ADDISONIA COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS AND POPULAR DESCRIPTIONS OF PLANTS V11

ADDISONIA COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS AND POPULAR DESCRIPTION OF PLANTS Volume 11 1926 LIBKARY New YORK ttO!ANiCAL PUBLISHED BY THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN (ADDISON BROWN FUND) THB SCIENCE PEES3 PEINTINQ COMPANY LANCASTER, PA CONTENTS Part JUNB 30, 1926 PLATE 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 PAG:B Graptopetalum Bartramii Thunbergia Gibsoni Chelone glabra Tecomaria capensis Osmia borinquensis I^apeyrousia cruenta 11 Allophyton mexicanum Lycoris squamigera 13 15 Part October 362 Erythronium americanum Ginkgo biloba 363 L,espedeza Sieboldii 364 365 366 367 368 Cercidiphyllum japonicum 361 /^ 13, 1926 17 19 21 23 Nymphoides Humboldtianum 25 Catharanthus roseus Primula kewensis 27 Gaillardia 29 31 Amblyodon Part December 369 9, 1926 33 372 Deeringothamnus pulchellus Azalea viscosa glauca Teedia lucida Turraea floribunda 373 Corylus pontica 41 374 375 376 Eryngium aquaticum 43 Pinus peuce Ilex decidua 45 370 371 35 37 39 47 iii Addisonia iv Part January 1927 377 Torenia Fournieri 49 378 Desmothamnus lucidus 51 379 380 Tricyrtis hirta Adenoropium Berlandieri 53 381 Helianthus tuberosus 57 382 Aubrietia deltoidea 383 Triphora trianthopliora 59 61 384 Ipomoea quinquefolia Index 55 63 65 i.^:-^^-''^^:;''^-^m-l.;:s:t;^ ADDISONIA COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS AND POPULAR DESCRIPTIONS OF PLANTS Volume Number 11 MARCH, 1926 PUBLISHED BY THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN (ADDISON BROWN FUND) JUNE 30, 1926 ANNOUNCEMENT A bequest to the New York Botanical Garden by Addison Brown, established the made President, Judpe its late ADDISON BROWN FUND "the income and accumulations from which shall be applied to the founding and publication, as soon as practicable, and to the maintenance (aided by subscriptions therefor), of a high-class magazine bearing my name, devoted exclusively to the illustration by colored plates of the plants of the United States and its territorial possessions, and of other plants flowering in said Garden or its conservatories; with suitable descriptions in popular language, and any desirable notes and synonymy, and a brief statement of the known properties and uses of the plants illustrated." The preparation and publication of the work have been referred to Dr John Hendley Barnhart, Bibliographer, and Mr Kenneth Rowland Boynton, Head Gardener Addisonia is published as a quarterly magazine, in March, June, Each part consists of eight colored September, and December The subscription price is plates with accompanying letterpress $10 annually, four parts constituting a volume The parts will not be sold separately Address: THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN BRONX PARK NEW YORK CITY ADDISONIA SiUfscribers are advised to bind each voluvie of as completed in order to avoid Possible losi or misplacement of tfie parts; nearly the whole remainder of the edition of Volumes to 10 has ^ been made up into complete volumes, and but few separate parts can be supplied ADDISONIA PLATE 353 J< r f GRAPTOPETALUM BARTRAMII K Addisonia (Plate 353) GRAPTOPETALUM BARTRAMII Bartram's Stonecrop '^^^' Native of x4rizona Orpine Family Family Crassulaceae Graptopetahcm Bartramii Rose, YORK TanicaL 'jARDHN sp nov Many American species of Crassulaceae have been discovered in recent years Among them are several which deserve to be grown as ornamentals study of the wealth of material now available A has led to the recasting of the generic lines in this family and the establishing of a number of new genera To one of these belongs the subject here illustrated already furnished two subjects for In our account of the plant plates 247 and 304) illustrated by pl,ate 304 we gave some information regarding the genus and told of the rediscovery of G Rusbyi by Edwin B Bartram In February, in southeastern Arizona in 1920 and January, 1923, in the same collected Bartram Mr general region, although 1923, from a different mountain, a plant somewhat similar in size and apHis herbarium specimen of this was first taken to be pearance But Mr Bartram felt