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KNIPHOFIA 



KCELERIA 



shorter and stricter Ivs. than Saundersii, the spikes more 

 ovoid, the fls. uniformly red and less deflexed. Lvs. not 

 glaucous. Gn. 55, p. 167. Var. Saundersii, in R. H. 

 1882:504, is shown with "red-orange fls. "in an elliptical 

 spike and said to grow 6 ft. and more high. Woolson 

 finds it grows 4-6 ft. high in rich soil, with cylindrical 

 spikes 18-24 in. long and fls. often % in. across. Var. 

 serdtina is a late-fld. form. 



Baker's treatment of the varieties is as follows: 



Var. maxima, Baker ( K. and T. grandi flora, Hort. T. 

 Saundersii, Carr.). More robust: Ivs. 4-5 ft. long, 1 in. 

 wide: raceme and fls. longer: stamens more decidedly 

 exserted. B.M. 6553 (fls. yellow, more or less tinged 

 red). R.H. 1882:504 (colored like the type). 



Var. ndbilis, Baker (T. ndUlis, Guill.). Still more 

 robust: scape including raceme sometimes 6-7 ft. long: 

 fls. \y z in. long. R.H. 1885:252. 



Var. serbtina, Hort. A late-flowering form with slender 

 perianth 1% in. long and distinctly exserted stamens. 

 Baker also mentions varieties carnosa and glaucescens 

 without discrimination. Other varieties with Latin 

 names are mentioned in Gn. 36: 727. 



2. Bodperi, Lem. Lvs. 4 ft. long, scabrous on the 

 margin, glaucous. Later-fld. than No. 1: fls. paler. B. 

 M. 6116. 



3. Burchelli, Kunth. Lvs. 2-3 ft. long, %-% in. wide, 

 smooth on the margin: spike 6-12 in. long: fls. bright 

 yellow, much tinged with red when young. "A much 

 dwarf er plant than No. 1 and for many purposes 

 equally desirable. Height 1% ft. Fls. tinged green." 

 J. B. Keller. 



4. Nelsoni, Mast. Lvs. l%-2 ft. long, with a thick mid- 

 rib and recurved serrulate edges. G.C. III. 11:561. Gn. 

 50, p. 400; 55:1213 (brick-red, no trace of yellow). 



5. Macowanii, Baker. Lvs. with a thickened scabrous 

 margin, many upper fls. bright dark red. B.M.. 6167. 

 R.H. 1879 :390. " A very neat dwarf species with orange- 

 scarlet fls. in early autumn, 1-2 ft." Woolson. K. coral- 

 Una, Hort., R.B. 19:25 (1893), a hybrid between this 

 species and K, Uvaria,v?a,s raised by Deleuil, of Mar- 

 seilles. Woolson says it grows 18-24 in. high and bears 

 ovoid spikes of coral red fls. all summer and fall. He 

 says it is good for cutting. K. corolinianum of one of 

 our nursery catalogues is presumably an error for K. 

 corollina. K. media Mac6wanii, Hort. "A hybrid be- 

 tween K. aloides grandiflora and K. Macowanii. This 

 is an earlier blooming sort than either of its parents, 

 as dwarf as Macowanii and much earlier and more 

 brilliant. Thoroughly tested." Woolson. 



6. caulescens, Baker. Lvs. sword-shaped-acuminate, 

 broadly channelled, not acutely keeled on the back, 4-5 

 ft. long, 5-6 in. wide, margin serrulate: spike over 1 ft. 

 long, 3 in. thick: lower fls. yellow, upper ones red. G. 

 C. III. 6:564. R.H. 1887:132. -This differs from all de- 

 scribed above in having stamens much exserted. Gn. 

 41:861 is perhaps the most artistic of all colored plates 

 of Kniphofias. 



7. Tiickii, Baker. Lvs. ensiform (linear in Nos. 8-10), 

 1-1% ft. long, % in. wide, margin serrate: spike very 

 dense, 5-6 in. long: fls. yellow, tinged bright red when 

 young. One of the hardiest. 



8. paucifldra, Baker. Lvs. 1-1% ft. long, margin 

 smooth: raceme lax (dense in Nos. 9-10), 2-3 in. long: 

 fls. pale yellow; stamens shortly exserted, as in No. 7. 

 G.C. III. 12:65 shows it with only 25 fls. and the loosest 

 raceme of any species here described. 



9. Leichtlinii, Baker. Fls. bright yellow; perianth 

 more narrowly funnel-shaped than in No. 10, becoming 

 %in. long: scape speckled with red, sometimes bearing 

 a bract 4-5 in. long. This and No. 10 are from tropical 

 Africa; the rest from South Africa. B.M. 6716. R.H. 

 1884, p. 557. Var. distachya, Baker, has a forked scape 

 and small accessory lateral raceme. 



10. comdsa, Hochst. Fls. bright yellow, dilated sud- 

 denly at the middle, % in. long; filaments red; anthers 

 yellow. B.M. 6569. -This has relatively longer stamens 

 than any other species and is perhaps more conspicuous 

 by reason of its mass of stamens than the outline of the 

 spike. One of the tenderest. 



