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Title: 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954, ed Miller, Wilhelm, 1869- joint ed
Subjects: Gardening -- Dictionaries Plants -- North America encyclopedias
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page & Company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: UMass Amherst Libraries

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oothed, pale yellow, with anarrow band of cinnamon-brown spots around tlie mar-gin; column wings entire. Cent. Amer. F.S. 19:1956.l.H. 41, p. 206. 47. Jonesi&num, Reichb. Plants with fleshy, rush-like lvs. 3-12 in. long and usually hanging downwards:fl.-stems 6 in. to 2 ft. long, the largest bearing about adozen fls. 2 in. across: sepals and petals oblong, wavy,cream-colored, with sepia-brown spots; labellum white,yellow at the base, with a few crimson spots near theisthmus; middle lobe large, subreniform, 2-lobed, wavy;lateral lobes toothed. Fls. at various seasons. Para-guay. B.M. 6982. R.B. 15:7. Gn. 31:583 -The hand-somest of the round-leaved species. 48 CeboUeta, Swartz. (0.j«)!Cj7d;»Hm, Lindl.). Pseu-dobulbs very small, each with a single, terete, obscurelyfurrowed leaf: lvs. 1 ft. long, spreading, harsh in tex-ture: panicle rigid, erect, about 2 ft. high: sepals andpetals nearly equal, obovate, greenish yellow, spottedwith red; labellum large, bright yellow; lateral lobes
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ONCIDIUM ONION 1135 broadly obovate; middle lobe broadly obovate or subreni-form, undulate, notched in front. Spring and summer.Brazil. B.M.3568. B.R. 23:1994; 28:4 (as O. longlfulium).40. triqudtrum, R.Br. (Ci/tnhidium triquetrnm, Swz.JJfHtJriidrinti truinetnim, Swz.). Paeudobulbs none:Ivs. tVW, 4-0 in. long, triquitrous and grooved: scapealiuut as long as the Ivs., purplish, bearing a raceme of10-12 medium-sized tls.: sepals broadly lanceolate, thelower pair united, piirplish green; petals ovate, white,tinged with green ami spotted with purple; labellumcordate-ovate, constricted near the middle, white spottedwith purple; crest orange. Autumn. Jamaica. B.M.3393. A supplementary list of synonyms and imperfectly knownkinds advertised in Amerit!a: O. aiisiferum, Reichb. f. Sepalsimd petals ohlong-obovate, free, crisp; labellum with ligiilatelateral lobes and a reniform, emarginate middle lobe, goldenyellow, with 2 dark brown bars at the base, tiaecid. The sepalsand petals are greenish,

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