Winter Botany; A Companion Volume to the Author's Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...developed: buds glabrous. (3). Z. Clava Herculis. EVODIA. (Family Rutaceae). Trees: deciduous. Twigs round or somewhat 4-angIed or wrinkled: pith moderate, somewhat angular, firm, continuous. Buds solitary, sessile, ovoid, with 1 pair of rather indistinct scales, the end-bud lacking. Leaf-scars opposite, broadly crescent-shaped, low:, bundle-traces 3: stipulescars lacking. Winter-characters of Evodia rutaecarpa are pictured by Shirasawa, 270, pi. 10. Puberulent: buds gray-brown. E. Daniellii. Winter-character references to Zanthoxylum: --Z. ailanthoid.es. Shirasawa, 237, pi. 3. Z. alatum. Shirasawa, 239, pi. 3. Z. americanum. Blakeslee & Jarvis, 330, 522, pi.; Brendel, 31, pi. 3; Hitchcock (1), f, (3), 8, (4), 134, f. 12-13; Schneider, f. 85. Z. Bungei. Schneider, f. 85. Z. piperatum. Shirasawa, 239, pi. 2. Z. schinifolium. Shirasawa, 239, pi. 3. Foerste states in the Botanical Gazette for 1892 that vascular strands are found beneath the usual position of the larger prickles of Xanthoxylum even when these are aborted. Specialized outgrowths from a plant member are sometimes distinguished under the name emergences, particularly when they contain vascular elements. Orixa. (Family Rutaceae). Shrubs, glabrous: deciduous. fCi I-jv Twigs moderate, more or less 3 I I 1 1, I sided, sometimes zig-zag: pith "' ' rather small, pale', rounded, spongy. Buds sessile or forming short spurs, solitary, ovoid with about 10 broad scales. Leaf-scars alternate, half-round or obtusely triangular, moderate, low: bundletrace 1, C-shaped, compound: stipule-scars lacking. The winter-buds of Orixa, with the conspicuous pale margin of their scales, are quite unlike those of any other shrub or tree likely to be encountered. The wintercharacters of 0. japonica...