Tas. 8808. 
KOCHIA scoparia, forma TRICHOPHILA. 
Garden Origin. 
CHENOPODIACEAE. ‘Tribe CAMPHOROSMEAE. 
Kocuta, Roth ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 60. 
Kochia scoparia, Schrad. Neues Journ. vol. iii. nn. III. & IV. p. 85; forma 
trichophila, Schinz. d: Thell. Verz. Sam. Bot: Gart. Ziirich, 1909, p. 10; 
Graebn. in Aschers. & Graebn. Mitteleurop. Fl. vol. v. p. 163 ; stirps primo 
ex cultis orta a stirpe spontanea habitu quasi plumosa foliis creberrimis 
angustissimis superne plerumque magis ciliatis differt ; tota planta primo 
amoene clareque viridis, maturitate insigniter erubescens vel purpurascens. 
Herba annua, polygama, a basi ramosissima, copiose foliata, globosa, oblonga 
vel conico-pyramidalis, 0-5-1-5m. alta; rami ramulique virgati, erecti, 
primo tenuissime pubescentes, mox glabrati, vel apicem versus imprimis 
pone nodos laxe lanati. Folia anguste linearia vel superiora subfiliformia, 
acuta, longiora ultra 6 cm. longa, 3-1 mm. lata, glabra vel summa magis 
minusve ciliata, omnia ob areolas minutas nervis venisque crebris circum- 
scriptas chlorophyllo destitutas albo-punctata. Flores 3- vel 2-ni vel 
solitarii, in ‘axillis foliorum superiorum sessiles, basi saepe lana laxa 
circumdati, gvel@. Perianthium urceolatum, 5-lobum, membranaceum, 
florum 2 magis depressum, praeter lobos ciliolatos glabrum, lobis cucullato - 
inflexis, subapiculatis dorso carina viridi obtusa percursis, maturitate paulo 
mutatum nisi carinis incrassatis hincinde medio in alam crassam trans- 
versam dilatatis. Antherae purpureae. Ovarium ovoideum ; stylus brevis- 
simus; stigmata 2. Fructus depressus, lenticularis. Pericarpium et testa 
tenuiter membranacea. Embryo horizontalis generis.—K. trichophila, Hort. 
ex Voss, Deutsch. Gartenrat, 1904, Beil. Pflanzenk. p. 18; Stapf in 
Sam. Verz. Haage & Schmidt, 1906, et ex Haage & Schmidt in M6ll. Deutsch. 
Giartn. Zeit. 1906, p. 219; Pattlock in Mdll. Deutsch. Giirtn. Zeit. 
1912, p. 256. K. trichophylla, Hort. ex Voss. |.c. ; Schmeiss in Moll. Deutsch. 
Girtn. Zeit. 1906, p. 11 cum icon.; Burpee, Farm Annual, 1906, p. 125 
(tricophylla) ; Rev. Hort. 1907, p. 119; Trib. Hort. 1907, vol. ii. p. 445; 
Journ. Hort. ser. 3, vol. xvi. p. 495 ; Bailey in Stand. Cyclop. Hort. vol. it. 
p. 1755. K. scoparia, var. trichophylla, Méll. Deutsch. Girtn. Zeit. 1906 ; 
A. Ofsborn] in Gard. Chron. 1906, vol. xl. p. 167 ; Ugolini in Boll. Soc. Bot. 
Ital. 1909, p. 191. K. scoparia, Journ. Hort. 1901, vol. xlvi. p. 298, cum 
icon. p. 294; Gard. Chron. 1901, vol. xxx. p. 359, fig. 110; ibid. 1902, 
vol. xxxi. p. 359.—O. Starr. 
The red Belvidere, also termed the Summer Cypress 
or Mock Cypress, here figured, is generally accepted as 
a cultivated condition of Kochia scoparia, Schrad., a 
Chenopodiaceous plant which extends from temperate 
JULY-SEPTEMBER, 1919. 
