352 Select Plants for Industrial Culture 



vulgaris, with gaudy and glossy coloring of the stems, in contrast 

 with the black-stemmed species of Phyllostachys from China and 

 Japan. 



Schizostachyum irratum, Steudel, 



Sunda-Islands and Moluccas. Stems to 80 feet high, remarkably 

 slender. 



Schizostachyum Zollingeri, Steudel. 



Hills of Java. Much cultivated. Height to 35 feet; stems 

 slender. 



Schkuhria abrotanoid.es, Roth. 



From Peru to Argentina. This annual herb yields locally an 

 insecticidal powder. 



Schoenocaulon qfficinale, A. Gray. (Asa-Gray a offidnalis, Lindley; Saba- 

 ditta officinalis, Brandt and Dierbach.) 



Mountains of Mexico. A bulbous-rooted herb with leafless stem, 

 thus far specially distinct from any Veratrum. It furnishes the 

 sabadilla-seeds, and yields two alkaloids, veratrin and sabadillin; 

 further a resinous substance, helonin; also sabadillic and veratric acid. 

 The generic names adopted for this plant by Gray and by 

 Dierbach are coetaneous. 



Sciadopitys verticillata, Siebold. 



The curious " Kooya-maki" or Umbrella-Fir of Japan. Becoming 

 140 feet high; pyramidal in habit. Resists severe frosts. Wood 

 white and compact. 



S cilia esculenta, Ker. (Camassia esculenta, Lindley.) 



The Quamash. In the western extra- tropical parts of North- 

 America, on moist prairies. The onion -like bulbs in a roasted state 

 form a considerable portion of the vegetable food, on which the 

 aboriginal tribes of that part of the globe extensively live. This 

 is a pretty plant, and might be naturalized on moist meadows. 



Scilla Fraseri, A. Gray. 



The Quamash of the Eastern States of North-America. Most 

 prolific in the production of its bulbs, which taste somewhat like 

 potatoes. 



Scirpus nodosus, Rottboell. 



South-Africa, extra-tropic South-America, New Zealand and extra- 

 tropic Australia. A tufty sedge with widely creeping rhizomes, 

 well fitted to bind driftsand on coasts even in saline wet places 

 (Ch. French). 



Scolymus Hispanicus, Linne". 



Countries at or near the Mediterranean Sea. The young roots and 

 tender shoots of this biennial herb serve as culinary vegetable; much. 



