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WAAHOO, WAHOO, o 



1HHH titroiiiirl'iir,'!!^. I'lii 



BURNING BUSH is J-Jiioin/- 

 iis alula, the \Vini;ril Kliu, is 



also ralli'd Wliiilu. 



,)i- Wall. I 



WAKE ROBIN. 



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WAFER ASH. Plil.ii I rifaliula . 

 WAHLENBfiRGIA grandiflora. Ser Plnhirada,,. 



WAITZIA [F. A. C. Waitz, Ihu-u 17i;,s. stall' pliysieiali 

 to The Dlltcll af SaiuarailL;-. -lava ; NVrotc on .lavanese 

 plants). Coiiiposilir. lucluiks one of tho rarrr " ever- 

 lasting flowers. " u liaU'-hardy annnal whieh icrr>\vs ahout 

 Iki ft. high aiul hears tiat-topped elusters of yellow 

 tiower-heads. with a golden disk. The elusters are 

 ahoiit 5 in. across, ami the heads 2 in. across, the showy- 

 part being the involucral hracts, whidi are arranged in 

 4 or 5 series, and are petal-like in character but of 

 stiffer texture than orclinary petals. Wairzia is a genus 

 of 7 species of Australian herbs, mostly annuals: l\-s. 

 alternate, linear or nearly so: tl. -heads in terininal 

 corymbs or rarely in olilong, leafy racemes: involucre 

 yarionsin outline, the bracts overlapping in man\' rows, 

 all colored and petal-like : receptacle flat, without scales : 

 atithers provided with tails of microscopic size: akeni's 

 somewhat compressed, glabrous or pajdllose, termi- 

 nating in a slender beak: pappus of capillary lu-istlrs 

 usually c<")hering at the base, simple, barbellate or plu- 

 mose. The genus is distingnished from Heliiiteruin and 

 Helichrvsnm by the beaked akeues. Flora Australien- 

 si~. vol. O. 



grandiflbra, W. Tlnnnpsi^n. (The authorship of this 

 species is creilited to Xan.lin by Index Keweiisis. i 

 Half-hardy evorhisiing or " imtiiortelle," annual, ex- 

 ceeding 18 in. in height: Ivs. lanceolate, loug-acnmi- 

 nate, sessile, grei-n above, slightly villous beneath, 

 prominent midrib beneath: tls, yellow, in terminal 

 corymbs, F. 18(1:1:41, where it was originally described. 

 Probably the niost ilesirable of the genus. It seems to 

 have rexilaced IT. o //rc-r . the favorite of the previ(uis 

 generation, being larger-tld.. more robust, and rather 

 easier of cultivatii.ui. W. IM, 



WALDSTEtNIA ( Franz Adam, Count of Waldstein- 

 Warteuburg, born IT.itf at Vienna: wrote with Kitaibel 

 an illustrated work on rare plants of Hungary; died 

 182.3). Bosaceip. The Yellow or B.\kken Stka"w- 

 BERKY, Wal.iti'iiiia frngnrioides. is a little plant that 

 looks much like a strawberry plant, but it has yellow 

 flowers and bears no edilde fruit. It is a hardy North 

 American tnfted perennial herb, about 4 in, high, with 



glossy Ivs mposed of 3 wedge-shaped Ifts. and 5- 



petaled fls. less than H in. across. It comes with the 

 first rush of spring, and continues to bloom until sum- 

 mer. There is no" satisfaction in growing only a few 

 plants of this wild flower. The plant is appropriate to 

 the rockerv, where every effort should be made to in- 

 duce it to' form a dense ni.at, Masses of the Yellow- 

 Strawberry have been used with good effect for edging 

 .shrubbery' borders, and the plant is Ihsted by several 

 nursery-men. 



Only" 4 species of Waldsteinia are well known. They 

 are hardy, creeping, perennial, strawlierry-like plants: 

 Ivs. alternate, mostly basal, long-stalked, entire, lobed, 

 S-.5-cut or with :i-,T'ltts.. the Ifts. crenate or incised: 

 scapes bracted, bearing 2-,5 yellow fls. : peta 

 Tate, about as long as the calyx-lobes; staiiie 

 nite : carpels 2-(;: akenes obliquely olM.void. dry or 

 slightly fleshy. Natives of north temperate zone. 



fragarioldes, Tratt. Fig. 2708. Popular descri])tioii 

 above. Pubescent or nearly glabrous: Ifts. dentate or 

 crenate except at the base, 1-2 in. long: scapi-s coryni- 

 bosely :f-8-fld.: akenes 4-B. May, June. Woods and 

 shaded hill-sides. New England to Jlinn. and Ind., 

 alongthe Alleghanies to Ga. B,B, 2:218. R.H. 1890, p. 

 510. 'B.M. l:-,(;7 ami L.B.C. 5:408 (both as Dal ihunhi 

 frar/arlniilr^]. W. M. 



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WALIIMEISTER is A«p,rii la o,lar,il„. 

 WALKING-LEAF FERN is Ci wi.la.,oriis. 

 WALL CRESS or ROCK CRESS is Araln.-<. 



WALL FERN. Pal iniaiVnlin nilijarr. 



WALLFLOWER. L'onsnlf Clirira iilhi 



Cluiri 



WALLlCHIA (Nathanirl Wallicli, 178(l-18,-,4, Danish 

 botanist; wrote on plants of India), Pii linari^ip. Three 

 s]>ecies of Himalayan [laltiis, one of which, tiie first <le- 

 scrilied lielow, is cult, oiildoors in S. Fla. and S. ('alif. 

 and in Eu. under glass, and Ihe second, while not ad- 

 vertised in America, is bidie\-rii to be in a fi,'W northern 

 greenhouses. 



Low pialms, cespitose, with shm't branching caudices, 

 or in 1 species tall: Ivs. densely fasidculate, terminal, 

 distichous, scaly, unequally ydnnatisect : segments soli- 

 tary or the l(;'west in groups, cuneate at the base, ob- 

 long-obovate or oblanceolat(-, erose-dentate, the terminal 

 one cuneate; midnerve distinct; nerves flabidlate; 

 margins recurved at the base; petiole slender, laterally 

 compressed; sheath short, sjdit. with the margins deeply 

 crenate: spadices short-i'fdumded, the staminate droop- 

 ing or rectirved, etvidd, much branclied, densely Hd..the 

 piistillate looser, erect; s].athes very numeriius, slender- 

 coriaceotis, the iowm- (Oies the narrower, tubular, the 

 upper ones cvnibiforin. entire, imbrical iiI : fls. medium, 

 vellow; fr. ovoid-oblong, red or purple. Stove palms. 

 For culture, see Diili/iiiasinriiiii . 



Wallichia is allied to llidymos]iernia, Arenga and 

 Caryota, differing in having stamens instead of an 

 indefinite number, Caryota is the only one of this 

 group with ruminate albumen. Didymosperma has a 

 cup-shaped, 3-lobed calyx, and in Arenga the calyx 

 has 3 distinct sepals. 



2708. YeUov\'. or Barren Strawberry— Waldsteinia 

 fragarioides (X ^n)- 



disticha, T. And,-rs. Cauilex lO-L". ft. high, 5-6 in. in 

 di;un ■ nakc.l: Ivs. distich. ms, (i-lO ft. long, alternate, 

 erect: Ifts. 1-2 ft. long, 2-2i.j in, wide, fascicled, linear, 

 narrowed to the base, trnnc'ate and denticulate at the 



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