. 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. 2577. Triphasia aurantiola (X K). names Triphasia avrantiola and T. trifoliata are sometimes erroneously applied to the hardy trifoliolate orange (Citrus trifoliiita). In the U. S., little known escept in S. Fla. It withstands some frost. H. J. Webber. TEtPSACUM (Greek, f/ifto, to rub or thresh; probably alludi
. 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. 2577. Triphasia aurantiola (X K). names Triphasia avrantiola and T. trifoliata are sometimes erroneously applied to the hardy trifoliolate orange (Citrus trifoliiita). In the U. S., little known escept in S. Fla. It withstands some frost. H. J. Webber. TEtPSACUM (Greek, f/ifto, to rub or thresh; probably alluding to the ease with which the fertile spike can be broken up). Gramlnetv. Species 2 or 3, of the warmer parts of North America, one extending north to central U. S. and in many places furnishing considerable na- tive fodder. Fls. monoecious, in the same spike, the staniinate above; spikes terminal and axillary; stami- nate spikelets 2-fld., in pairs at each joint; pistillate single, 1-fld., imbedded in each joint of the rachis, so that the smooth cartilaginous axis and the outer glume form a nearly cylindrical mass. At maturity the pistil- late spikes separate into the joints. dactyloides, Linn. (T. violilceumaxiA T. Ddctylis of the trade). Gama Grass. Sesame Grass. Culms in bunches, 4-7 ft.: spikelets 2-3 at summit and often single from the upper axils. Moist soil. Conn., 111., Kans. and south- ward.—A wild fodder grass, sometimes cultivated for the same purpose and also in gardens as a curiosity. Raised from seed, or more certainly from cuttings of the rootstocks. a. S. Hitchcock. TRISTAGMA (Greek, three drops; alluding to the three nectar glands of the ovary). Including Stepha- nolirion. Jjilidceie. A genus of 3 species of bulbous plants from Chile. Radical Ivs. few, narrowly linear; scape naked, bearing rather numerous salver-shaped pedicellate fls. in an umbel: perianth-tube cylindrical, sometimes with a crown in the throat; lobes 6, spread- ing, nearly equal; stamens 6:
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