OSTROWSKIA 



A dark blue variety was thought to exist, but unfortu- 

 nately nothing of the kind has been seen in cultivation. 

 Altogetheritisa very singular plant.with its great fleshy 

 roots, sometimes 2 ft. long, its whorled Ivs., and the 

 conspicuous pores of the capsule, which are twice as 

 numerous as the s.-i.:ils-a s.-iieri.- .■haraoter. Unlike 

 Platycodon, its l\-. :ui' m. ml.i .ui.u- :\w\ light green. 

 It is the only -I' ' ' i genus Ostrow- 



skya is closi- h' ' ini^uished by the 



whorled Ivs. ami : ' t ; m ii-'ally greater. 



The Giant 11,11 "rkpil. jierfectly 



drained, sanilv ; - ,i, i: iim tlir |.|ants go 



torest and noili : limu ml. Their 



place should i" ,11 ; | 1 ir.t the brittle 



roots from canli -- .|iL.;ihL' i im ,ii 1 -uiiiini'i-s and au- 

 tumns seem to suit tin- plants ^\■ell. but frequently in a 

 moist October growth starts and this seriously weakens 

 the old plants. When only a few plants are grown, a 

 tight board covering will be found convenient for keep- 

 ing the roots dry and dormant. For winter protection 

 it is advisable to give a liberal covering of litter. Ex- 

 cessive moisture will destroy the crown. Flowering 

 specimens can hardly be expected within 4 years from 

 seed, and .seeds are slow to germinate unless fresh. 

 Nurserymen now propagate the plant by cuttings of 

 the young growths taken with a heel in spring; ama- 

 teurs by root-cuttings. 



magnifica, Regel. Giant Bell-flower. Tall, strict, 

 glabrous herb, with tuberous roots: Ivs. in distant 

 whorls of 4 or 5, ovate, toothed, short-stalked, 4-6 in. 

 long: calyx-lobes 2 in. long, spreading or recurved: 

 floral parts 5-9, usually 7: style large, thick, vellow. 

 Eastern Bokhara, at 7,000 ft. Gn. 34:081; 52,"p- ^l. 

 B.M. 7472. G. P. 6:276. A.F. 4:331. V. 11:305. G.M. 

 31:4.59. 461. R.H. 1893:472 and p. 473; 1888, p. 344. 

 I. H. 35:71. G.C. III. 4:05. S.H. 1:437. 



J. B. Keller and W. M. 



OSTRYA lan.'i.-nt name). Ciipnlifene. Ostrija Vir- 

 fliiiii-a, iM>niinunly known in America as Hop Hornbeam, 

 Ironwiiud or Lt-verwood, is a small- to medium-sized 

 tree, with birch-like foliage, slender yellow male cat- 

 kins borne in spring, and female catkins which look 

 like clusters of hops, and ripen in July and August. In 



OTHONNA 



1179 



vated plant until it has borne fls. and fr., and thus en- 

 abled us to determine its exact botanical position. In 

 foliage it resembles very much /. iiitegra, and it may 

 probably prove to be this species when the fruits are 

 known. The Olhera Japonica of Thunberg as figured 



f^''-^"- Alfked Kehder. 



Othera Japonica, a very beautiful ornamental ever- 

 green shrub or small tree, is well established in several 

 Florida gardens. In the late E. H. Hart's garden, at 

 Federal Point, Fla.. fben- i^ a small, bushv, d.ns.' tree, 



the eastern states the Ho 

 about 15 to 18 ft. high, 

 much higher, sometin 

 beautifully furrowed, 

 but is not common. < 

 ponica, Sarg., have pr. 



llornln-am usually grows 

 '■ West it grows 

 I. The bark is 

 - a wide range, 

 "p., and O. Ja- 

 Arnold Arborc- 



about 22 feet high, 

 dantly. Two pla 

 land, the other ; 



