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Title: The American botanist : a monthly journal for the plant lover
Identifier: americanb212219151916bing (find matches)
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Botany
Publisher: Binghamton, N. Y. : Willard N. Clute & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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52 THE AAIERICAX BOTANIST The newly advertised Byzantine or Wonder Lily" may be flowered in the same way. The flowers are a beautiful shade of pink. Several bulbs grouped together will give a fine
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cluster of bloom. I have been unable to find the scientific name of this plant, but it appears to be identical with our autumn crocus, which will flower in the same manner. It is probably Colchicuin Byzantinuin, a native of Trasylvania and Constanti- nople. These bulbs contain only suf- ficient food to produce a flower. The process of flowering exhausts the supply and causes them to dry up. Interesting experiments may be carried on in the same manner with a number of other plants. The resur- rection plant (SclagincUa Icpido- phylla), is wonderfully interesting. In a dried condition it is to all ap- pearances as dead and valueless as a dried-up pig-weed, but place it in a saucer of water and see what hap- pens ! The leaflets gradually unfold into as beautiful a rosette as one could wish. The plant is really dead, but the absorption of water causes the leaflets to expand and the bright green upper surface gives the appear- ance of life. It is a native of Texas and Mexico southward to Peru. The Rose of Jericho (Auafafica Hicrochiuitica) is another notable The Devils Tongue resurrection plant. It is an annual

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v.21-22 (1915-1916)
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