quite certain form of G Rusbyi a simply that it was different, and when living specimens were afterward Not sent in it was observed that they were abundantly distinct and also in but the different the leaves are color, shape very only The genus Graptopetalum has this journal (see In G Rusbyi the flowers are arranged in secund in G Bartramii the inflorescence is an equilateral while racemes, These specimens flowered in October, 1923, and again panicle in October, 1925, when our illustration was made very abundantly We take great pleasure in naming the new species for Mr Bartram, who not only discovered it but first recognized that it was distinct from G Rusbyi Although Mr Bartram is especially a moss inflorescence student, he has collected also many interesting flowering plants This plant grows at an altitude of 5000 feet on ledges in Flux Canyon, Patagonia Mountain, Santa Cruz County, Arizona In cultivation the flowering stalks begin to grow early in June but develop very slowly, and the flowers not open until the last of October and early November The flowers with their banded petals Addisonia are very attractive, but they have a strong disagreeable odor resembles very much that of the stink-horn fungus, which Bartram's stonecrop forms dense rosettes of twenty or more leaves, The leaves are fiat or someusually growing in cespitose clusters what concave above, more or less fleshy, bluish green with reddish margins and tip, an inch to two and one half inches long, ovate to From several broadly spatulate with acuminate tip, and glabrous of the upper leaves two to seven flowering stems are produced, becoming eight to twelve inches long and bearing fleshy bract-like leaves below and forming above a rather strict panicle or sometimes a simple raceme The branches of the panicle are one- to threeflowered and are produced each from the axil of a bract; the pedicels are short The sei)als are ovate, small, about one fifth of an inch The corolla-bud is acute and strongly 5-angled; the corolla long is about half an inch long, at first with erect lobes but on the second day more or less spreading or nearlj- rotate and then an inch or more broad; after anthesis the lobes become erect again; its tube is a little shorter than the calyx; the lobes or petals are narrow, pointed, and beautiful!}- spotted or banded with red or brown, especially on the upper side The ten stamens are attached to the top of the corolla-tube, short, erect the first day, but on the second reflexed behind the petals; the anthers are red; the five carpels are erect and tipped bj- a very short style J Explanation of — Pl.\te 3.—Flower, Gynoecium, X stem Fig split Fig N Rose 1.— Basal rosette Fig 2.—Upper part of flowering Fig 4.— Petal, with three stamens, X Fig open Addisonia 58 The Jerusalem -artichoke is grown usually as a food for pigs, which and allowed to gather the crop themselves The tubers, which mature in about five months, grow in clusters of from thirty to fifty close around the thick, fleshy root, and are irThere are white, yellow, red, and purple regularh' pear-shaped The tubers are often used for human food, and resemble varieties are turned into the fields The tubers may be left in potatoes closely in their composition the ground over the winter without harm, but should not be allowed to freeze out of the ground The plants commonly yield a crop of from two hundred to five hundred bushels per acre, and crops of one thousand bushels per acre are recorded The plants are propagated like potatoes, by their tubers They thrive well in poor soil where no other crop can be profitably grown The plant grows in moist soil from Nova Scotia and Ontario to Manitoba, Georgia, Arkansas, and Kansas; also grows along roadsides and in waste places in the east where escaped from cultivation by the Indians Probably native in the western part of The Jerusalem-artichoke its range a perennial pubescent herb, two to ten feet tall, usually branching above, and arising from a tuberous edible rootstock, which forms underground runners, that in turn become tuberous The leaves are four to twelve inches long, becoming smaller towards the upper part of the stem, obovate to oblanceois very rough-hairy above and soft-hairy