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Anag-allis continued. 



A. Webbiana (Webb's). JL blue ; petals with their tops slightly 



ate. h. 4in. 



denticulated. June to August. 

 Portugal, 1828. 



L several, verticfflat 



ANAGYRIS (from ana, backwards, and gyros, a circle ; 

 the pods are curved backwards at their extremities). OBD. 

 Leguminosce. A'" ornamental greenhouse or half-hardy 

 shrub, having the two stipules placed opposite the leaves. 

 It thrives in a mixture of loam, sand, and peat in equal 

 proportions. Young cuttings should be planted in July in 

 a pot of sand, and placed under a hand glass. 



A. fcetlda (fcetid). JL yellow, hairy, like those of the Laburnum ; 

 racemes short May. L trifoliate ; leaflets lanceolate, acute, 

 entire, h. 6ft. to 8ft, South Europe, 1750. This shrub is foetid 

 in every part when bruised. 



ANALOGY. Resembling a thing in form but not in 

 function; or vice versd. Corresponding with a thing in 

 many points, but differing in more, or in points of more 

 importance. 



ANANAS (from nanas, the South American name 

 for the Pine Apple). SYN. Ananassa. Pine Apple. OBD. 

 Broineliacece. Stove herbaceous perennials, having the 

 berries collected with the bracts into a compound fruit. 

 Leaves rigid ; edges spiny. The variegated form is a 

 useful plant for decorative purposes, and may be employed 

 without the usual harmful consequences attending stove 

 plants generally, but it must not be subjected to cold 

 draughts. The soil should consist of two parts fibrous 

 loam, one of peat, one of dung and leaf mould, and another 

 of sand. Those propagated from suckers, which should 

 be laid by a day or two and then inserted in a strong heat, 

 have, as a rule, longer and lighter-coloured leaves. Offsets 

 are often produced at the base of the fruit, and make stout 

 plants, with high-coloured foliage. When the plants are 

 potted in spring, plunge them in bottom heat, to hasten 

 their growth ; but this is not absolutely necessary. Should 

 it be desired to fruit the variegated form, the plants may 

 be submitted to the same process of culture as detailed 

 under Fine Apple (which see). 

 A. bracamorensis (Bracamora). Brazil, 1879. 

 A. bracteata (bracted). JL crimson. April h. 3ft. Brazil, 



1820. 

 A. lucida (shining). *. pink. April, h. 3ft South America, 



1820. 



A. macrodonta Oarge-toothed).* JL. reddish, tinted buff ; spike 

 elongate-ovoid, with imbricating dentate bracts. Jr. conical, 

 about 8in. long and 4in. wide, with conspicuous bracts, and highly 

 perfumed. L with conspicuous teeth. 1878. SYN. Bromelia 

 undulata. 



A. Mordilona (Mordilona; native name). Jr. large, with a fine 

 aroma. L distinguished in being without spines. Columbia, 

 1869. 



A. Porteana (Porter's).* L armed on the margins with sharp 

 spines, deep olive green, with a broad band of pale yellow running 

 down the centre from base to apex. This species has a somewhat 

 erect habit of growth. Philippines, 1866. 



A. satlva (cultivated). Pine Apple. For culture, see Pine Apple. 

 A. s. variegata (variegated).* 1. rosulate, finely arched, 2ft. or 

 3ft. long, serrated on the edges ; centre bright green, sometimes 

 with a few lines of white, broadly margined with rich creamy- 

 yellow, tinged with red towards the margins. A very elegant 

 variegated plant for vases, <fcc. 

 ANANASSA. See Ananas. 



ANANTHEE.IX (from a, without, and antherix, an 

 awn ; there are no horn-formed processes from the base of 

 the leaflets of the corona, as in Asclepias, to which it is 

 closely allied). OBD. Asclepiadea. A small genus of 

 pretty, hardy herbs. A. viridis is of easy culture in an 

 open situation, and light soil. Increased by division of 

 the root ; or by seeds, which ripen in abundance. 

 A. viridis (green). Jl. purplish-green, large ; corolla sub-cam- 

 panulate, five-cleft; umbels prcx ' 



proceeding from the stem, sub- 



pance, ew-owere. ugust. I. opposite, sessile, obovate- 

 oblong, pointed, smoothish. A. 1ft North America, 1812. 

 ANAFELTIS. Included under Polypodium. 

 ANAB.B.HINUM (from o, without, and rhin, a 

 snout ; the corolla being without a spur, or furnished with 

 a very short one). OBD. ScrophularinecB. Elegant little 



Anarrhinum continued. 



half-hardy biennials or perennials allied to Antirrhinum. 

 Flowers small, drooping, in long spike-formed, twiggy, and 

 interrupted racemes. Radical leaves usually in a rosette ; 

 stem and branch leaves palmate-parted, or toothed at the 

 apex ; superior ones quite entire. They are of easy culture 

 in ordinary garden soil; seed may be sown outside in 

 spring, or they can be increased by growing cuttings, but 

 they require protection during severe weather. 

 A. bellidifolium (Daisy-leaved).* JL white, or pale blue ; racemes 



slender, elongated. June. L radical ones spathulate or obovate- 



lanceolate, deeply toothed ; branch leaves deeply three to seven- 



parted. A. 2ft. South Europe, 1629. 

 A. Durixninium (Douro). A synonym of A. Jiirsutum. 

 A. fruticosum (shrubby). JL white, without a spur. July. I. 



lower ones mostly tridentate at the apex ; superior ones oblong, 



quite entire, h. 2ft. to 3ft. South Europe, 1826. Shrubby. 

 A. hlrsntum (hairy). JL whitish, a little larger than those of 



A. bettid\folium, of which it is, perhaps, only a downy variety. 



A. 1ft to 2ft. Portugal, 1818. SYN. A. Duriminium. 



ANASTATICA (from anastasis, resurrection; plant 

 recovering its original form, however dry it may be, on 

 immersion in water). OBD. Cruciferce. A very curious 

 and interesting little annual, the leaves of which fall off 

 from the plant after flowering, the branches and branchlets 

 then become dry, hard, and ligneous, and rise upwards and 

 bend inwards at their points. This plant has the remark - 



FIG. 85. DRY FRUITING PLA.VT OP ANASTATICA 



HlEROCHUNTINA. 



able property of resuming vitality on being placed in water, 

 after being kept in a dry state for many years. Seeds should 

 be sown in heat, in the spring, and the plants afterwards 

 potted off and plunged again in heat to hasten their growth, 



