- African, and the rest inhabit America. 
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Xylopia--continued. 
THE DICTIONARY 
leafy, stove trees or shrubs; five are Indian, six or seven | 
Flowers solitary 
or fascicled in the axils, sessile or shortly pedicellate ; 
sepals three, more or less connate, valvate; petals six, E e 
biseriate, the inner ones included; stamens indefinite. 
Leaves coriaceous, often distichous. It is doubtful 
whether the under-mentioned tree is still grown in 
gardens. A compost of sandy loam and fibry peat, to 
which is added a small quantity of broken bricks, char- 
coal, and dried cowdung, is most suitable for its culture. 
Propagated by cuttings of the hard shoots, inserted in 
sandy soil, in heat. : 
$ L, CO: ilky; outer petals 4in. to 4in. 
m eme te euer, ia the p som ag 
l. lanceolate, taper-pointed, 2in. to Jin. long, downy beneath, | 
clothed with appressed hairs in o^ ead state. h. 20ft. West 
Indies, Venezuela, and Guiana, 1820. 
XYLOSTEUM. 
see). 
XYRIDEZ. A small natural order of perennial or 
Included under Lonicera (which 
rarely annual, Rush-like or Sedge-like, tufted herbs, broadly | 
dispersed over the warmer regions of the globe, often 
growing in watery places. Flowers hermaphrodite, 
searcely irregular, in terminal, solitary heads of densely. 
imbricating, rigid, scarious, one-flowered bracts; perianth 
of six segments in two series, the three onter segments 
ealyeine, the three inner petaloid; stamens three to six, 
inserted on the inner perianth segments, three opposite 
fertile, the others sterile, penicillate, or obsolete; filaments 
filiform ; anthers two-celled. Capsule one-celled, loculidally 
three-valved, or three-celled and fenestrate at base, oper- 
culate above; scapes erect, simple. Leaves radical, 
rosulate or clustered, linear or rarely linear-lanceolate, 
sheathing at base, often equitant. Roots fibrous. The 
leaves and roots of these plants are used in the cure 
of itch in India and South America. The order 
embraces two genera—Abolboda and Xyris—and less than 
_ fifty species. : 
_ XYRIS (an old Greek name used by Dioscorides for 
ris fetidissima). Yellow-eyed Grass of North America. 
ORD. Xyridew. A genus comprising about forty species 
of stove, greenhouse, or hardy, perennial or rarely annual, 
Rush-like herbs, broadly dispersed over the warmer regions 
of the globe. Flower-heads globose, ovoid, or rarely 
hemispherical or shortly cylindrical; sepals petaloid, 
very broad, more or less distinctly three-nerved; corolla 
lobes ovate ; staminodes often three. Leaves radical, 
linear, rigid or Grass-like, tufted or distichous, surrounding 
i the scape. X. operculata, the only species worth de- 
seribing here, thrives in light, rich soil. It may be 
increased by divisions of the root. 
@ (covered). J/L-heads ovoid to 
S mnes globular, four to 
in 
shining brown, 
some of 
subulate leaves, most! them produced into very narrow, almost | 
long. Australia, 1804. 
205.) ° 
Stove perennial. (B. 
LALOBIUM (from xysma, a fragmen 
lobos, a division ; alluding to the minute divisions M ae 
corona). ORD. Asclepiadeæ. A genus consisting of about 
eight species of stove or greenhouse, perennial herbs 
natives of tropical and South Africa. Flowers in umbelli- 
form cymes; calyx five-parted ` 
glands at the base having five or many 
campanulate, five-cleft, the lobes fl -bear 
naked within; coronal scales bay i 
tube. Leaves opposite, broadly lanceolate i 
X. padifolium, the only species known in a eoem 
Similar treatment to that recommended for Gompho- 
padifolium (Cherry-leaved). This is the correct name 
h ^ 
varie se described in this work under the name of ous. 
within; corolla somewhat rotate- | 
| precox (w 
OF GARDENING, . 
YAM. See Dioscorea. 
YANG-MAE-TREE. A common name for Myri 
Nagi (which see). 
YARROW. A popular name for Achillea (which . 
YARROW, SOLDIERS. applied in 
Stratiotes aloides (which see). 
YATE: OR YEIT TREE. A common name for 
Eucalyptus cornuta (which see). 
YELLOW ARCHANGEL. A name applied to 
Lamium Galeobdolon (which see). 
YELLOWBY. A common name for Chrysanthe- 
mum segetum (which see). 
YELLOW CRESS. A popular name for Barbarea 
see). 
YELLOW ELDER. See Tecoma stans. 
YELLOW EVERLASTING. See Helichrysum 
arenarium. 
YELLOW-EYED GRASS (of North America). 
See Xyris. 
YELLOW GARDEN HAWK WEED. 
Tolpis barbata. 
YELLOW IRIS. See Iris Pseudo-acorus. 
YELLOW LARKSPUR. See Tropeolum. 
YELLOW RATTLE. Se Rhinanthus Crista- 
YELLOW ROCKET. Se Barbarea vulgaris. 
YELLOW SLUG (Limar flavus). In its habits 
this Slug differs from the other Slugs (which see), 
as it very frequently lives in cellars and other GN 
places in towns. During the day it lies concealed; e"? 
at night it goes in search of its food, and shows -— s 
very partial to cooked articles. Though it prefers pota; = 
and other vegetables, it will readily eat any kind of e 
The Yellow Slug may also be found in gardens an " 
woods; and where one occurs, others are aep , 
as it is gregarious in its habits. It may reac 
of 4in. Mo Me. but is usually found of a on 
size. The body is yellowish, spotted with dark P e 
and is covered with numerous short, longitudinal ri ve? 
There is a distinct keel on the upper surface of He ber? 
Other Slugs also are often more or less yellow in co Mo 
but the size, habits, and markings of L. flavus will en e 
to distinguish it from them. The remedies recommentf 
A name 
See 
| under Slugs are applicable against this species. 
five, affixed to the staminal | 
| 
| 
YELLOW STAR FLOWER. ‘ee Sternbergia 
lutea. 
YELLOW STAR OF BETHLEHEM. 
Gagea lutea. 
YELLOW SULTAN. Se Centaurea suaveolens. 
YELLOW UNDERWING. ‘ec Tryphena. 
u- 
YELLOW-WEED, DYER'S. Se Reseda H 
teola. p 
YELLOW WOOD. A name applied to Cladrastis "i 
toria, Ochrosia borbonica, several species of Podocarpus, 
YELLOW-WORT. See Chlora. ` 
YEVERING BELLS. A common name for Pyrola 
secunda (which see). 
YEW. See Taxus. 
of the Yew (ert? 
YEW-BUD GALLS. Tho buds of the Yon et 
baccata) are liable to be injured by a Gal “1 Tazi) 
also by a Gall Mite. The former (Cocidom 
See 
