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THE DICTIONARY. OF GARDENING, 
American Plants—continued. : 
constitution, indeed, any hardy flowering shrubs requiring 
a moist peat border. 
AMERIMNON (from a, privative, and merinna, care; 
in allusion to the little attention the plant requires; name 
originally applied to the House- -leek). Syn. Amerimnum. 
ORD. Leguminose. Ornamental evergreen stove shrubs, 
with alternate, stalked, ovate, somewhat cordate, simple 
leaves. Of easy culture, thriving best in a rich loamy soil; 
the young cuttings, not deprived of their leaves, root 
readily in sand under a hand glass, in heat. 
A. Brownei (Browne’s).* fl. white, sweet scented ; peduncles 
-axill Wer owered, glabrous or puberulous. May. l. ovate, 
te, acute, glabrous. A. 6ft. to 10ft. Jamaica, 
rellis or other support. 
> Ha ak (strigulose). ff. white; racemes axillary, soli- 
tary, three times longer than the petioles, May. J. ovate, rather 
cordate, obtuse, clothed with adpressed hairs on both surfaces : 
branches and petioles clothed with light brown, dense, short 
hairs. A. 6ft. to 10ft. Trinidad, 1817. 
AMERIMNUM. See Amerimnon. 
AMHERSTIA (commemorative of Countess Am- 
herst, a zealous promoter of natural history, particularly 
botany). ORD. Leguminose. A stove evergreen tree of 
almost unsurpassed magnificence and brilliancy, requiring 
a very high and moist temperature. It delights in a rich 
strong loam, and may be propagated by cuttings of the 
half-ripened wood, in sand, under a glass, in bottom heat of 
about 80deg.; also by seeds. + 
A. nobilis (noble).* 7. of a fine vermilion colour, diversified with 
Pes spots, large; racemes long, pendulous, ‘axillary. May. 
e, impari-pinnate, bearing six to eight pairs of leaflets, 
h. t. to 40ft. India, 1837. The flowers are, unfortunately, 
somewhat ephemeral, lasting but a few days in perfection, during 
„which period, however, no object in the whole range of the vege- 
“rad presents a more striking aspect, than this tree. 
(commemorative of J. B. Amici, a celebrated 
ench. physician). ORD. Leguminosae. retty green- 
house or half-hardy perennial, iaer E any warm, 
Young cuttings will root in sand under a 
ey 
e d spot. . 
at ghis in héat. This very desirable plant is valuable — 
ow of its flowering late in the autumn, 
two-jointed-podded).* llow, splashed with 
wp i uae so anita Lag per to six: owered. 
a Gaon a ammos, sand, and bio, t 
reference to the sandy soil in which it is foun 
Composite. This well-known everlasting is closely allied 
_ to Gnaphalium, from which it differs principally in habit. 
with oblong, pointed, toothed, chaffy scales; 
-involucre of. imbricated leaflets. It may be treated as 
~ @ half-hardy annual, or as a biennial, if seeds are sown 
in September and kept ‘fn a cool greenhou during the 
winter, and this is the best way to grow it. we moderately 
ve; in 
ORD. 
« 
> 
€ fl 3 about an inch across, of a silvery 
: exception of the paor p: florets, Bpr 
e ccrymbose ; les. May tember, 
3 a tufted roan s Stems wi er 
Holland, 1 
ordinary soil, il, with good drainage, and is propagated by 
layers and seeds. 
Simons noses f. pi 
d 
leaflets Inceola gp 
1837. 
s Sky wh on both surface. iat. 
with two on of cordate 
ate ess Pach an are fal ad luei esand 
anges w si Mexico, 
a (narrow-leaved).* jl, sometimes of a uniform” 
AMMODENDRUM. See ‘Ammodendron. 
AMMYRSINE. See Leiophyllum. 
AMOMOPHYLLUM. See Spathiphyllum. 
AMOMUM Pe, not, and mame. im 
reference to the quality ie a 
Zingiberacee. Stove deciduous peren ials, 
chiefly aromatic, formerly used in pay Flowers 
produced close to the ground, in spikes or clusters, brac- 
teate. Leaves distichous, shéathing at the base, lanceo- 
late, entire. - For culture, see Alpinia. 
e yellow, sometimes crimson, with the labellum of a yellow | 
colour, more or less pale, and sometimes entirely crimson ; seape — 
ed, from. a> to din. i in length ; spike capitate. July. L linear 
owen Bre Sft. Madagascar, 
A. Gardamonum (cardamom).* | jt. brownish ; lip three-lobed, 
er, flexuose Procumbent,” August. 
Hast indies, 1823. : 
ng from the m of 
long. h. 2}ft. Wester Africa, a, 
diflorum (large-flowered whi 
“fie short. “June. Ipc lancet pointed. "ht nate m 
