ADDITIONAL SPECIES 



The first volume of this Cyclopedia was published in 

 March, 1914. The lists of plants on which it was 

 founded were brought down to the close of 1912, and it 

 wa> to this date, as stated on page xi, that the Cyclo- 

 pedia undertook to cover its task, although subsequent 

 introductions have been inserted up to the closing of 

 the pages so far as possible and as the information has 

 come to hand. Undoubtedly some names were over- 

 looked. Four years and more have passed since the 

 original lists were prepared, and cross-referenced back 

 and forth throughout the letters of the alphabet. 

 ^yithin this time, species have been introduced to cul- 

 tivation within the United States and Canada, and 

 which may now be described. The present list is not 

 complete for the subtropical parts, and probably not 

 all the introductions have been discovered for the 

 other parts. The commerce in plants is incessant, and 

 the situation is never at rest. 



The consultant will probably be disappointed in not 

 finding some of the well-advertised binomials in either 

 the body of the Cyclopedia or this Supplement. The 

 Editor has a long list of such names, but, without the 

 plants themselves before him, he cannot know what the 

 names mean. They are such as have no botanical 

 standing, and the descriptions in the catalogues do not 

 identify them. Probably some of these binomials 

 represent generic and varietal names, with the species- 

 name omitted. This is a prevalent but very faulty 

 practice, as it obscures all relationships and plunges 

 the subject into confusion. So long as this practice 

 prevails, it is impossible to make clear identification 

 of cultivated plants. 



Only in one group does there appear to have been 

 any marked extension of species, and this is in the wil- 

 lows i.Salix). Some of the very attractive Chinese and 

 other willows are very recently offered, and the account 

 of that genus is therefore much extended. The addi- 

 tions in the willows are made by Alfred Rehder, as are 

 also the additions and modifications in all the articles 

 originally prepared by him. 



ABIES. Page 172. 



Delavayi, Franch. (Ketdeeria Fabri, Mast.). (After 

 No. 11 in the treatment of Abies.) Tall tree, to 120 

 ft.: young branches yellowish or reddish brown, lus- 

 trous, usually glabrous: winter buds obtuse, resinous: 

 Ivs. spreading, crowded, usually blunt and emarginate, 

 strongly recurved at the margins, silvery white below, 

 %-! in. long: cones oblong-ovate to oblong-cylindric, 

 usually truncate, deep violet, about 23/2 in. long; bracts 

 usually slightly exserted. W.China. G.C. in. 39:212 

 (as A. Fargesii on p. 213). 



Faxoniana, Rehd. & Wilson. (After Xo. 11.) Tall 

 tree, to 120 ft.: young branches brownish villous: win- 

 ter buds obtuse, very resinous: Ivs. crowded, distich- 

 ously spreading, linear, short-pointed or obtuse to 

 emarginate, J-4-1 in. long, silvery white beneath: cones 

 ovoid or ovoid-oblong, usually truncate violet-purple, 

 about iy<i in. long; bracts exserted. W. China. 



recurvata, Mast. (After Xo. 11.) Tall tree, to 120 

 ft.: young branches pale yellowish gray, lustrous, gla- 

 brous: winter bud slightly pointed, very resinous: Ivs. 

 crowded, spreading or recurved, sometimes falcate, 

 pointed, bright green or glaueescent, of about the same 

 color on both sides, about } jjin. on fruiting branches, 

 about 1 in. long and more pointed on young plants: 

 cones oblong-ovoid, usually flattened at the apex, 



violet-purple before maturity, later gray-brown, about 

 3 in. long; bracts not exserted. W. China. 



squamita, Mast. (After Xo. 11.) Tall tree, to 120 

 ft.; bark purplish brown, exfoliating in thin flakes like 

 the river birch: young branches brown, glabrous: 

 winter buds obtuse, very resinous: Ivs. very crowded, 

 ascending, mucronate or obtuse, often falcate, glaucous 

 below while young, becoming nearly green, J/2-1 in. 

 long: cones oblong-ovoid, obtuse, violet, 2-3 in. long; 

 bracts slightly exserted. W. China. G.C. III. 39:299. 

 Very remarkable for its bright purplish brown bark, 

 scaling off in thin flakes. It has violet-purple resinous 

 cones, and short relatively broad leaves. 



ALEURITES. Page 245. 



montana, Wilson, is a new wood-oil tree recently 

 intro. from China, and related to A. Fordii, but with 

 the staminate and pistillate fls. tending to be in sepa- 

 rate infl., the latter racemose and the fr. egg-shaped 

 with 3 longitudinal and many transverse ridges. 



AMPELOPSIS. Page 278. 



Watsoniana, Wilson (Vitis leemdes, Veitch, not 

 Planch.). (After Xo. 10.) Tall climbing shrub, with 

 slender forked tendrils, glabrous: Ivs. simply pinnate; 

 Ifts. 5, stalked, ovate to ovate-oblong, acuminate, 

 rounded at the base, remotely serrate, bright green 

 above, glaueescent beneath, 3-4 }/ in. long: fls. and frs. 

 not known, but probably not much different from 

 those of A. leeoides to which this species is closely 

 related, but easily distinguished by the always simply 



S innate Ivs. with fewer and larger Ifts. Cent. China. 

 .U.S. 28:295, figs. 95, 96, erroneously cited under A. 

 leemdes on p. 278 of this work. 



ANGOPHORA. Page 288. 



intermedia, DC. (Metrosideros floribiinda, Smith, 

 not Hort.). Tree, described by Bentham as having 

 rough persistent fibrous bark, the parts nearly or quite 

 glabrous: Ivs. lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, distinctly 

 stalked, 2-4 in. or more long, sharply acuminate: fls. 

 rather small, in loose corymbs or trichotomous pani- 

 cles; calyx about 2 lines long or longer, with 5 prominent 

 ribs, the teeth short-subulate. Austral. In Calif, 

 said to be a very fine drought-resisting shade and 

 avenue tree. 



lanceolata, Cav. Described in Calif, as a medium- 

 sized white-fld. tree; by Bentham said to be "a tree of 

 considerable size," with bark deciduous in large smooth 

 flakes, the parts glabrous or essentially so: Ivs. lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, 3-5 in. long, distinctly petiolate, with 

 numerous parallel pinnate veins: fls. in rather dense 

 terminal clusters, larger and denser than in A. inter- 

 media; calyx about 3 lines long, the teeth shorter and 

 thicker than in A. intermedia. Austral. 



AQUILEGIA. Page 339. 



akitensis, Huth. St. erect, branched above: radical 

 and lower cauline Ivs. twice ternate, uppermost cauline 

 Ivs. simple, narrowly lanceolate: sepals oval, longer 

 than the Umb of the petals, pale purple when dry; 

 petals with a rather straight spur, limb subtruncate, 

 pale yellow. Japan; intro. as an alpine species, with 

 blue-and-yellow fls.; the author of species does not 

 state its relationships. 



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