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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Picotee—continued. 
defined, when properly grown under glass, but, for ordi- 
nary purposes, the plants succeed admirably in the open 
air. Subjoined is a selection of Picotees from the several 
divisions. For details of culture, see Carnation. 
Fic. 147. PICOTEE. 
Heavy Tek aema ADMIRATION (Turner), JESSIE (Turner 
LIZZIE TOMES (Dodwell), MRS. A. e (Turned), ae 
Gane on oe ae 1 NOVELTY (Matthews), 
ackson), REDBRAES, RIVAL PURPLE (H 
(Dodwell), ZERLINA (Lord). Boren 
Heavy Red: ed, DR. Epps, ENsIGN (Fellowes), J. B. 
BRYANT (Ingram), JOHN SMITH (Bower), LORD VALENTIA (Kirt- 
land), LOTHAIR (Fellowes), Miss SMALL (Fellowes), MRS. BROWN 
(Payne), MRS. DODWELL (Turner), PICTURATA (Fellowes), PRIN- 
CESS OF WALES (Fellowes), ROBERT Scorr (Flowdy). 
Vy CONSTANCE HERON (Fellowes), EDITH 
DOMBRAIN (Turner), FANNY HELEN (Nive), 5 
(Fellowes), Louisa (Addis), Miss HORNER (Lord), MRS. PAYNE 
(Fellowes), MRS. WEBB (Fellowes), ROYAL Visit (Abercrombie). 
t ter ast es ALICE (Lord), AMY ROBSART (Dodwell 
NN LORD (Lord), _BEAUTY OF CHELTENHAM 3 
CLARA PENSON (Wilmer), EVELYN (Hewitt), HER MAJESTY 
(Addis), Mary (Simonite), MINNIE (Lord), MRS. LANGTRY 
(Fellowes), NYMPH (Lord). 
Light Red-edged. CLARA (Bower), GROSTEEN (Fletcher), MRS. 
BOWER (Bower), Mrs. GORTON (Simonite), PRINCESS MARY 
Fellowes), THOMAS WILLIAM (Flowdy), TOXOPHOLITE (Payne), 
VIOLET DOUGLAS (Simonite). 
ht Rose-edged. DOROTHY (Fellowes), EMPRESS EUGÉNIE 
(Kirtland), ESTELLE (Fellowes), ETHEL (Fellowes), EVELYN 
(Fellowes), JEANETTE (Abercrombie), LADY CaRINGTON (Aber- 
crombie), Lucy (Addis), Miss GORTON (Dodwell). 
Yellow-groun FLavius (Turner), MRS. COLMAN rner), 
PRINCE OF ORANGE (Perkins). 828 ) 
PICOTIA. A synonym of Omphalodes (which see). 
PICRADENIA. A synonym of Actinella. 
PICRIA. A synonym of Coutoubea (which see). 
Snr te A synonym of Fagræa (which 
see). 
PICRORHIZA (from pikros, bitter, and rhiza, a 
root; in allusion to the bitterness of the root). ORD. 
Scrophularinew. A monotypic genus, the species being 
a hardy, perennial, glabrous or pilose herb, the thick root 
of which is used in native Hindoo medicine. For culture, 
see Wulfenia. 
P. Kurrooa (Kurroo, native name). f. white or pale blue, 
disposed in clustered, terminal spikes, sessile in the axils of the 
bracts; calyx five-parted, the segments loosely imbricated; 
Picrorhiza—continued. 
corolla shorter than the calyx, with four broad, entire, erecto- 
tent lobes; peduncles scape-like, many-flowered, 4in. to 6in. 
igh. August. Capsule nearly šin. long, acuminate. l. sub- 
radical, oblong, crenate-serrate, 3in. to 4in. long, slightly 
wrinkled, entire at base, and gradually narrowed into a short 
petiole. Stem short. Himalayas, 1879. 
PICTETIA (named in honour of A. Pictet, 1752- 
1825, a celebrated natural philosopher). ORD. Legu- 
minose. A genus comprising half-a-dozen very glabrous, 
tropical American, ornamental, stove, evergreen shrubs. 
Flowers yellow in the axils, racemose or rarely solitary ; 
two upper calyx lobes short, obtuse, the three lower 
ones acuminate; standard sub-orbiculate, keel obtuse. 
