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HEPATICA 



HERACLEUM 



second edition (Georgetown, 1818) contains 3i8 pages. 

 It includes "A Treatise on Gardening, Ijy u citizen of 

 Virginia." This occupies 80 pages. Tlje copy owned 

 by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society possesses 

 this manuscript note: "This treatise is by John Ran- 

 dolph, of Williamsburg, father of Edmund Randolph, 

 Secretary of State during tlie administration of Cieneral 

 Washington." Robert Manning writes that this note 

 may have been made by General Dearborn. A third 

 edition was published at Washington in lb20, and con- 

 tained 308 pp ■^^ ^i 



HERACLfiUM {named for Hercules, who used it in 

 medicine, according to Pliny). Ombelllfera'. This in- 

 cludes 3 hardy herbaceous plants sometimes called Giant 

 Parsley or Giant Cow-parsnip. They are not suited for 

 general gardening, but are sometimes grown in wild 

 gardens or parks, or as single specimens on lawns, 

 where a very bold and striking object is desired. They 

 are coarse herbs, gx-owing 5-6 ft. high, with broad foli- 

 age, wliich is their chief beauty. According to J. M'ood- 

 ward Manning, they are adapted to all soils, but prefer 

 . a rich, moist soil, and hence do well at the edge of run- 

 ning water. Manning adds that these plants should 

 never be allowed to go to seed. J. B. Keller writes 

 that if these plants are grown on an open, sunny lawn, 

 they should be liberally supi'Iied with water at all times. 

 Prop, by division or seed. The genus Heracleum has 

 50-70 widely scattered species and no near allies of 

 garden value. 



A. Plants perennial, 



lan^um, Mich. Lvs. trisect, tonientose beneath; seg- 

 ments petiolulate, rotund, cordate, lobed : leaflets of the 

 iovolucel lanceolate: fr. oval-orbicular. N. Amer., W. 

 Asia. Mn. 4, p. 104. 



villdsum, Fisch. [H. giganteum, Fisch.). Height 8-12 

 ft.: lvs. sinuate-pinnatitid, sharply serrate, acuminate, 

 woolly-tomentose beneath; leaflets of involucres short, 

 bristlj', deflexed; umbels sparingly rayed: fr. elliptic, 

 ciliate, woolly on the back. G.C. III. 3:437 and 20:271. 

 — Keller says thefls. are nearly white, and borne in Aug. 

 and Sept., in denser umbels than those of ^. Sibiricum. 



The flowers nf Hepntir'a droop 

 and close at night. 



oblong, obtuse. Earliest spring. Eastern U. S., Eu. 

 and Asia. B. M. 10. B.R. r^:2S7 (nn M. Amrrirana). 

 White, blue and pink-fld. ferais have lieeu fixed in 

 cultivation, and aro known as var. dlba, Hort. ; var. 

 caeriilea fl.-pl., Hort.; var. rilbra fl.-pl,, Hort. On. 

 20:448. G.C. 1873, p. 645 (var. 7narmoraf a, Moore). 



acutiloba, DC. (fl". triloba, var. acuta, Pursh. Ave- 

 mone ariitUoba, Lainson. H. ari'ifa, Britt.}. Fig. 1039. 

 Much like //. triloba, but with the lobes of the lvs. 

 ovate and acute, occasionally the lateral lobes 2-cleft 

 I rarely the middle one) ; akenes slightly stipitate. 

 Eastern U. S. 



angulosa, DC. (Anemo)ie angulh.^a, Lam.). Plant 

 tufted as in the other Hepaticas, hairy: lvs. 3-5-lobed, 

 lobes often serrate: involucre near tlie fl. toothed: 

 tls. lari,^e, blue, wliitish or reddish. Hungarv. B M 

 .^518. G.C. 1865:698. Gn.2G,p.25. p; q 1) wis 



HEPBURN, DAVID, was joint author with John Oar- 

 diner of the second American book on horticulture. This 

 was published at Washington, D. C, in 1804. The name 

 of Gardiner appears first on the title page, but it may 

 be inferred that the practical experience in the book is 

 almost wholly Hepburn's. Pie had had 40 years of ex- 

 perience in gardening, half of the time in Enirbuid and 

 half in America. He was employed by General J. Mason 

 for 6 years on Mason's Island, Georgetown. He had 

 also been employed by Governor Mercer. The book was 

 well made for the time. It s a lOnio, and contains 201 

 pages of practical directions. The calendar style is 

 used. The first part (TOO pp.) is devoted to the kitchen 

 garden. The second part consists chieflv of "Fruits, 

 l-'lowers, and Shrubs" (H2pp.). This is followed by a 

 few pages on hops, hothouses and greenhouses. The 



1040. The Goose Tree of the herbalists. 



