ANACARDIUM 



roasting being highly irritant. The tree yields a gum 

 which is the basis of a varnish, being used to protect 

 booiis and woodworli from the ravages of white ants and 

 other insects. The tree grows 20-4(3 ft. liigh. L. H. B. 



ANAGALLIS (Greeli, meaning cleligUM). PrimnU- 

 cece. Pimpernel. Annual, biennial or perennial lierbs 

 cult, in the open. In Araer. only the annual species are 

 generally known. Fls. axillary : Ivs. in pairs or 3's. 

 These are easily grown in a warm soil, the seed usually 

 being sown where the plants are to grow. The perennials 

 are prop, by division and are grown in glass houses, or 

 well protected if grown in the open. 



arvfensis, Linn. Poor Man'.s Weather-glass. Spread- 

 ing and low : Ivs. ovate, pale, shorter than peduncles : 

 fls. small, red to white, the petals fringed with glandular 

 teeth. Annual. Eu. — Often runs wild. Fls. said to 

 close on the approach of rain. 



Var. caerMea, Neilr. {A. cmrulea. Lam.). Blue fls. 

 Supposed to be more tender. 



linifdlia, Linn. More upright, a foot high ; Ivs. linear 

 or lanceolate: fls. Viin. in diam., blue. Many named 

 varieties, in various colors and habits. Biennial or per- 

 ennial, but most of the annual Anagallises of gardens 

 are supposed to be forms of it, as A. grandifldra, An- 

 drews (blue annual); A. colVina^ Schousb. (vermilion, 

 greenhouse); A. Morilli, Linn, (blue, greenhouse); 

 A. Wilmoredna, Hook (purple). S. Eu. and N. Afr. 

 B.M. 319, 831 (as A. fruticosa), 3380. -The biennial 

 forms often cult, in cool greenhouses. l jj, b 



ANANAS (modified from aboriginal S. Amer. name). 

 Written also ylHffna««a. Bromelidcete. Stove herbs, al- 

 lied to the Billbergias, and demanding the same general 

 treatment. As ornamental subjects, grown mostly for 

 the rosette of rigid Ivs. and the strange often colored 

 head of fleshy fls., which are 6-cleft, with 6 stamens and 

 one style. The ripe head is composed of the thickened 

 rachis, in which the fleshy berry is imbedded, and the 

 fleshy persistent bracts ; in the pineapple, the fls. are 

 abortive. Prop, by the leafy crown or topknot, by 

 strong suckers, or by small offsets from the base : these 

 are treated as cuttings, being rooted in sand with bottom 

 heat, or in the S. set directly in the fleld. Monogr. by 

 Mez, DC, Monogr. Phaner. 9. 



sativus, Schult. f. Pineapple, which see for field cul- 

 ture. Fig. 83. Plant producing a single shaft 2-4 ft. 

 high, and when 12-20 mos. old bearing a head or pine- 

 apple, on the top of which is a rosette of stiff Ivs. : Ivs. 

 long and sword-shaped, stiff, more or less rough-edged. 

 The same stalk does not bear a second time, but a new 

 shoot may arise from the same root and bear another. 

 Better results are usually secured by severing the 

 sucker or crown, and growing a new plant. Amer. 

 tropics. B.M. 15r)4. B.R. 1081. — There is a common 

 cult, form (var. variegAta or stratifolUt ) , with striped Ivs. 

 Gn. 51, p. 57. A. Portednus, Koch, is a form of A. aativus, 

 with olive-green, sharp-spined Ivs. with a yellow central 

 band. A. Coehincliiiihisis, Hort., is another form (in- 

 troduced by Pitcher & Manda, 1891). 



A.bractedtus, Schult. f., is a showy species with red heads, 

 all the bracts being elongated, spiny and prominent. Braz. 

 B.M. 5025. Regarded by Mez as a form of A. sativus.— ^. mac- 

 rodofites, E. Morr.,like a Bromelia, has large toothed bracts. 

