3470 



VIGUIERA 



VINCA 



plant with silvery foliage and small yellow fls. like 

 single sunflowers, but borne in ample corymbs. Rays 

 fertile, or more often sterile, in wild plants sometimes 

 wanting; pappus of 2 chaffy awns: achenes usually 

 pubescent. The plant blooms both winter and summer, 

 tomentosa, Gray. Shrub or branching subshrubs: 

 lys. opposite, subcordate, serrate, tomentose on both 

 sides, 3-5 in. long: heads corymbose: achenes villous, 

 with 2 long awns and many small scales. 



N. TAYLOR.! 



VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT: Planting, Vol. V, p. 2658. 



VILLARESIA (named for Matthias Villarez, a 

 Spanish botanist). Icatinaceae. Evergreen tall climb- 

 ing trees or shrubs, adapted to the warmhouse: Ivs. 

 alternate, oblong, entire or spinulose-dentate, thick, 

 leathery, shiny: cymes small, head-like, arranged in 

 axillary or terminal racemose panicles or racemes: fls. 

 white, hermaphrodite or polygamous; calyx 5-parted; 

 petals 5, ribbed inside; stamens 5, disk inconspicuous; 

 ovary 1-celled: drupe ellipsoid. About 13-15 species, 

 distributed in the islands of the Pacific, Trop. Austral., 

 Indian Archipelago, and Brazil and Chile. 



grandiflSra, Fisch. Tree, smooth with subangular 

 branches: Ivs. sparse, petioled, coriaceous, ovate- 

 lanceolate, narrowed toward the base, apex acuminate, 

 greenish above, paler beneath: panicles terminal, clus- 

 tered: fls. sessile, small, white; calyx tubular-cam- 

 panulate, lobes 5, ovate; petals 5, spreading, lanceolate. 

 Brazil. Gt. 6:181. 



mucronata, Ruiz & Pav. (Ilex gongdnha, Mart.). 

 Tree, usually 40 ft. high, rarely 50-60 ft.: Ivs. short- 

 petioled, ovate or elliptic-oblong, apex spinulose, leath- 



apex 4-valved. About 10 species, S. Afr. and Austral. 

 V. renifdrmis, R. Br. (Menydnthes exaltata, Sims. M. 

 sarmentosa, Sims). From 6 in. to 3 ft. high: Ivs. in a 

 dense tuft on long petioles, ovate, orbicular or reni- 

 form, more or less cordate, entire or slightly sinuate- 

 dentate, mostly 1-2 in. long: fls. yellow; corolla %-l in. 

 across, lobes copiously fringed or bearded at the base 

 inside. Austral. B.M. 1029; 1328. R.H. 1909, p. 125. 



VIMINARIA (Latin, vimen, a slender twig or withe, 

 alluding to the branches). Leguminosse. Shrub, with 

 rush-like branches, adapted to greenhouse cult.: Ivs. 

 alternate, reduced to long filiform petioles or rarely 

 1-3-foliate: fls. small, orange-yellow, arranged in ter- 

 minal racemes; calyx-teeth short, equal; petals rather 

 long-clawed, standard suborbicular, wings oblong, 

 keel incurved, equaling the wings; stamens free; ovary 

 subsessile, 2-ovuled: pod sessile, ovoid-oblong, rather 

 indehiscent. One species, Austral., little known to 

 horticulturists. 



denudata, Smith. The name LEAFLESS RUSH-BROOM 

 has been proposed for this. Leafless yellow-fld. shrub, 

 attaining 10-20 ft., formerly cult, in European green- 

 houses as a small tender shrub: Ivs. 3-8 in. long: pod 

 2-3 lines long. Austral. B.M. 1190. P.M. 14:123 

 Offered in S. Calif. p\ \\r. BARCLAY. 



VfNCA (pervinca, old Latin name of periwinkle, 

 used by Pliny). Apocynaceze. Erect or procumbent or 

 trailing herbs or subshrubs, some used for bloom in the 

 flower-garden, others for decorative foliage in the green- 

 house and in window-boxes and others for permanent 

 ground-cover out-of-doors. 



Leaves opposite: fls. axillary, solitary, rather large; 

 calyx 5-parted, not glandular, lobes narrow, acuminate; 

 corolla salver-shaped, tube cylindrical, lobes 5, large, 



3933. Vinca minor, the common periwinkle, or running myrtle. (Natural size) 



ery, dark green, shining above, paler and dull beneath: 

 fls. 5-merous, in solitary shortly pubescent thyrses, ter- 

 minal or in the upper axils, yellowish white; sepals wide 

 elliptic or nearly orbicular; petals elliptic-oblong; ovary 

 by abortion 1-celled: drupe ovoid. Chile. B.M. 8376. 

 Prop, by cuttings. Rare in cult. 



F. TRACY HUBBARD. 



VILLARSIA (named for Dominique Villars, 1745- 

 1814). Gentiandceae. Marsh-loving herbs, suitable for 

 greenhouse cult.: sts. simple and leafless or somewhat 

 branched and few-lvd.: Ivs. radical, long-petioled, 

 entire or irregularly sinuate-dentate: cymes usually 

 many-fld., sometimes laxly paniculate, sometimes 

 corymbosely congested or capitate and involucrate: 

 flsj yellow or white; calyx 5-parted or deeply 5-cleft, 

 segms. lanceolate; corolla broadly campanulate or 

 rather rotate; stamens 5: caps. 1-celled, subglobose, 



twisted, overlapping to the left; stamens included, 

 above the middle of the tube; disk none; ovary 2 dis- 

 tinct carpels, glabrous: follicles 2, erect or divergent, 

 narrowly cylindrical. About 12 species, Medit. region, 

 Trop. Amer., India, and Madagascar. 



One of the commonest and best plants for covering 

 the ground in deep shade, especially under trees and 

 in cemeteries, is V. minor. It is a hardy trailing plant 

 with shining evergreen foliage and blue salver-shaped 

 five-lobed flowers about an inch across, appearing in 

 spring or early summer. It forms a dense carpet to the 

 exclusion of other herbs. It thrives best in moist half- 

 shaded positions, but will grow in the deepest shade 

 even in poor soil, especially if it is stony. It is a capital 

 plant for clothing steep banks, covering rocks, and 

 carpeting groves. It can be planted successfully on a 

 large scale any time from spring to fall durirg mild or 