Pods oblong or broad-linear, stipitate, compressed, inde- 
hiscent. Leaves impari-pinnate; leaflets three to many, 
mucronate or pungent, entire, exstipellate ; stipules often 
spinescent. The only two species in cultivation thrive 
in a compost of. loam and peat. Propagation may be 
effected by cuttings, inserted in sand, under a glass, in 
heat. 
P. aristata (awned). ., racemes loose, three to seven-flowered. 
June and July. J. with seven to ten pairs of obovate-orbicular, 
usually alternate leaflets, each leaflet ending in a long, straight, 
spine-like mucrone, having the lateral nerves prominent ; stipules 
spinose, spreading. h. 5ft. to 10ft. St. Domingo, 1816. Syn. 
Aschynomene aristata. 
P. squamata (scaly). f. on distant, elongated, nearly opposite 
pedicels; racemes loose, three to seven-flowered. June and July. 
l., leaflets seven to ten pairs, each ending in a long, spine-like 
mucrone; stipules spinose, erect. Branchlets with imbricated 
scales at their bases. A. 6ft. St. Thomas’s Island, 1824. SYN. 
Robinia squamata. 
PICTUS. Latin for Painted (which see). 
PIDDINGTONIA. A synonym of Pratia (which 
see). 
PIERCEA. A synonym of Rivina (which see). 
PIERIS (a name applied to the Muses, from their 
supposed abode at Pieria, in Thessaly). ORD. Ericacee. 
A genus comprising about ten species of glabrous or - 
pubescent, mostly hardy trees or shrubs, natives of the 
Himalayas, the Malayan Peninsula, Japan, and North- 
west America. Flowers white, rarely red, disposed in 
axillary or terminal, short or elongated racemes, shortly 
pedicellate, bracteate, and one or two bracteolate; calyx 
free, with five ovate, acute segments, persistent; corolla 
ovoid or cylindrical-urceolate, five-toothed, the lobes re- 
curved; stamens ten, included. Leaves alternate, petio- 
late, persistent, entire or serrulate. The species best 
known to cultivation are described below. They require 
culture similar to that recommended for Andromeda 
(which see). 
P. floribunda (bundle-flowered).* fl. pure white, produced in 
great abundance; racemes , AXİ and terminal, forming 
2 April and May. 1. ovate, oblong, acute, finely serru- 
ted, adpressedly ciliated, glabrous, coriaceous. k. 2ft. to bft. 
United States, 1812. Shrub. Syns. Andromeda floribunda (B. M. 
1566 and B. R. 807) and Leucothoé floribunda. 
P. formosa (beautiful).* fl. porcelain - white, disposed in 
terminal, branching clusters. 7. coriaceous, green, somewhat 
bullate, lanceolate or oblanceolate, very finely serrated. 1881. A 
very beautiful evergreen shrub, hardy in the southernmost parts 
of England. (G. C. n. s., xv. 569.) 
P, japonica ot mran N. white, urceolate, disposed in long, 
ndulous clusters. J. rather thick, dark green, lanceolate. 
apan. Hardy shrub. (G. C. n. s., xvii. 797.) SYN. Andromeda 
japonica (B. H., 1871, 19; Gn., Nov., 1877). 
P. mariana (Maryland). fl. white, large, nodding, in clusters 
from axillary, scaly buds; sepals leaf-like. May and June. 
l. deciduous, but rather coriaceous, oval or oblong, veiny, said to 
—— lambs and calves. h. 2ft. to Aft. North America, 1736. 
hrub. (B. M. 1759, under name of Andromeda mariana ovalis.) 
P. nitida (shining). #. white, red, or purple, odorous; corolla 
cylindrical-ovate, gibbous at base; clusters axillary, very 
numerous, six to twelve-flowered. March to May. J. ovate or 
oblong, entire, shining. Branches three-angled. h. 2ft. to 6ft. 
South United States, 1765. Evergreen shrub. (B. M. 1095, under 
name of Andromeda coriacea.) 
P. ovalifolia 83 ji. pale flesh - colour; corolla oblong, 
downy; poe unilateral, secund ; racemes lateral, numerous, 
leafy, elongated, many-flowered. May. J. oval, acuminated, 
