498 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Uniola latifolia, Michaux. 



North- America. This rather tall perennial grass forms large 

 tufts, and affords valuable fodder ; it is best adapted for shady 

 woodlands [C. Mohr]. 



Uniola paniculata, Linne. 



North-Eastern America. This tall maritime grass can be chosen 

 on account of its creeping roots, to bind rolling coast-sands. 



Urena lobata, Linne. 



Intra-tropic girdle around the globe. This perennial herb has 

 recently been enumerated among plants with comparatively tena- 

 cious fibre ; it can be reared far beyond the tropics. Some congeneric 

 plants can similarly be utilized. Probably objectionable near sheep- 

 runs on account of the minute prickles of its fruits. 



TJrgrinea Scilla, Steinlieil. (Scilla maritima, Linne.) 



The medicinal Squill. Countries around the Mediterranean Sea, 

 Canary -Islands. Already ordered by Charles the Great to be grown 

 in the imperial gardens. This coast-plant needs no regular culti- 

 vation ; but settlers living near the sea might encourage its dis- 

 semination, and thus obtain the bulbs as drugs from natural locali- 

 ties. Its peculiar bitter principle is called scillitin. The bulb 

 contains 24 per cent, tannin. U. altissima (Baker) serves in South- 

 Africa as squill. 



Uvularia sessilifolia, Linne. 



North-America, in forests. This pretty herb is mentioned as 

 yielding a good substitute for asparagus. 



Vaccinium alatum, Dombey. (Thibaudia alata, Dunal.) 



Frigid regions of the Andes of Peru. A tall evergreen shrub, 

 with pink berries of the size of a cherry. This highly ornamental 

 plant could be grown in sub-alpine regions for its fruits. 



Vaccinium Arctosfcaphylos, Linne. 



From Greece to the Caucasus. The leaves, dried and slightly 

 heated, furnish the Broussa-tea, the material for a fairly palatable 

 beverage [G. Maw], possibly of medicinal value. Dr. G. Dieck 

 praises the berries as very relishable. 



Vaccinium bicolor, F. v. Mueller. (Thilaudia bicolor, Ruiz and Pavon.) 

 Cold zones of the Peruvian Andes. A high evergreen bush, with 

 red berries of about the size of a hazel-nut. All Thibaudias seem 

 best to form a section in the genus Vaccinium, some species of the 

 latter for instance, Vaccinium Imrayi (Hooker) from Dominica 

 mediating the transit. The species of the section Thibaudia, as a 

 rule, produce red berries of acidulous grateful taste. Many others 



