1210 



PAPHIOPEDILUM 



bud. Pax writes iu Engler & Prautl's Pflanzenfamilien 

 that the "ovary is completely ;^-loculed, or 1-loculeti lie- 

 low and only the tip divided into 3 locules." The species 

 have not been revised and will be found under Cypripe- 

 diura and Selenipedium. 



P. barbdtum. Pfitz. (Cypripedium barbatum. Lindl.).— P. 

 Bixalli, Pfitz. (Cypripedium Boxalli. Reichb. t.).—P. Cauda- 

 turn, Pfitz. {Selenipedium eaudatura, Reichb. f. ). 



Heinrich Hasselbring. 



PAPPOOSE ROOT or BLTJE COHOSH is Caulophylliim 

 tlinlictroirles. a native plant that does not appear to be 

 in the general trade. 



PAPfRUS antiqudrum (Fig. 1640), the Egyptian 

 Paper-plant, is Vyperus Papyrus, which see (or tech- 

 nical description. It is a tall-growing, graceful aquatic, 

 bearing an umbel of long and slender branchlets. It 

 does not endure frost. It is much used for bedding out 

 about ponds in the summer. The plants for bedding are 



1640. Papyrus antlquorum 



propagated in January and February, by division of the 

 roots that were brought in from the open in autumn. 

 The plants are kept quiet until the roots are divided. 

 The roots are divided into small pieces, and the divi- 

 sions are started in a warm sand propagating bed. As 

 the plants grow, they are potted. By late spring the 

 plants should be ready for use iu shallow pools in the 



PARACHUTE FLOWER, adv. by Blanc, 1900, is Cero- 

 pegia Siiii'lirx.nn . Dii'riisne, from So. Africa. Asclepia- 

 d^cew. It K :i i.ill-iw iiiing plant with fls. of most un- 

 usual KliM|ic ■.m.\ ,-trnrtiire. It is figured in B.M. 5792, 

 from wliirh tin- foilnwing extracts are taken: "Stems 

 stout, succulent, as thick as a goose-quill. . . . Lvs. 

 small and distant for the size of the plant, shortly 

 stoutly petioled, 1 K-2K in. long, ovate-cordate, obtuse, 

 thick and succulent, nerveless, deep green like the 



PARASITE 



stems. . . . Corolla 2J-2 in. long, curved at the base, 

 tuhi- :; in. br.Ni.l across the top; tube slightly inrtated 



:iimI jt I III. l.u.se, expanding into a funnel-sluipt-ii, 



."'III i ' .lit limb with opaque green retii-uliited 



Villi III |ii Ills .') short distant lobes on its nmr(,'in, 

 will, h I. :.i- I hi ,. curious horizontal appendagt-s th:it 

 togeriu-r tonn tiie urabraculiform cap to the flower: this 

 cap is a bright verdigris-green, pitted on the .surface 

 and formed of 5 confluent convex lobes with a conical 

 central papilla; each lobe is 2-lobed at its outer margin, 

 and the margins are turned up and bear a series of 

 transparent, flat, erect hairs within the border." 



Ceropegia contains about 80 specie.s, mostly African. 

 Several species are known in European collections, but 

 when the first volume of this Cyclopedia was written 

 none had been offered in the American trade. Some of 

 them are bulbous-rooted. They demand a warm or in- 

 termediate house, and are propagated by cuttings of 

 the stems. All the species are odd. l_ jj. jj. 



PARADtSEA (said to be from Paradise, of which this 

 pbuit i.s supposed to be a fit inhabitant). Often written 

 I'in-iiilisia. St. Bruno's Lily. LiUAcea. St. Bruno's 

 Lily and St. Bernard's Lily are advertised in nearly 

 every good-sized catalogue of hardy herbaceous plants, 

 as Anthericum I/iUastrum and Anthericum LilUigo, 

 but the former .should be called Paradisea Litiastriim. 

 Both these plants have white, lily-like fls., borne in 

 early summer on scapes a foot or more high. The fls. of 

 both are tipped green outside. The lvs. are linear, all 

 radical, and a foot or so long. Both plants are natives 

 of middle Europe, and by their popular names recall 

 the life-saving monks of the Alps. It is no wonder, 

 then, that they are often confused. The Paradisea has 

 larger fls., which are funnel-shaped rather than rotate, 

 but the fundamental differences upon which Paradisea 

 is made a separate genus lie in the stamens. In Para- 

 disea (according to Bentham & Hooker), the anthers 

 are attached at the middle of the back and are versatile; 

 in Anthericum the anthers are attached at their base 

 and an- i-ni't. Moreover, the stamens of Paradisea 

 :irr In |i ._. > li'.ii- ; ..I Am h. ri.-um, perigynous. Following 



iiri ' li. .1' I . iinces as given by Baker in 



.1 ' ■' • - ■ ' -'s7. 301 (1877): 



/'i/'i ' ' /' - ' 'i;.., I '..-rtol., has 6-8 lvs.: scape 12- 

 24 in. Iiinh: niceiiie li-lu-llil. : bracts lanceolate : perianth 

 lines long; ovary and cap- 



; long: style 15- 



sule oblong. 



Anthirirnm Lilhlgn. Linn., has 12-20 lvs.: scape 6-15 

 IT, hiL-li: v,r,.n..-f^i..m.tin.fspanicled)10-20-fld.: bracts 



■■ ... i.;. 111. i; - li.ng: style 5-C lines long: 



Some of the above char 

 : ' iliivated plants. 



/'. /,//,/./,/..-;, \ 111-. ;/..„"./■, Hort.,is said to be a much 

 l.-irgcr and IjettcT form than the type, growing 2-3 ft. 

 high and bearing more and larger fls. (5n. 9:1 (as An- 

 thericmn LUiastrnm var. ) has fls. 2 in. long and 2% in. 

 across. -^ M. 



PARADISE FLOWER. Strelitzia regince. 



PARAGUAY TEA. II, r Paragua 



PARA NUT. BerthoUetl 



s, not 1 



alatt 



or sendsi-i n . i - by means 



of which a |.,.i .1 ,.,i II ; I . ;,. . . .ury for the 



Parasite is ..Maiiu.l. A |.ha.i ulmh li\r,s upon dead 

 organic substance is teruii'd a saprophyte (which see). 

 The most common Parasites are to be found among the 

 fungi, which are the abundant causes of plant diseases, 

 — such as rusts, .smuts, and mildews. These fungous 

 Parasites secure all of their nourishment from the host, 

 or plant attacked, and most commonly grow within the 

 tissues until ready to form their reproductive bodies, or 

 spores. There are also Parasites among flowering 

 plants. Of these there are two principal classes: (1) 

 those green In color, or chlorophyll-containing, such as 

 the mistletoe and the bastard toad-flax; and (2) those 

 practically de'-oid of chlorophyll, such as the dodder 



