FABA. See Vicia. 



FABlANA (after Francisco Fabiano, Spanish bota- 

 nist). SolancLcem. This group is a series of surprises. 

 It contains 16 species of heath-like shrubs from South 

 America. They are dwarf, erect, much branched, and E. 

 imbricata has Ivs. suggesting an arborvitae, being scale- 

 like, overlapping, and densely crowded. The flowers 

 resemble a heath in size and profusion, and their cul- 

 ture is the same as Erica. They belong to the same 

 family with the potato. The fls. are club- or funnel- 

 shaped, of 5 semi-cylindrical portions grown together 

 at the edges and crowned by a limb of 5 short, rounded, 

 spreading lobes. At present it seems to be cult, only in 

 S. Calif, and the South. Abroad it is cult, under glass 

 in winter and put outdoors in summer. 



imbricata, Ruiz & Pav. Height 3 ft. : Ivs. scale-like, 

 imbricated : tis. sessile, white. Spring. Peru, B.H. 

 25:59. 



FAGfiLIA I aftrr Caspar Fagelius). Leguminbsce. A 

 fast-gr..\\ Mil.', twilling' subshrub from S. Africa, covered 

 with (•laiiiiiix lii.ii-. and bearing all summer axillary ra- 

 cemes nf iMU-liki' IN. which are yellow, the keel tipped 

 violet. Cult, outdoors in S. Calif, and abroad under 

 glass. The pLint is allied to Cajanus, but is a genus 

 by itself, chiefly because its seeds are strophioled, pod 

 swollen, not flattened, and the 2 upper calyx lobes 

 nearly distinct. 



bitumindsa, DC. Leaflets 3. B.R. 3:261, as Glycine, 

 showing lis. also veined with red. 



FAGOP'fRUM (heech wheat, from the likeness of the 

 fruit to a beech-nut). Polygoniceat. Probably only two 

 species of Eu. and N. Asia. Quick-growing annuals, 

 with alternate deltoid or hastate Ivs., small honey- 

 scented fls. in racemes or panicles, 5-parted calyx, 8 

 stamens, 1-loculed ovary ripening into a floury, 3-an- 

 gled akene. 



e8cul6ntum, Moench. Buckwheat (which see). Fig. 

 276, p 186 Lvs large and broad long-petioled • fls 

 white m panitled or corjmbose racemes akene or 

 gram with icgular angles 



I climates and on 

 L. H. B. 



FAGUS (ancient Latin name). CiipiiUtercE,tti\i& Fa- 

 gitceie. Beech. Tall, deciduous, hardy trees, of noble, 

 symmetrical habit, with smooth, light gray bark and 



clean dark 

 sects or f'^ 

 and bLMiit' 

 every sea 



which 



rely attacked by in- 

 le most ornamental 

 (T, and attractive at 

 li the young foliage 

 graceful, drooping 

 lican and the Euro- 

 pean species an- nmcli alike, but the first has the bark of a 

 lighter color, the head is broader and more roumiish, 

 and the lvs. less shining, but turning clear vcllnw in 

 fall, while tbo latt.T has a more ,.vate lii^ad an",l sliiiiing 



foliage, wlii. li |.,.ri,- i ■.;•:; -'i l.r-'.'. n in failam; r. mains 



heads of i 



itbe 



close-graii 

 of differoi] 



cry 



:s aud for fuel; but it is not very dur- 

 able in the soil. The sweet nuts are edible, and in 

 Europe an oil is pressed from them, used for cooking 

 and other purposes. The Beech prefers dryish situations, 

 and grows best in sandy loam and in limestone soil. 

 Prop, by seeds sown in fall where there is no danger of 

 them being eaten by mice, or dried after gathering and 

 kept mixed with drj* sand until spring. The young 

 plants should be transplanted every second or third 

 year; otherwise they make long tap-roots, and cannot 

 always be transplanted successfully. The varieties are 

 grafted on seedling stock, usually in the greenhouse in 

 early spriutr ; trraftiiij; in tlip opfn ir^nally l'ivps not 



nearly entire lvs.: tls. ni.inM.M..iis. w nli tia li - . -lami- 

 nate in slender-peduucled, pendulous he:Hls appearing 

 at the base of the young shoots ; perianth 5-7-lobed; 

 stamens 8-13; pistillate with 3 .styles, usually two in an 

 axillary pednncled involucre ; fr. a brown, ovate, trian- 

 f,led nut 1 or 2 in a pricklj dehiscent involucre The 

 species of the southern hemisphere often included un 

 dtr I-i^us (IS F bttiilnidis and others) form the ge 

 uus \ ithofagus which see 



fernigmea \ir iF \iii n hii '^■x it F atjopu 



t ellon ish 



led 



ith 



igh E 

 N \niHr west to Wis and Texas S S 9 444 Em 

 is- (1-8 12-> AG 12 711 \aT latifdlia Loud, 



with 1 r idcr and larger, strongly toothed Ivs 

 "^^ sylvitica Linn European Beech Fig 804 



^l 1 t sti ft or rarel> 100 ft lvs ovate or 

 clliiJtic, remotely denticulate, silky beneath and 

 ciliate wuen young, with 5-9 pairs of veins, dark 

 green and glossy above, pale beneath, 2-4 in. 

 long : involucre with mostly upright prickles, about 

 1 in. high. M. and S. Europe to Caurasus. Fig. 804 



a..iitriists the lvs. of the . 

 ahs, A great number of 



■ r which the following an 

 heteroph;^lla, Loud. (var. 



■ Iceplv cut, often almost 



I'pean spe- 



803. Fagus ferruEinea (XK 



Tat&ricum, Gasrtn. 1 

 (which see). More slende 

 arrow-shaped, shorter-peti 

 iah, in small, simple 



iiiiilril., into narrow 

 lobes. A very graceful variety, forming a dense 

 and low, shrubby tree. Mn. l.p. 61. P.O. 3:103. Var. 

 p^ndula. Ijodd. With long, pendulous branches, the 

 lari^er limbs niostlv horizontally spreading. Gn. 55. p. 

 2i;7. (i.F. 1:32. Var. purpurea. Ait. (var. utrnpurpnrta, 

 Hort.l. Fig. 805. Lvs. purple. A form with vny dark 

 purple lvs. and of compact habit is var. purpurea Eiv- 

 ersi, Hort. There are other forms, differing in the 



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