz), Graminete. Six species of the tropics, including O. sfttiva, Linn., the well-known rice of commerce. This is a native of the Old World tropics, and is naturalized in Brazil; cultivated extensively in China and India and more recently in the coast region of our southern states. A marsh plant, with flowers in panicles; spike- lets 1-fld.; empty glumes 2, small; and palet about equal, laterally compressed, keeled, the former usually more or less awned. Contrary to the usual sup- position, rice paper is not made from rice, but from Paper Mulberry or Bamboo. j^ g_ Hitchcock. 0RYZ6PSIS (Greek, rice-like: from a fancied re- semblance to that grain). Gramineo:. Mountain-Rice. Contains about 24 species of temperate regions. Mostly tufted perennials, with narrow panicles of rather large greenish 1
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