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ANAGALLIS 



ANCHUSA 



obtuse and the edges finely toothed. Eu., Asia, and 

 sparingly run wild in N. Amer. Var. phcenicea, Gren. & 

 Godr. Fls. red; corolla-lobes mostly glandular-ciliate 

 at top. Var. caerulea, Gren. & Godr. (A. cseridea, 

 Schreb. A. verlicillata, AIL). Fls. blue; lobes not glan- 

 dular and slightly ciliate. Var. latifolia, Lange (A. 

 lati/6lia, Linn.). Fls. blue: Ivs. very broad: plant stout. 

 B.M. 2389. 



AA. Lvs. linear or linear-lanceolate (except perhaps in 



war. Monettii). 



linifolia, Linn. (A. angustifolia, Salisb. A. fruticdsa, 

 Vent. A. grandiflora, Andr. A. Phllipsii, Hort.). Per- 

 ennial or biennial: sts. woody at base, 1-1 H ft.: Ivs. 

 opposite or verticillate, sessile, acute, margin often 

 revolute: fls. blue, reddish underneath, the lobes obo- 

 vate, obtuse and entire. W. Medit. region. B. M. 831. 

 Var. Monellii, Knuth (A. Monellii, Linn., not Bieb. 

 A. Willmore&na, Don). Lvs. often in 3's, somewhat 

 broader (even to ovate or oblong): corolla longer. 

 Var. collina, Ball (A. colllna, Schousb.). Large, sts. 

 thick: fls. rose-colored or purplish (not blue). Var. 

 microphylla, Ball. Many-std., branches ascending: Ivs. 

 small, lanceolate: fls. blue, reddish beneath. 



L. H. B. 



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

 Written also Ananassa. Bromeliacex. 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 

 1 style. The ripe head is composed of the thickened 

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

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

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



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 fruit. 

 Better results are usually secured by severing the 

 sucker or crown, and growing a new plant. American 



194. Ananas sativus (pineapple). 



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 field. Monogr. by 

 Mez, DC., Monogr. Phaner. 9. 



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

 ture Fig. 194. 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. 



195. Ananas sativus var. variegatus. ( X H) 



tropics. B.M. 1554 (as Bromelia Ananas). B.R. 1081 

 (as A. bracteaia). There is a common cult, form (var. 

 variegatus or stratifolius). Fig. 195, with striped Ivs. 

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

 sativus, with olive-green, sharp-spined Ivs. with a yel- 

 low central band. G.W. 5, p. 51. A. cochin-chinensis, 

 Hort., is another form (intro. by Pitcher & Manda, 1891). 



A. bracteatus, Schult. f., is a showy species with red heads, all the 

 bracts being elongated, spiny and prominent. Brazil. B.M. 5025. 

 Regarded by Mez as a form of A. sativus. A. macrodtintes, Morr., 

 like a bromelia, has large toothed bracts. Brazil. A. Mardiltmut, 

 Hort., a form of A. sativus probably, has variegated spineless Ivs. 



L. H. B. 



ANAPHALIS (Greek name of a similar plant). Com- 

 pdsitx. EVERLASTING. Hardy border plant; useful for 

 immortelles. A genus of 30 species, much like Anten- 

 naria, but differs in the pappus-bristles of the stami- 

 nate fls. not being thickened (these are thickened up- 

 wards in that genus) and the st. leafy. 



margaritacea, Benth. & Hook. A foot or two high, 

 with many corymbose heads, white: Ivs. sessile, linear- 

 lanceolate, long-pointed: involucre pearly white, hence 

 the vajue of the plant as an everlasting. N. Amer. 

 and Asia. The plant from Asia, with yellow fls., is per- 

 haps better referred to A. cinnambmea, Clarke, but is 

 hardly separable from the type. It is offered as 

 a yellow everlasting. jj. TAYLOR.! 



ANARRHINUM (snoutless). Scrophulariacex. A 

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

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

 except in botanic gardens. Fls. small, in interrupted 

 spike-like racemes, white or blue. Easily grown in 

 ordinary garden soil, but not certainly hardy north of 

 New York. Known also as Simbidata. 



ANASTATICA: Resurrection Plant. 



ANCHUSA (anchousa, a paint for the skin). Bora- 

 ginacex. ALKANET. Hardy annual, biennial or perennial 

 plants, with blue or purple fls. in panicled scorpioid 

 racemes or sometimes in headlike clusters; the corolla 

 trumpet -shaped and the throat closed by scales: Ivs. 

 alternate, usually hairy. Of easy cult, in sunny position 

 except A. italica var. "Dropmore," which is best 

 suited in partial shade. Prop, by seed generally, but old 

 perennials may be root-divided in spring. 



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

 Barrelieri, Vilm. Perennial: height 2 ft.: Ivs. ovate- 

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