 Braz.—.!. Mordilimus, Hort,.. a form of A. sati\'us probably, 

 has v.iriegated spineless Ivs. L H B 



ANAFHALIS (Greek name of a plant). Compbsitm. 

 Everlasting. Much like Antennaria, but differs in the 

 pappus-bristles of the staminate fls. not being thickened 

 (these are thickened upwards in that genus) and the 

 St. leafy. Hardy border plant ; useful for immortelles. 



margarit4cea, Binth. & Hook. A foot or two high, 

 with many coryinlxtsi' heads, white : Ivs. sessile, linear- 

 lanceolate, long-piiinted ; involucre pearly white, hence 

 the value of the jdant as an everlasting. N. states. 



ANABBHtNUM {snoutless). Scrophularicicea! . A 

 dozen biennials and perennials of S. Eu. and N. Afr. 

 Allied to Antirrhinum, but not cult, in this country. 

 Fls. small, in spike-like racemes, white or blue. 



ANASTATICA. See Resm-rection Plants. 



ANDROMEDA 61 



ANCHtSA ianchousa, a paint for the skin). Bora- 

 giu'lmr. Alkanet. Hardy plants, with fls. blue or pur- 

 pl'', in piinicled scorpioid racemes, the corolla trumpet- 

 sluiped and the throat closed by scales. Of easy cult, in 

 sunny position. Prop, by seed generally. 



83. Ananas sativus (pmeapple). 



A. Pis. small, like forget-me-nots. 



Barreli^ri, Vilm. Perennial: height 2 ft. : Ivs. ovate- 

 lanceolate, smaller and shorter than in A. Italica : fls. 

 with a white tube and pink throat. May. Eu. and Asia 

 Minor. B.M. 2349. — Valued for its earliness, and for cut 

 fls. The least common of the three species. 



Cap^nsis, Thunb. Biennial: height IK ft. : Ivs. nar- 

 rowly lanceolate and less hispid than in A. Italica : fls. 

 red-margined, with a white throat ; buds red ; calyx in- 

 flated after the fl. has withered ; divisions short, obtuse. 

 June-Sept. Cape of Good Hope. B.M. 1822. -Fine for 

 cut fls. Often winter-killed, but seeds itself freely. 

 AA. Pis. large. 



It&lica, Retz. Perennial : height 3-5 ft. : Ivs. largest 

 of the three species here contrasted, ovate-lanceolate, 

 rough, shining ; radical ones sometimes 2 ft. long. 

 Mediterranean. B.M. 2197. L. B.C. 14: 1383. -If not al- 

 lowed to go to seed, will bloom continuously from June 

 to Sept. Commonest and perhaps best species. 



A. Affdrdkii, hehm. Lvs. linear. Siberia. 'R&re.—A.myosoti- 

 difldra, Lehm. Lvs. large ; radical ones long-petiolate, cordate- 

 reniform : cauline ones sessile, oval. Siberia, Ciucasus.— A. 

 officinalis, Linn. Lvs. lanceolate : radical ones clustered : fis. 

 opening in pairs. June-Oct. Eu. B.M. 1897 is A. ofBcinalis var. 

 angustifolia. — A. sempervirens, hinn. Lvs. broadly ovate: 

 lower ones petiolate : racemes short, generally braeted at the 

 base. Eu. Esteemed in France, j g j^^^^^^ ^^^ ^ j^_ 



ANDIBA (Brazilian name). Leguminbsw. Nearly 30 

 species of tropical Amer. trees, with conspicuous fls. in 

 racemes. Two or three species are sometimes cult, in 

 hothouses in the Old World. 



ANDB6HEDA (Greek mythological name). Ericd- 

 ee(B. Low shrub, quite glabrous: lvs. small, evergreen, 

 entire, short-petioled : fls. pedicelled, in terminal umbels ; 

 corolla globose-urceolate, with 10 included stamens : 

 capsule splitting into 5 carpels, with numerous very small 

 seeds. One species through the northern hemisphere ; 

 in America from Fenn. northward, and Alaska. Low, 



