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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
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very variableaquatic plants, the number of species depending on thepoint of view of eacl^ author. Nearly or quite 100 spe-cific names occur in the gentis, but Micheli, the latestmonographer (DC. Monogr. Phaner. 3) reduces thespecies to 13, four of which are doubtful. In his mono-graph of the American forms (Gth Rep. )Mo. Bot. Gard.)Jared G. Smith admits 21 species. The present ten-dency amongst American writers is to recognize severalrather than few species. In common with most aquaticplants, they are widely distributed. They occur inmany parts of the world, in both temperate and tropical SAGITTARIA SAINTPAULIA 15C7 regions. Most of the species have arrow-shaped leaves,whence the name. They are useful for foliage effectsin bogs and shallow ponds, and also for their whitebuttercup-like flowers, which are borne in successivesmall whorls on an erect scape. They are mostly usedfor colonizing in the open, but S. Monferidensis —nowthe most popular species —is grown in indoor aquaria or
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2226. Common Arrowhead—Sagittaria latifolia (X J^).Commonly known as S. variabilis. plunged in open ponds in the summer. The arrowheadsare perennials of easy culture, although likely to beinfested with aphis. Prop, by division, or sometimesby seeds. Plants of mostly erect habit, the Ivs. and scapes aris-ing from more or less tuberous or knotted rootstocks:Ivs. typically arrow-shaped, with long basal lobes, butsometimes long and linear: fls. imperfect, monoecious(staminate fls. usually in the uppermost whorls) or di-oecious, with 3 white broad petals and 3 small greenishsepals, the stamens and pistils numerous, the latterripening into small akenes: inflorescence composed ofsuccessive whorls of 3-stalked fls. Sometimes the Ivs.are floating. A. Sepals of pistillate fls. (visually in the louverivhorls) erect after flowering, and the pedicels ofthese fls. thick: carpels not glandular. Montevid§nsis, Cham. & Schlecht. Giant Arrow-head. Very large, sometimes growing G ft. tall, withle

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