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An Encyclopedia of horticulture. 
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The following are the Abbreviations used :—f. flowers; fr. fruit; L leaves; h. height; deg. degrees; 
rhiz, rhizomes; cau. caudex ; sti. stipes. 
The Asterisks (*) indicate plants that are especially good or distinct. 
FABA (the old Latin name, from the same root as 
phago, to eat; the seeds are esculent). Bean. ORD. 
Leguminose. This genus, which contains but the species 
described below, is now included under Vicia. For 
culture, see Bean. 
vulgaris (common), fl. white, with a blackish-blue silky spot ` 
og 
in the middle of the wings. J. thick, with two to five broad, oval, 
mucronate leaflets; stipules semi-sagittate, oval; tendrils of- 
leaves almost wanting. h. 2ft. to 3ft. As is the case with so. 
many commonly cultivated food plants, the origin and native 
country of the Bean are doubtful. It was cultivated in pre- 
historic times in Europe, Egypt, and Arabia ; and, according to 
De Candolle (“ Origine des plantes cultivées”), it may be truly 
native about the Caspian Sea and in North Africa. There is a 
variety of this species (equina) called the Horse Bean. 
FABACEZ:. See Leguminose. amt 
FABIANA (named after Francisco Fabiano, of 
Valencia, in Spain, a promoter of botany). ORD. Sola- 
nacee. A genus containing about eleven species of South 
American shrubs. F. imbricata is a very pretty hardy 
evergreen Heath-like shrub, of erect, rigid growth. It 
thrives in almost any soil, and succeeds best when grown 
against a wall; in the more northern counties of England, 
it is necessary to protect it during severe weather. In- 
creased readily by cuttings of firm young shoots, inserted 
in sandy soil, in a cold frame, in spring. 
F. imbricata (imbricated),* 1 i i 
produced in fiom profusion Rts ow nec eden rs 
reflexed. May. l. small, ovate, sessile, cro h. 3ft. Chili, 
1838. This forms an excellent pe for the hardy Heath border, 
or for the decoration of the cool conservatory. (B. R. xxv. 59.) 
FABRICIA. Now included under Leptospermum 
(which see). 
FADYENIA (named after James MacFadyen, 1800- 
1850, author of a Flora of Jamaica). Orp. Filices. A 
- peculiar and pretty monotypic genus, admirably adapted 
for a Wardian case. Sori oblong, in two series. In- 
volucre large, sub-reniform, attached by the centre. For 
general cultivation, see Ferns. 
F. prolifera (proliferous).* fronds entire, dimorphous ; the sterile 
ones fin. to lin. broad, elongated, and rooting at the apex ; fertile 
one late, narrowed below, 6in. to 9in. long, about }in. broad. 
Cuba and Jamaica, 1843. 
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_ Polygonaceew. A genus of two or three hardy 
FPAGELIA (named after Caspar Fagelius, a cultivator 
of plants). ORD. Leguminose. An ornamental decumbent, 
greenhouse, twining sub-shrub, clothed with clammy hairs. 
- F, bit (pitchy). fl. yellow, keel tipped with violet, on 
long, pedicels; racemes axillary. <A 
— pinnately-trifoliolate ; leaflets rhomboid; stipules 
„ovate, a pe of Good Hope, 1774. (B. R. 261, 
name of Glycine bituminosa.) n 
PYRUM (from phago, to eat, and Py 
Wheat; in reference to the seeds being edible). ORD. 
gap 
eatin vari 
for pheasants; but on the 
tates, it is largely 
Utania. Orp. Loganiaceew. A genus containing about 
thirty species of ornamental stove trees or shrubs. 
Flowers showy; corolla funnel-shaped, with an imbricate, 
five (rarely six or seven) cleft limb. Leaves large, op- 
posite, broad, coriaceous. ‘The species thrive in a com- 
post of loam, peat, and sand. Cuttings of young shoots, 
made about April, root readily in sand, under a bell 
glass, with bottom heat. The species described below 
are probably the only ones yet in cultivation. 
F. auriculata (auricled).* /. yellow, large ; ped ter- 
2 usually by threes. { a roa ——— 
acute, veiny ; interpetiolar stipules two-lobed, recurved. Ja 
An epiphytal —— ee oe 
F. obovata (obovate). f. white, fi 
- than those of F. zeylanica ; Sucker tern rminal, 
sub-corymbose. l. 5in. to ng, thick ; p 
with a few glandular ciliæ, cor ; et inte 
h. 12ft. Ceylon, 1816. Tree. (B. M. 4 
