BOWIKA 



BRAHEA 



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no Ivs. except two small, linear, erect scales at the apex 

 of the bulb, which quickly vanish. The Ivs. show its 

 relation to Drimia and Scilla. 



volubilis, Harv. Fig. 25:?. Perianth 6-cleft to the b;iM<: 

 -cirments incurved at the tips. S. Afr. B. M. 5(519. 

 Sold by Reasoner Bros., Oneco, Fla., and cult, in botanic 

 iranlens with cactus-like Euphorbias and other curi- 

 osities. w M 



Sou- lea rolxbiUfi is a useful plant for twining on the 

 supports of a moderately warm greenhouse, and is of 

 the easiest possible culture. Propagation is effected by 



253. Bowiea volubilis. 



seeds, or occasionally by the natural division of the 

 bulbs. The season of growth usually begins about the 

 first of October, when the bulbs should be repotted in 

 any light, rich soil, and kept well watered until the 

 stems begin to mature, which usually occurs in May, 

 when water should be gradually withheld, and the 

 plants stored away in some shaded part of the green- 

 house and kept quite dry until the season of growth 

 begins again. EDWARD J. CANNING. 



BOX. See Buxus. 



BOX ELDEE (Acer Negundo, which see). Fig. 254. 

 A very popular small native tree for planting on the 

 prairies and in trying climates. It propagates most 

 readily from seeds. It is an excellent nurse tree for 

 other species. The wood is of inferior quality. It grows 

 with great rapidity for a few years. 



BRACHYCH-ffiTA (Greek, short bristle). Comp6sitce. 

 One species, growing in open woods from Ky. to N. C. 

 and Ga. Closely allied to Solidago, from which it differs 

 in the very short pappus (the bristles shorter than the 

 akene), and the lower Ivs. cordate. B. cordata, Torr. & 



Gray, which has been int. by dealers in native plants, 

 is 2-.'{ ft. high, soft-pubescent, with thin, serrate Ivs.: 

 11s. golden yellow, in small heads, which are borne on 

 raceme-like secund branch lets. Recommended for the 

 native border. 



BRACHYCOME (sJtort 

 //'//>, from the Greek, al- 

 luding to the pappus). 

 Compdsitce. Australian 

 herbs, with membrana- 

 ceous involucral bracts, 

 naked receptacle, very 

 short pappus bristles, and 

 diffuse leafy growth. One 

 species in cult. : 



iberidif61ia,Benth. SWAN 

 RIVER DAISY. Figs. 255, 

 256. A very graceful little 

 annual) 6-12 in. high) from 

 Austral., suited to bor- 

 ders, and also attractive 

 in pots ; seeds may be sown in the 

 open or under glass. Fls. blue or 

 white, an inch across: Ivs. small, 

 pinnate, with very narrow divis- 

 ions ; glabrous. L. H. B. 



BRAHEA (Tycho Brahe, the 

 astronomer). Palmdcece, tribe 

 Coryphece. Spineless palms, with 

 medium caudices, ringed below, 

 and clothed above with the bases 

 of the fibrous sheaths. Leaves 

 terminal, orbicular, somewhat 

 peltate, flabellate - plicate, split 

 down the middle, the lobes bifid, 

 infolded, filamentous on the mar- 

 gins ; rachis short, narrow ; ligule 

 subtriangular; petioles flattened, 

 dentate along the margins ; 

 sheaths fibrous : spadices long, 

 pendulous, paniculately much 

 branched, the ultimate long ver- 

 miform obtuse branches rigid, 

 spreading, very densely velvety 

 tomentose : spathes many, long- 

 linear, firm, coriaceous, split, glabrous ; bracts and 

 bractlets minute: fls. smaller than the diameter of the 

 branches, hidden in the tomentum: frs. % in. long, ob- 

 liquely ellipsoidal, minutely pubescent, laterally keeled, 

 pale when dry. Species 4, Mex. to the Andes. Of sim- 

 ple culture in a fibrous compost, with an admixture of 

 sand. Prop, by seeds. 



dulcis, Mart. PALMA DULCE. Stem 10-20 ft., 6-8 in. 

 thick, cylindrical : Ivs. 4-5 ft. long ; petiole plano-con- 

 vex, green, with pale margins ; ligule short, subtriangu- 



254. Raceme of younjf 

 fruit of Box Elder. 



255. Brachycome iberidifolij 



