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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
WEEPING ELM. Se Ulmus glabra pendula 
and U. montana pendula. 
WEEPING MOUNTAIN ASH. 
Aucuparia pendula. 
WEEPING OAK. 
pendula. 
WEEPING POPLAR. Se Populus grandi- 
‘dentata pendula and P. Tremula pendula. 
WEEPING RED CEDAR. Se Juniperus 
virginiana pendula. 
WEEPING WILLOW. See Salix babylonica. 
See Pyrus 
See Quercus pedunculata 
WEEVIL- . A common name for Curcu- 
ligo (which see). 
WEEVILS. The popular name for a large division of 
Beetles, of very great interest to the gardener and the 
farmer, because of the injury inflicted by many species on 
garden and field produce. There has been frequent occa- 
sion, in the course of this work, to refer to their ravages 
under various headings, the more important of which are 
mentioned below. The scientific name of the Weevils 
is Rhynchophora (from the Greek 
words rhynchos, a snout, and phero, 
I earry) This name bears re- 
ference to the most characteristic 
mark of the Weevils, viz., that 
the head is prolonged and nar- 
rowed forwards into a snout, on 
which the antennae are placed. 
The snout, or beak, in many is 
short and flattened; but in a few 
(e.g, Nut-Weevil) it is very long, 
slender, and curved abruptly 
downwards. The mouth is at the 
end of the beak. The antennæ are 
very generally elbowed—i.e., the 
basal joint is long and slender, and 
the others are short, and form a 
row, attached to the tip of the 
basal joint at an angle with it. 
Few Weevils of temperate cli- 
mates are large; most are very 
small, The body is very often 
short, rounded, and very hard, 
less often slender and elongate, 
or depressed and flattened, Like 
other Beetles, they undergo a 
complete metamorphosis, their 
larve being usually white, fleshy, 
legless grubs, with the head horny, 
dark, and furnished with strong 
jaws. Many of them live in the 
interior of fruits, or of seeds, 
but others burrow in leaves, or 
in the wood or pith of twigs, or 
in galls. The Beetles themselves 
tive, gnawing the leaves, bark, or 
and shrubs. The habits of the larvæ and of the Beetles 
ied, and the injuries done b 
manifold, that it would exceed + een £0 
the full details here; but 
in regard to the more important 
Orchestes, Otiorhynchus, Pea (Insect PxsTs), Pine. 
» Plum (Insecr Pests) 
Raspberry (Insecrs), Rhynchit Scolytide : 
tona, and Turnip-Seed Weevil,” : 
WEIGELIA (also spelt Weigela). This is now re- 
garded, by the authors of the * Genera Plantarum," as 
synonymous with Diervilla (which see). The correct 
Weigelia—continued. 
Fig. 216. SEEDLING PLANT OF WEIGELIA (DIERVILLA) ROSEA 
IN FLOWER. 
name of W. rosea (see Fig. 216) is Diervilla rosea, and 
W. rosea monstrosa (s2e Fig. 217) is now correctly named 
D. rosea monstrosa. 
WEINMANNIA (named after John William Wein- 
mann, apothecary at Ratisbon, author of *“ Phytan- 
thozaiconographica,” 1737). SYN. Leiospermum. ORD. 
Sawifragew. A genus embracing about fifty species of 
stove or greenhouse, glabrous or tomentose trees or 
shrubs, inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula and Islands, 
the Mascarene and Pacific Islands, Australia, New Zea- 
land, and tropical and temperate South America. Flowers 
white, small, fascicled or scattered, disposed in simple, 
terminal and axillary, erect racemes; calyx tube short, 
the limb four or five-partite ; petals four or five, spathu- 
late or ovate, sessile; stamens eight or ten, inserted 
with the petals. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, petiolate, 
simple, trifoliolate, or imparipinnate; leaflets usually 
glandular-serrated; rachis often winged; stipules vart- 
able, deciduous. Branchlets opposite, often terete. 
selection of the introduced species is here given. They 
