BOWIEA 



no Ivs. except two small, linear, erect scales at the apex 

 of the bulb, which quickly vanish. The Ivs. show its 

 relation to Drimia and Scilla. 



volilbilis, Harv. Fig. 2.53. Perianth 6-cleft to the base : 

 segments incurved at the tips. S. Afr. B.M. 5619.— 

 Sold by Reasoner Bros., Oneco, Fla. , and cult, in botanic 

 gardens with cactus-like Euphorbias and other curi- 

 osities. , 'W. M. 



Boiriea volubilis is a useful plant for twining on the 

 supports of a moderately warm greenhouse, and is of 

 the easiest possible culture. Propagation is effected by 



253. Bowica volubihs, 



seeds, or occasionally by the natural division of the 

 bulbs. The season of growth iisually begins about the 

 first of October, when the bulbs should be repotted in 

 any light, rich soil, and kept well watered until the 

 stems begin to mature, which usually occurs in May, 

 when water should be gradually withheld, and the 

 plants stored away in some shaded part of the green- 

 house and kept quite dry until the season of growth 

 begins again. Edward J. Canking. 



BOX. See Biixus. 



BOX ELSEB {Acer Negiindo, which see). Fig. 25-1. 

 A very popular small native tree for planting on the 

 prairies and in trying climates. It propagates most 

 readily from seeds. It is an excellent nurse tree for 

 other species. The wood is of inferior quality. It grows 

 with great rapidity for a few years. 



BEACHYCHaiTA (Greek, short bristle). Compdsitce. 

 One species, growing in open woods from Ky. to N. C. 

 and Ga. Closely allied to Solidago, from which it differs 

 in the very short pappus (the bristles shorter than the 

 akene), and the lower Ivs. cordate. B, cordita, Torr. & 



BRAHEA 175 



Gray, which has been int. by dealers in native plants, 

 is 2-.3 ft. high, soft-pubesceiit, with thin, serrate Ivs.: 

 fis. golden yellow, in small heads, which are borne on 

 raceme-like secund branchlets. Recommended for the 

 native border. 



BKACHYCOME {ahort 

 hair, from the Greek, al- 

 luding to the pappus). 

 Coinpdsitw. Australian 

 herbs, with membrana- 

 ceous involueral bracts, 

 naked receptacle, very 

 short pappus bristles, and 

 diffuse leafy grovrth. One 

 species in cult. : 



iberidifdlia.Benth. Swan- 

 River Daisy. Figs. 25.5, 

 256. A very graceful little 

 annual (6-12 in. high) from 

 Austral., suited to bor- 

 ders, and also attractive 

 in pots: seeds may be sown in the 

 open or under glass. Fls. blue or 

 white, an inch across: Ivs. small, 

 pinnate, with very narrow divis- 

 ions ; glabrous. L. H. B. 



BRAHEA (Tyeho Brahe, the 

 astronomer). PalmAceir, tribe 

 Coryphew. Spineless palms, with 

 medium caudices, ringed below, 

 and clothed above with the bases 

 of the fibrous sheaths. Leaves 

 terminal, orbicular, somewhat 

 peltate, tlabellate - plicate, split 

 down the middle, the lobes bitid, 

 infolded, filamentous on the mar- 

 gins; rachis short, narrow; ligule 

 subtriangular; petioles fiattened, 

 dentate along the margins ; 

 sheaths fibrous : spadices long, 

 pendulous, paniculately much 

 branched, the ultimate long ver- 

 miform obtuse branches rigid, 254. Raceme of youne 

 spreading, very densely velvety fruit of Box Elder, 

 tomentose : spathes many, long- 

 linear, firm, coriaceous, split, glabrous ; bracts and 

 bractlets minute: tis, smaller thau the diameter of the 

 branches, hidden in tlie tninentum: frs. % in. long, ob- 

 liquely ellipsoidal, minutely pubescent, laterally keeled, 

 pale when dry. Species 4, Mex. to the Andes. Of sim- 

 ple culture in a fibrous compost, with an admixture of 

 sand. Prop, by seeds. 



diilcis, Mart. Palma Dclce. Stem 10-20 ft., 6-8 in. 

 thick, cylindrical : Ivs. 4-5 ft. long ; petiole plano-con- 

 vex, green, with pale margins; ligule short, subtriangu- 



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255. Brachycome iberidif,.lij 



