. 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. PEUMUS PHACELIA 1287 after anthesis circumscissile above the disk-bearing base and deciduous: drupes 2-5: seeds pendulous; albumen copious. Boldus, Molina {Boldba frcigrans, C Gay). Attaining 20 ft.: Ivs. opposite, leathery, very rough and warty. Chile. 31:57. PFAFFIA (C. H. Pfafe, 1774-1852, German chemis
. 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. PEUMUS PHACELIA 1287 after anthesis circumscissile above the disk-bearing base and deciduous: drupes 2-5: seeds pendulous; albumen copious. Boldus, Molina {Boldba frcigrans, C Gay). Attaining 20 ft.: Ivs. opposite, leathery, very rough and warty. Chile. 31:57. PFAFFIA (C. H. Pfafe, 1774-1852, German chemist). Amarantdcece. Nine species of slender perennial herbs from Brazil, tomentose or villous, rarelj' glabiate: Ivs. opposite, sessile or nearly so, entire: heads or spikes densely fid.: bracts and bractlets transparent: fis. usu- ally in solitary, loug-peduucled heads, bracteate and with 2 bractlets; perianth 5-parted; staminal tube long, 5-cut to the middle, the anther-bearing teeth ciliate at the margin: stigma discoid or head-like, entire or 2-lobed. Pfaffia gnaphalioides (syn., Gomphrena gnaphalioi- des) has been slightly known to European gardens for a good many years. In 1899, Peter Henderson & Co. offered "GompJirena gnaphaJloldes, or the Trailing Am- aranth,"with the remark that it is a desirable trailer for covering embankments and rocks, thrives on poor, dry soil and has white fis. like small clover blossoms. Because of the failure of the seed crop, however, the plant did not become established in the American trade. The probability is that the plant in the trade at pres- ent as Gomphrena gnaphalioides is incorrectly named. In catalogues the trade plant is figured with the flower- heads in clusters of three and on short stalks, while DeCandolle describes the heads as solitary and long- stalked. Moreover, the true plant has always been re- garded as a stove plant in Europe, and at best it could be treated in America only as a tender annual and not as a ha
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