Supplementary list of imperfectly known Latin names rep- 



resenting kinds now advertised in America: K. hybrida Hoi ' 

 is a trade name used to include varieties with personal 'nam 

 of miscellaneous or unknown parentage. .fiT. mutdUle F 

 Height 5-6 ft." Woolson. K. Pfitzerti, Hort. John Suul l> 

 said "rose-scarlet without a trace of yellow." Dreer, 1900 sj. 

 it is a great improvement of K. aloides, var. graud'iflora t 

 scapes more numerous, often 4% ft. high: spikes over 12 ! 

 long: fls. rich orange-scarlet, shading to salmon-rose atV 

 edge. K. speciosa, Hort. Van Tubergen. K. Wooclii, Hort 

 advertised by Franceschi, who says it comes from Natal a 

 has lemon-yellow fls. Not in Flora Capensis. 



Twenty-five varieties with personal names are advertised 

 Van Tubergen and Krelage. How much variation in habit a 

 season of bloom does not appear. The color-range is about 

 follows: dark brick red, carmine-red, coral red, scarlet-crane 

 orange, bronzy yellow, deep yellow, pure yellow and primro^ 

 or straw-colored. The filaments may be red or yellow t 

 anthers apparently sometimes differently colored from the fi] 

 ments. Some hybrids are recorded, and some form of K. aloid 



is usually concerned. 



W. M. 



KOCHIA (after W. D. J. Koch, 1771-1849, professor. ! 

 botany at Erlangen; wrote a flora of Germany and Swit 

 erland). Chenopodidcece. This includes a plant treat* 

 as a hardy annual which is called the Mock Cyprei 

 or Summer Cypress. J. Wilkinson Elliott says, 

 grows 2-2% ft. high, resembling a small, closely shear* 

 evergreen, the foliage being light green until Sepien 

 her, when the whole plant is a solid mass of crimsoi 

 The fls. are minute but countless. The plant dies withi 

 two weeks after blooming. It germinates very quickl- 

 even in the warm spells of late winter." Elliott called' 

 the Mexican Fire Plant, because the seeds were procure 

 in Mexico. However, the genus has no species native 1 

 the western hemisphere. It is probably this same plai 

 which is advertised by Bridgeman as JBelvidere Kochic 

 There is no genus called Belvidere. The French popi 

 lar name for this plant is Belvedere, and it is a nativ 

 of Europe and northern Asia. Bridgeman, howevei 

 says the fls. are yellow, and gives the height as 3 ft 

 while Voss (Vilmorin's Blumengartnerei) says it is 3- 

 ft. high or more. Voss advises a clay soil and sunny pos: 

 tion, and since it likes a salty soil recommends tbs 

 about an ounce and a half of saltpetre be sprinkled ove 

 each square yard of soil. This plant is used abroad as 

 "foliage plant, "because of the vivid color of the whol 

 plant from July to September. 



The seed nny be sown indoors in April, and the plant 

 set out in May, or the seeds may be sown in the opei 

 ground about May 1. The plants should stand about 

 ft. apart. 



Kochia is a polymorphorus genus of about 30 specie 

 of herbs which are often woody at the base: Ivs. oftei 

 minute and narrow, alternate, more or less silky, rarel; 

 glabrous: fls. small or minute, sessile, solitary or clus 

 tered in the axils of the Ivs.; calyx' enlarging into ', 

 flask-shaped body, which incloses the fruit ; periantl 

 orbicular ; lobes 5, incurved and bearing horizontal wing; 

 on the back or on the tube which are membranous o; 

 scarious, distinct or confluent; stamens 5; filament! 

 short or long and compressed; stigmas 2, rarely 3. 



scoparia, Schrad. MOCK CYPRESS. SUMMER CYPRESS 

 Erect, much-branched, densely pyramidal : branches 

 striate, slender, and close to the main stem: Ivs 

 linear-lanceolate, ciliate, 2-3 in. long, 2-4 lines wide: 

 fls. inconspicuous, green ; perianth in fruit provided witt 

 very short, triangular, pointed appendages. 



KCELfiEIA (GeorgLudwig Rosier, professor of natural 

 history at Mainz, published in 1802 a description of the 

 grasses of Germany and France). Graminece. This in- 

 cludes a tufted, perennial grass sometimes offered by col- 

 lectors of native plants. Wilfred Brotherton suggests its 

 cultivation for ornament in dry, silvery sand. It is a 

 very variable plant, growing 1-2% ft. high, erect and 

 unbranched, and has shining spikes. The genus con- 

 tains about 15 widely scattered species, and its nearest 

 cultivated allies are Eatonia and Molinia, which are dis- 

 criminated elsewhere. Important generic characters are 

 the spicate panicles, which are cylindrical or somewhat 

 interrupted: flowering glumes more or less hyaline- 

 scarious, blunt, or tipped with a mucro or rarely a short 

 awn. 



cristata, Pers. Stems rigid, pubescent just below the 

 panicle : sheaths often shorter than the internodes, 



