1900 SUPPLEMENT—RECENT INTRODUCTIONS, &C. 661 
Sclerocarpus—continued. 
S. uniserialis (in one series). /l.-heads orange-yellow, slightly 
scented, solitary on long peduncles. July to October. J. large, 
ovate, acute, irregularly toothed, crenulate. Stems much- 
branched. kh. Btt. to 44ft. Texas. Half-hardy annual. Syns. 
Gymnolomia uniserialis (of gardens), Gymnopsis wniserialis, 
SCLEROTINIA DOUGLASII. See Douglas Fir 
Blight. 
SCLEROTINIA FUCKELIANA. 
Mould. 
SCLEROTINIA FHONIZ. 
in present Volume. 
SCLERRODERIS RIBESIA. 
Fungi. 
SCOLIOPUS (from scolios, tortuous, and pous, a 
foot; probably in allusion to the tortuous rhizome). ORD. 
Tiliacee. A small genus (two species) of hardy or nearly 
hardy, rhizomatous, North American perennials, closely 
allied to Medeola. Perianth deciduous ; segments distinct, 
the three outer ones broadly lanceolate, spreading, the 
three inner ones linear, erect. Leaves two at the tip of 
the stem, sessile or shortly petiolate. ‘The only species 
introduced will probably thrive under the treatment re- 
commended for Trillium. 
S. Bigelovii (Bigelow’s). jl. solitary on radical peduncles ; 
perianth seven to nine lines long, the inner segments purple, 
the outer ones green, striated with purple. February. 
Z. radical, ovate-elliptic to narrowly-oblanceolate, 4in. to 15in. 
long, spotted, sessile or narrowed at base. California. (G. C. 
1894, i., p. 267, f. 28.) 
See Velvety 
See under Peonia, 
See Gooseberry 
Fic. 665. FROND OF SCOLOPENDRIUM VULGARE CRISTATUM. 
SCOLOPENDRIUM. Scolopendriums are adapted 
for either the stove, the greenhouse, or the hardy Fernery. 
The best-known and most extensively cultivated is 
undoubtedly the common Hartstongue, S. vulgare, of which 
there are a large number of beautiful or merely curious 
forms found in gardens. They thrive best in a compost of 
a light, sandy nature, made up of two parts leaf-monld or 
peat, one part loam, and one part silver-sand, and are 
particularly useful for growing by the edge of water or 
in shady places, where it is often difficult to cultivate 
other plants with success. 
With the exception of the varieties of S. vulgare, which 
are usually and with greater certainty increased by the 
division of their crowns (and a few by means of the bnlbils 
produced on their fronds), the propagation of Scolopen- 
driums is effected by spores, which are abundantly 
produced and germinate freely. 
To the species and varieties described on pp. 393-4, 
Vol. III., the following should be added: 
S. brasiliense (Brazilian). sti. short, hairy. fronds 6in. to 
12in. long, lin. to 14in. broad, almost entire, tapering to both 
ends, coriaceous; veins intercrossing one another about two- 
thirds of the distance from the midrib to the edge. sori con- 
fined to the free veins. Brazil, 1856. Stove. SyN. Antigramme 
brasiliense. > 
S. officinale (officinal). A synonym of S. vulgare. 
S. sibiricum (Siberian). sti. 2in. to 3in. long, naked, dark 
brown below. fronds dimorphous; barren ones lin. long, 
barely in. broad, ovate, acute; fertile ones 6in. long, 
fin. broad, prolonged and rooting at apex as in S. rhizo- 
phyllum, but narrowed at base. sort linear or oblong. Siberia, 
Scolopendrium—continued. 
Japan, &e. This hardy species should be grown in a vertical 
SYN. Camptosorus 
position amongst stones, in a shady spot. 
stbiricus. 
Fic. 666. FROND OF SCOLGPENDRIUM VULGARE CRISTATUM 
VIVIPARUM, 
S. vulgare ramo-marginatum (branched, margined). 
Similar to the form Jato-digitatum, but with the contracted 
and lined character of marginatum in the leafy portion and 
elsewhere. 
S. v. scalariforme (ladder-shaped). A distinct, dwarf, seed- 
| variety, with narrow, crested fronds, recuving at the tip. 
S. v. Valloisii (Vallois’). A strong-growing variety, having 
the fronds dilated and irregularly divided and crested at their 
summit, forming large, bunch-like tufts. (R. H. 1886, p. 447, 
f. 114, unr name of S. oficinale Valloisii.) 
Fic. 667. FROND OF SCOLOPENDRIUM VULGARE GRANDICEPS. 
