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KNIPHOFIA 



KCELERIA 



shorter and stricter Ivs. than Saundersii, the spikes more 

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

 p:laucous. Gn. 55, p. 167. Var. Saundersii, in R. H. 

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

 spike and said to grow G 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 .^2 in. across. Var. 

 serotina is a late-fld. form. 



Baker's treatment of the varieties is as follows; 



Var. maxima. Baker [K. and T. grandifldra, Hort. T. 

 Saundersii, Carr. ). J\Iore robust: Ivs. 4-5 ft. long, 1 in. 

 wide: raceme and fls. longer: stamens more decidedly 

 I'xserted. B.M. 6553 (fls. yellow, more or less tinged 

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



Var. ii6biUs, Baker {T. ndhiJis, Guill.). Still more 

 robust: scape including raceme sometimes G-7 ft. lung: 

 fls. 1>^ in. long. R.H. 1885:252. 



Var. ser6tina, Hort. A late-floweriug form with slender 

 I^erianth 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. 30: 727. 



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

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

 M. 6116. 



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

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

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

 dwarfer plant than No. 1 and for many purposes 

 equally desirable. Height l''.>' ft. Fls. tinged green." 

 ./. B. Kelhr. 



4. N61soni,Mast. Lvs. l>^-2 ft. long, with athic-k mid- 

 rib and recurved serrulate edges. U.C. 111. 11:561. Gn. 

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



5. Mac6wanii, Baker. Lvs. with a thickened scabrous 

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

 R.H. 1879:300. — "A verj' neat dwarf species with orange- 

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

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

 species and A". Vvaria, -was 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. JC coroliniuniun of one of 

 our nursery catalogues is presumably an error ffjr A". 

 corollina. K. 'media 3Iac6wanii, Hort. "A hybrid be- 

 tween K. aloides grandiflora and IC Macowanil. 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. caul6scen9, 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. 

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

 C. HI. 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-lK 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. pauciflbra, Baker. Lvs. 1-lJ^ 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 

 ■V4in. 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, li, in. long; filaments red; anthers 

 yellow. B.M. 6569. — This has relatively longer stnmens 

 than any other species and is perhaps raoreconspicnous 

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

 spike. One of the tcnderest. 



Supplementary list of imperfretly known Lulin namos rci'- 



resenting kinds now advertisi^d in America: E. h^brida, Hort. 

 is a trade name used to include varieties with person:il name.si 

 of miscellaneous or unknown parentage.— iC. iiiutdhile, Hort! 

 "Height 5-6 ft." Woolson.— K. PfUzerii, Hort. .John Saul, 189;{i 

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

 it is a great improvement of K. aloides, var. grandiflora, the 

 scapes more numerous, often 4/^ ft. high: spikes over 12 in. 

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

 edge.— £'. specibsa, Hort. Van Tubergeu.— £". Wobdii. Hort., is 

 advertised by Franeeschi, who says it comes from Natal, and 

 has lemon-yellow fls. Not in Flora Capensis. 



Twenty-five varieties with personal names are advertised by 

 Van Tubergen and Krelage. How much variation in habit and 

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

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

 orange, bronzy yellow, deep yellow, pure yellow and primrose- 

 or straw-colored. The filaments may be red or yellow, the 

 luithers apparently soinetimes differently colored from the fila- 

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

 is usually concerned. ttt jit 



KdCHIA (after W. D. J.Koch, 1771-1849, professor of 

 botany at Erlangen; wrote a flora of Germany and Switz- 

 erland). ChcHopodiacece. This includes a plant treated 

 as a hardy annual which is called the Mock Cypress 

 or Summer Cypress. J. Wilkinson Elliott says, "It 

 grows 2-2K ft. high, resembling a small, closely sheared 

 evergreen, the foliage being light green until Septem- 

 ber, when the whole plant is a solid mass of crimson. 

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

 two weeks after blooming. It germinates very quickly, 

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

 the Mexican Fire Plant, because the seeds were procured 

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

 the western hemisphere. It is probably this same plant 

 which is advertised by Bridgeman as Belvidere Kocliia. 

 There is no genus called Belvidere. The French popu- 

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

 of Europe and northern Asia. Bridgeman, however, 

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

 while Voss ( Vilmorin's Bluraengartnerei) says it is 3-5 

 ft. high or more. Voss advises a clay soil and sunny posi- 

 tion, and since it likes a salty soil recommends that 

 about an ounce and a half of saltpetre be sprinkled over 

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

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

 plant from July to September. 



The seed m^y be sown indoors in April, and the plants 

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

 ground about May 1. The plants should stand about 2 

 ft. apart. 



Kocliia is a polymorphorus genus of about 30 species 

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

 minute and narrow, alternate, more or less silky, rarely 

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

 tered in the axils of the lvs.; calyx enlarging into a 

 flask-shaped body, which incloses the fruit ; perianth 

 orbicular; lobes 5, incurved and bearinghorizontal wings 

 on the back or on the tnVie which are membranous or 

 scarious, distinct or confluent; stamens 5; filaments 

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



scop&,ria, Schrad. BIock Cypress. Summer Cypress. 

 Erect, much-branched, densely pyramidal ; branches 

 striate, slender, and close to the main stem: lvs. 

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

 fls. inconspicuous, green; perianth in fruit provided with 

 very short, triangular, pointed appendages. 



KCELfiRIA (Georg Ludwig Kceler, professorof natural 

 history at Mainz, published in 1802 a description of the 

 grasses of Germany and France). Gramlne(V. 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 1-23^ 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 ghiraes more or less hyaline- 

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

 awn . 



cristfi.ta, Pers. Stems rigid, pubescent just below the 

 panicle : sheaths often shorter than the intemodes, 



