. AN ENCYCLOPADIA 
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OF HORTICULTURE. 
Hibiscus—continued. 
H. r.-s, miniatus semi-plenus (half-double vermilion). fi. ver- 
milion-scarlet, semi-double; petals very much waved and recurved, 
forming an irregular undulated mass 4in. across. l. leathery, 
ovate, coarsely toothed. : 
H. r.-s. vivicans (lively). fi. brilliant crimson-scarlet, 4in. to 
Sin. in diameter, the centre being completely filled up with 
broad, conyolute petaloid processes, 
H. r.-s. zebrinus (zebra-striped). fl. about 34in. in diameter, and 
2sin, deep, double; the five outer petals scarlet, edged with 
creamy-yellow in the lower part ; staminal column entirely 
petaloid, with numerous irregular tufts at the apex, of a creamy- 
yellow colour, variously and irregularly striped and flaked with 
scarlet. The flowers are very irregular and grotesque in form. 
H. roseus (rosy). fl. rose-coloured, large, axillary, solitary. J. 
large, broadly oval-acuminate, covered with white tomentum 
beneath. k. 3ft. Naturalised in marshy spots in France and else- 
where. Probably of New World origin. Hardy. See Fig. 227. 
H. schizopetalus (cut-petaled).* fl. brilliant orange-red, pendu- 
lous, on slender peduncles ; petals deeply cut or laciniated ; the 
united filaments of the stamens closely surround the style, and 
the latter projects about 2in. beyond the corolla. A remarkable 
stove species, (B. M. 6524.) 
H. speciosus (showy). A synonym of H, coccineus. 
H. splendens (splendid). fl. rose-coloured, very large ; pedicels 
as long as the petioles ; calyx lin. long, deeply divided, densely 
tomentose or hispid. May. J. on long petioles, broadly ovate- 
cordate, or palmately three or five-lobed, often 6in. or Tin. long ; 
lobes oblong-acuminate or lanceolate, often narrowed at base. 
h. 12ft. to 20ft. Australia, 1828, A beautiful, densely tomentose 
nhouse shrub; branches and petioles bristly or prickly. 
B. M. 3025; B. R. 1629.) 
FIG. 228. FLOWERING BRANCH OF HIBISCUS SYRIACUS. 
H. syriacus (Syrian).* fl., varying much in colouration, large, 
single or double; pedicels hardly longer than the leaves; 
nvolucre six or seven-leaved. — l. alternate, ovate, 
Jedge shaped, three-lobed, toothed, A. 6ft. Syria, 1596. y 
deciduous shrub, See Fig. Syn, Althea frutex. The fol- 
lowing are the most approved varieties : ALBO-LUTEOLUS PLENUS, — 
ALBO-PLENUS, AMARANTHUS, AMPLISSIMUS, ANEMONAFLORUS, 
ARDENS, BICOLOR HYBRIDUS, CARNEO-PLENUS, COZLESTIS, CŒRU- 
LEUS PLENUS, DUC DE BRABANT, DUCHESSE DE BRABANT, ELE- 
GANTISSIMUS, FASTUOSUS, LEOPOLDU, MONSTROSUS, POMPON 
UGE, PUNICEUS PLENUS PURPUREUS VARIEGATUS, RANUNCULI- 
— ROSEUS PLENUS, RUBRUS PLENUS, SPECIOSUS RUBRUS, 
— ALBUS, VIOLACEUS ATROPURPUREUS FLORE-PLENISSIMO, 
IOLACEUS VARIEGATUS, VIOLET CLAIR (double). 
 H.Tr i Bladder Ketmia. /l. yellow, with a le 
centre, —— bBbe linear. 
a * 2ft. Africa, Hardy annual. See Fig. 229. SYN. H. africanus. 
Hibiscus—continued. 
Fic, 229. FLOWERING BRANCH OF HIBISCUS Trronum, 
Varieties. The varieties of H. rosa-sinensis and 
H. syriacus are very beautiful, especially those of the 
former. For this reason, only a few of the typical 
species are seen in our gardens, and these are m 
inferior to the varieties. 
‘HICKORY. ‘See Carya. 
HIERACIUM (the Greek name used by Dioscorides 
for another plant, from hierax, a hawk ; application doubt- 
ful). Hawkweed. ORD. Composite. A genus, comprising 
about 150 species of hardy perennial herbs, from 
Europe, North Asia, and a few from America, very nearly 
allied to Crepis. Flower-heads yellow, or rarely orange- 
red; involucre more or less imbricated. Leaves entire 
or toothed. Comparatively few of the species of this 
extensive genus are worth growing. These are of very 
easy culture in any ordinary garden soil. Some of the 
British ones do well on old walls, and in such positions 
are very ornamental. Propagated by divisions, in spring; 
or by seeds. isa ae 
* f,-heads orange-red ; corymb to 
mg Sarre peel i —— with long hairs, — —— 
l. elliptical, acute, entire. Stem often bearing one or two leaves 
the bottom, hairy. A. lft. to Uft. Seandinayia to the Pyrenees 
—— in Noth of England and Scotland). 3 5y. En b. 823.) 
H. Pilosella (mouse-ear). /l.-heads lemi ; 
with red on the outside ; | nvol 
; and chloa, grass: 
ses are strewn before 
oly Grass. Syns. Dis- 
ered. d, open mn-panicled; flowers all with two paleas; 
——— exceeding the spikelet, searious. 
Hierochloes grow freely in damp spots, in any ordinary 
garden soil. Propagated by seeds, which are abundantly 
r > icl 1, lin. to tomes om 
; : cle contracted, lin. to 2in. ; Ome 
ar e staminate — — — or short-awned near the — 
tip, the other long-awned from below the middle. spe t L, lower 
ones very narrow. A. 1ft. Northern hemisphere (on moun- 
in :), 1827. : a P 
are (Northern). E — chestnut-colonr A — 
trongly hairy-fringed on the margins, with * 
Sowers r 4 or bristle-pointed at or near the tip; 
- Rootstock ing. 
palea mucronate 4 - peduncles 
 ‘somewha -sided, pyramidal, 2in. to 5in. long; pedu 
— — 1. short, lanceolate, Culm lft. to aft. high. 
Northern hemisphere (Caithness). 
