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NOTHOPANAX 



berries (R. parviflorus), salal (Gaultheria Shallon), bog 

 cranberries (V actinium Oxy coccus}, bearberries (Arctos- 

 taphylos alpina), and so on. 



Floriculture is not wholly neglected in Alaska, 

 although but few data are available. Many of the 

 hardier plants of the old-fashioned flower-garden are 

 to be seen. Pansies of great size and brilliant color are 

 common, and they remain in flower all summer. In 

 some parts of the country sweet peas do well, and 

 poppies, nasturtiums, mignonette, sweet alyssum, 

 chrysanthemums, stock, candytuft, verbenas, and 

 marigolds are not uncommon where any attempt is 

 made to grow flowers. Window gardens and boxes add 

 many sorts to the list already given. 



Among ornamental perennials that have succeeded 

 well with slight protection, or at Sitka with none, are 

 phlox, milfoil, poppies, buttercups, columbines, iris, 

 spirea, Rosa rugosa, Tartarian honeysuckle, and the 

 like. 



Experiments conducted under the direction of the 

 Office of Experiment Stations, United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, at its stations and in cooperation 

 with gardeners throughout the Territory for more than 

 twelve years, have shown that much can be accom- 

 plished in various lines of horticulture if rational 

 methods of culture and a proper selection of varieties 

 and seed are followed. The possibility of locally pro- 

 ducing seed of peas, turnips, rutabagas, mustard, and 

 potato seed tubers has been fully demonstrated, and 

 wherever such seed is planted better crops are almost 

 invariably secured. 



But little trouble has been met with from fungous 

 diseases and insect pests, except for some mildews of 

 apple, gooseberry, and currant, and from a root maggot 

 that attacks many cruciferous plants. Spraying for the 

 mildews, and rotation, and varietal selection have 

 proved valuable aids in combating the root maggot. 

 A variety of turnips, Petrowski, has proved quite 

 resistant to their attack wherever it has been tried. 



For further information, consult Yearbook of Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture for 1897; Office Experiment Sta- 

 tions, United States Department of Agriculture, Bul- 

 letins Nos. 48 and 56; Alaska Experiment Stations, 

 Bulletin No. 3, and Reports 1898 to 1914. 



WALTER H. EVANS. 



NOTHOCHL&NA: Notholxna. 



NOTHOFAGUS (Greek words, meaning not a true 

 beech). Fagacese. A genus of about 12 species, native 

 of S. Amer., Austral, and New Zeal., closely allied to 

 Fagus, but chiefly distinguished by the fls., both 

 staminate and pistillate ones being borne in 3's or soli- 

 tary. The Ivs. are generally small, often evergreen and- 

 either plicate in bud, like those of Fagus, or not. The 

 wood of some species, especially that of N. Dombeyi and 

 N. procera, in Chile, and of N. Cunninghamii, in Aus- 

 tral, is much valued. They are not hardy in the N., and 

 but little known in cult. The two following species 

 have been recently intro. by the Dept. of Agric. 

 N. obliqua, Blume (Fagus obllqua, Mirb.). Decidu- 

 ous tree, attaining 100 ft.: young branchlets glabrous: 

 Ivs. ovate-oblong, acutish or obtuse, oblique at the base, 

 serrate, lobulate below the middle, glabrous or 

 nearly so, with 8-11 pairs of veins, 1-2 J^ in. long: 

 involucre 4-valved: nuts 3, 2 triangular and 3-winged, 

 1 flattened and 2-winged. Chile. N. procera, Oerst. 

 (Fagus procera, Poepp. & Endl.). Similar to the pre- 

 ceding: Ivs. oblong, rounded at both ends, doubly 

 crenate-serrate, pubescent beneath, up to 4 in. long. 

 Chile. The following 6 species have been intro. into 

 European gardens and have proved fairly hardy in S. 

 England and Ireland. N. antdrctica, Oerst. (B.M. 8314, 

 var. uliginosa. J.H. S. 37:53), N. betuloldes, Oerst. 

