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CORONILLA 



CORTADERIA 



oblong, obtuse, somewhat fleshy, scattered: fls. golden 

 yellow, in 5-7-fld. umbels: pod hanging, lance-linear. 

 S.France. B.R. 820. L.B.C. 3:235. 



minima, Linn. Glabrous, diffuse, soft gray-green 

 sub-shrub, 3 or 4 in. high, procumbent: Ifts. 7-13, ovate, 

 obtuse or retuse, scattered or at base of plant: fls. 

 golden yellow in 7-8-fld. umbels, sweet-scented. In 

 dry sands. Eu. B.M. 2179. 



glauca, Linn. Glabrous shrub 2-4 ft. high: stipules 

 small, lanceolate: Ifts. 5-7, obovate, very blunt, glau- 

 cous: fls. 7-8 in each umbel, yellow, heavy-scented. 

 S. Eu. B.M. 13. One of the common garden shrubs 

 of S. Calif., flowering all the year. There is a varie- 

 gated form. 



AA. Fls. white and pink. 



viminalis, Salisb. Trailing shrub: stipules soon 

 deciduous, ovate, membranaceous: Ifts. 13-21, obovate, 

 notched, glaucous : umbels 6-10-fld. ; fls. pale red or white 

 with a red stripe on the banner. Algeria. Promising 

 as a florists' plant for cut-fls. Fls. all the year in S. 

 Calif. 



varia, Linn. CROWN VETCH. Fig. 1070. Straggling 

 or ascending smooth herb, 1-2 ft. high: Ivs. sessile; 

 Ifts. 11-25, oblong or obovate, blunt and mucronate, 

 H-%in. long: peduncles longer than Ivs.; fls. in dense 

 umbels, Y^va.. long, pinkish white. June-Oct. Eu. 

 B.M. 258. Gng. 5:337. Trailing plant for hardy 

 herbaceous border. JARED G. SMITH. 



L. H. B.f 



CORREA (after Jose Francesco Correa de Serra, 

 Portuguese author, 1750-1823). Rutacex. Tender 

 Australian shrubs, rarely cultivated under glass. 



1070. 



Coronilla varia. 



(XM) 



1071. Correa alba. 



(XK) 



Shrubs, usually with dense, minute, stellate hairs: 

 Ivs. opposite, stalked, entire, and with transparent 

 dots: fls. rather large, showy, red, white, yellow or 

 green, usually pendulous, solitary or 2 or 3 together; 

 petals and sepals each 4; stamens 8: carpels 4, nearly 

 distinct. Seven species. C. speciosa is probably the 



best and most variable species. It is a native of barren 

 sandy plains, and belongs to the large and much- 

 neglected class of Australian shrubs. 



speciosa, Ait. (C. cardindlis, F. Muell.). Tender 

 shrub, 2-3 ft. high: branches slender, brown, opposite, 

 covered with 

 minute rusty 

 hairs: Ivs. oppo- 

 site, about 1 in. 

 long, elliptic, 

 about a fourth 

 as wide as long, 

 wrinkled, dark 

 green above, 

 whitish below, 

 margin entire, 

 recurved : pe- 

 duncles oppo- 

 site, axillary, 

 longer than the 

 Ivs., 1-fld., with 

 a pair of leafy 

 bracts; fls. 1^ 

 in. long, pen- 

 dent, tubular, 

 bright scarlet, 

 with a very short 

 limb of 4 spread- 

 ing, greenish 

 yellow segms. ; 

 calyx small, cup- 

 shaped, with 4 

 almost obsolete teeth; stamens 8, exserted, about %'m. 

 B.M. 4912. There are several varieties. 



alba, Andr. Fig. 1071. A compact and much-branched 

 shrub, 3-4 ft., the branches rusty-tomentose: Ivs. 

 variable, orbicular to obovate or elliptic, very blunt, 

 y%-\ in. long: fls. white or pink, 2 or 3 together, not 

 over y^m. long, and not so showy as preceding. B.R. 

 515. Offered in S. Calif. WILHELM MILLER. 



N. TAYLOR.! 



CORTADERIA (from Cortadero, the native name in 

 Argentina). Graminese. PAMPAS-GRASS. Large reed- 

 like perennials with numerous long, narrow blades and 

 a large striking plume-like inflorescence. Species six, 

 South America. See Gynerium. 



argentea, Stapf (Gynerium argenteum, Nees). PAM- 

 PAS-GRASS. Culms numerous, in large thick tussocks, 

 3-6 ft. high, excluding the panicle: Ivs. mostly basal, 

 the upper sheaths gradually elongated; blades firm, 

 long and slender, very scabrous on the margins, %-% 

 in. wide, tapering to a slender point: panicle large, 

 compact, 1-3 ft., silvery white or in cult, varieties 

 tinged with purple, dioecious; spikelets 2-3-fld., the 

 pistillate silky with long hairs, the staminate naked; 

 glumes white and papery, long and slender; lemmas 

 bearing a long slender awn. A.G. 14:323. G. 1:412. 

 G.C. III. 40:295; 43:195. Gn. 62, p. 346; 66, p. 

 375. G.W. 3:415. Gn.W. 5:85; 23:20. J.H. III. 

 35:483; 49:27. R.H. 1862, p. 150. V. 3:369, 391. 

 S. Brazil and Argentina. C. Ldmbleyi foliis variegdtis, 

 Hort. G.C. III. 25:335, appears to be a form of C. 

 argentea. 



Quila, Stapf (Gynerium Quila, Nees. G. jubdtum, 

 Lem. G. arcuato-nebulosum, Hort.). Differs from pam- 

 pas-grass in the rather laxer, more graceful plume, with 

 longer, more flexuous, nodding branches, somewhat 

 smaller spikelets, and more delicate glumes, and in the 

 longer, very slender staminodes of the pistillate fls.: 

 plume lavender-colored, l-2ft. long, the spikelets 3-5-fld. 

 B.M. 7607. G.C. III. 26:102. Gn. 15, p. 179; 55, p. 93. 

 R.H. 1885, p. 200; 1899:52, 53. Grows in a dense tuft; 

 perennial, but with biennial culms; the plant has been 

 killed by a temperature of 3 F. Intro, by Lemoine, of 