OTHONNA (ancient Greek name, of no particul 

 application here). Compisitw. About 80 South Afric 

 herbs and shrubs, of which one (Fig. 1598) is in genei 

 cultivation ,as a window-irar.hn plant. Th.- lic:..ls ii 

 usuallv v.-llo„-, with f.rlih. rav. a,al .t.rilr tuln.l 

 disk fl'or.'.ts: l..n,s r.mv.s ,„■ soni.-wl,a! ,:„n.-:,\. u-na 



or less uniti-d t.. tin' lia-r, \ -ih air ■ ^1 v [,• ,,i' ,ii-i, 1 

 not divided ; akian - i,^,!, w n li ),i i 1 ,, ! •: , : :ii,;,;ts 

 many rows or serir-, 1 MiK ,,,!,. .|,, , . ,•., ,.,,,; 



pears to be in grli.Tal milln.al ..n. :■. Ii.i II,-. 



tablished vernacular nanir in lin^, 1 1 . , ,1 lilruiL-li 



is sometimes dubbed "Little Pickles" bi-oausc of 

 cylindrical, pulpy leaves. 

 The plant shown in Fig. 1598 is commonly known 



Ostrya is a genus of 4 species— the following, one in 

 southwestern U. S., one in Eu. and Asia and one in Ja- 

 pan. Catkins borne with the Ivs. or before: males 

 drooping, sessile at the ends of branchlets of the pre- 

 vious year, their fls. solitary in the axil of each bract; 

 females terminal, solitary, erect, their fls. 2 to each 

 bract, enclosed by a bractlet, which in fruit enlarges 

 into a fl.iscd membranous bladder: male fls. without 

 brarfl,!^; stigmas 2: nut compressed, sessile in the 

 liusr ,if ihe l)ladder-like sac. 



Virginica, Willd. Fig. 1597. Lvs. ovate or oblong- 

 ovate, acuminate, doubly serrate : bladders 6-8 lines 

 long, 4-5 lines wide in fruit; female catkins lH-2}4 in. 

 long. Drv woods. Cape Breton to Minn., south to Fla. 

 and Tex. S.S. 9:445. B.B. 1:507. Gn. 24, pp. 230, 231. 



C ^l 



OSWEGO TEA. .Vominla ilidijn 

 OrnfiRA Jap6nlca, in 



1 by Berckmans. An- 

 lb, with obovate or ob- 

 i- or nearly so, and 2-3 

 loubt that it is aspecies 

 . does not agree exactly 

 with th.' li.-nr.- _-i 11 li\ Thunberg of his 0../n7)o»i>«, 



whi.'h \v I - li iitly referred to Ilex by Sprengel 



undi r ' / ■'■Inra. In none of the more recent 



publi.Mi I I lapancse flora, however, is either 



name imniimi.l, an.l it is likewise omitted in the 

 monograph of II.n by Maximowicz. As the genus 

 Othera has no botanical standing it is perhaps the best 

 to use Jlez Olhera as a provisional name for the culti- 



1597. Hop Hornbeam-Ostrya VirE 



Olhonna crassifolia, but thereby arises a puzzle in no- 

 menclature. By Linnaeus a certain flat-leaved plant was 

 called Othnnva crassifnlin. Subsequently some of the 

 species of fl'lio'iin "-.tp wparaf.-<l l.v ,TM.;ii..rt K- '-^pa.-h 



intoadisfim-' ■. ~ ' "' i.-i-, ,ii,ii,,.r,| i, 1,, ,i 1,, j,,. 



volucral ^^ '■ ■> ' •',, 1 ■•- - , 1 I, ■■■•■■ 1 •- im- 



parted. I ': , nils 



WasO»;0-.;." '/- .' .' -/....I.HM..,". hli'll Ihr.l III i-|iI.|i-.'i7m./1- 



nopsia vhiirifi'l'nt . 

 consider LinniBus' 

 tnral form of Othn 



Spa.'h. H.-nthani itc Hooker 

 t cra.^slfoUa to be a horticul- 

 rJieirifoliri. It was therefore 



in. Tong, 

 of Ilex. 



true Othonna. It is the i//hnnn'f fni:<sif'ilia of Har- 

 vey; but since this name cmsxifidid was used by Lin- 

 nsBus, it cannot be used agaiu in tin- same genus, and 

 Harvey's plant must take some other name. In fact, 

 before Harvey's time, the name Othonna crassifolia 

 was used by Meyer for still another species. The O. 