 (G.C. 1872: 467; 11.25:105; 111.33:11), N. Cun- 

 ninghamii, Oerst. (B.M. 8584), N. cliff or tioides, Oerst., 

 N. fiisca, Oerst., and N. Moorei, Krasser. They are 



all trees or sometimes shrubby, with small, ovate or 

 elliptic crenate-dentate Ivs., 73-! in. long. The first 

 one is deciduous, the others evergreen. They are per- 

 haps oftener enumerated under Fagus, but besides the 

 difference in the fls. they are different in habit, especially 

 on account of their very small Ivs., large only in N. 

 procera. Prop, is by seeds or by layers. 



ALFRED REHDER. 



NOTHOL5JNA (Latin, spurious, cloak; from the 

 rudimentary indusium). Polypodiaceze. Often written 

 Nothochlsena, but the above is Robert Brown's original 

 orthography. A group of mostly warm temperate rock- 

 loving ferns, differing from Cheilanthes mainly in hav- 

 ing no marginal indusium. Some of the species are 

 coated with a golden or silvery wax-like powder. The 

 following have been advertised only once by a dealer in 

 native plants. Culture as in Cheilanthes, pages 734 

 and 1217. 



A. Foliage densely scaly beneath. 

 B. Los. once-pinnate. 



sinuata, Kaulf. Lf.-blades 1-2 ft. long, 1-3 in. wide, 

 growing on short stalks from thick, scaly rootstocks; 

 pinnae thick, entire or deeply pinnatifid; lower surface 

 with rusty scales. S. W. U. S. to Chile. 



ferruginea, Hook. Lf.-blades 6-12 in. long, J^-l in. 

 wide, growing on wiry black stalks from thick, dark, 

 scaly rootstalks; pinnse deeply pinnatifid, with blunt 

 lobes; texture thinner; lower surface densely matted 

 with wool. S. W. U. S. to W. Indies and Chile. 



BB. Lvs. 8- to 4-pinnate. 



Newberryi, D. C. Eaton. COTTON FERN. Lf.-blades 

 3-5 in. long, on stalks of the same length; ultimate 

 segms. %-% line wide, covered on both sides with slen- 

 der, entangled hairs, which are more dense on the under 

 surface. Calif. 



Parryi, D. C. Eaton. LACE FERN. Lf.-blades 2-4 in. 

 long, tripinnate, with crowded roundish obovate segms. 

 1 line wide, which are densely covered above with 

 entangled white hairs, beneath with a heavier pale 

 brown wool. Utah to Calif. 



AA. Foliage with white or yellow powder beneath. 



cretacea, Liebm. Rootstock short, with rigid scales: 

 If.-blades 1-2 in. each way, pentagonal on brownish 

 stalks 2-7 in. long; ultimate segms. oblong or triangular- 

 oblong, crowded. S. Calif, and Ariz. Less handsome 

 than the similar but larger and less divided N. Hookeri 

 of Texas to Ariz. 



Candida, Hook. Rootstock creeping : If-blades 3-6 in. 

 long, ovate or deltoid-ovate, pinnate ; lowest pinnse with 

 inferior pinnules elongated and again pinnatifid; upper 

 surface green. Texas and New Mex. 



AAA. Foliage naked below. 



tenera, Gillies (PelUea tenera, Prantl). Lf.-blades 

 3-4 in. long, ovate-pyramidal, 2-3-pinnate; pinnae dis- 

 tant, with ovate or subcqrdate, smooth, naked segms. 

 S. Utah and Calif, to Bolivia. Very rare. 



L. M. UNDERWOOD. R. C. BENEDICT.! 



NOTHOLCUS (Greek, nothos, false, and Holcus, the 

 name formerly applied to this group). Graminese. Per- 

 ennials with woolly or downy flat blades and narrow 

 panicles: spikelets 2-fld., the lower floret perfect and 

 awnless, the upper staminate and awned. Species 

 about 8, Eu. and N. Afr. 



lanatus, Nash (Hdlcus lanatus, Linn.). VELVET- 

 GRASS. Two to 3 ft. high: blades velvety: panicle 

 greenish or purple-tinged. Dept. Agric., Div. Agrost., 

 20:89. Eu. A forage grass of poor quality but of some 

 value on sterile soil. A variegated form is cult, abroad 

 for ornament. A. S. HITCHCOCK. 



NOTHOPANAX: Discussed under Polyscias. 