and lighter green beneath They taper abruptly to a winged petiole or in some cases are sessile; sharply serrate, sometimes deeply so, and long-acuminate The involucres are borne in branching panThe bracts are in several series, icles, each head from a leaf -axil linear to linear-lanceolate, one half inch to one inch long, ciliate and rough-pubescent on both sides The receptacle is flat and chaffy The ray-flowers are neutral, with yellow ligules, an inch to an inch and a half long The disk-flowers are yellow and perfect The corolla consists of five ovate petals united into a long tube, which is swollen at the base and then contracted where it is inserted on the ovary The five stamens are united in a ring around the style The anthers are dark brown, lanceolate, twice as long as the filaments, and with ovate appendages The ovary is a one-celled and late in outline, bright green, one-ovuled carpel swollen at the base late and recoiled The style is longer than the stigma, slightly The stigma is two parted, the two parts lanceoThe pappus consists of two deciduous scales dry gray-brown achene, flattened on the dorsal and ventral sides, slightly pubescent at the tip; about one fifth of an inch long The fruit is a Edward — Explanation OF Plate Fig Branch in flower —Chaff and a flower, X Fig 4.— Achene, X J Fig Alexander — A tuber Fig PLATE 382 ADDISONIA LEXOa AUBRIETIA DELTOIDEA Addisonia 59 (Plate 382) AUBRIETIA DELTOIDEA Purple Rock-cress Native of the Levant Mustard Family Family Brassicaceae Alyssum deltoideum 1763 I, Sp PI ed 2, 908 Farseiia deltoidea R Br in Ait Hort Kew ed Aubrieiia deltoidea DC Syst 2: 294 1821 4: 97 1812 named after Claude Aubriet, the French artist who Tournefort on his famous voyage to the I^evant in accompained and the 1700-1702; specific name deltoidea was given to this species on account of the deltoid shape of its leaves It is said to have been introduced into cultivation in Europe from the lycvant in 1710 The genus is very different from Bcrteroa in its habit and its enAubrietia was tire petals, The and from Alyssiim and oblong fruit which give the foliage a in its saccate calyx leaves are covered with stellate hairs, silky appearance There are perhaps half a dozen species of Aubrietia, but the forms in cultivation are nearly all horticultural vatieties of many A del- The var purpurea is nearly or quite identical with the origiform of the species As we know them in gardens, the varieties toidea nal are so near each other in character that it is very difficult to identify them, and they vary a great deal from seed They all agree, however, in their manner of carpeting rocks and walls with dense dwarf cushions of compact rosettes of leaves, which in spring are clothed with beautiful purplish blue flowers There are two variegatedleaved forms, which produce excellent effects in rock-garden work Thirteen varieties are grown in The New York Botanical Garden, where they are entirely hardy purple rock-cress attains a height of from two to twelve inches The leaves are oblong-spatulate, deltoid, or rhomboid, with one or two teeth on either side, grayish, and narrowed into a very short petiole The flowers are in few-flowered, lax clusters, the violet or purple petals twice the length of the cal3rx The Edmund Fig Southwick Fig — A deltoidea erubescens Fig — A deltoidea, —A deltoidea olympica Fig —A deltoidea graeca Explanation OF Plate typical form B ADDISONIA PLATE 383 O^ TRIPHORA TRIANTHOPHORA Addisonia 61 (Plate 383) TRIPHORA TRIANTHOPHORA Nodding Pogonia Native of eastern North America Orchid Family Family Orchidaceak Areihusa trianthophora Sw Sv Vet.-Akad Nya Handl Arelhusa parviflora Michx Kl Bor Am 2: 160 1803 Areihusa pendiila Willd Sp PI 4; 82 1805 Triphorapendulal>inX.i.Qen.2:\92> 21: 230 1800 1818 Pogonia pendula Lindl Bot Reg-, pi 90S 1825 Pogonia Irianlhophora B.S.P Prel Cat N Y 52 1888 Triphora Irianlhophora Rydb in Britton, Man 298 1901 This orchid appears to be generally distributed throughout the it is reported from Canada It seems to be nowhere common, with the exception of a rather broad belt in central New Hampshire; and there it is decidedly fugitive and periThe plants grow in hollows under beech odic in its appearance of twenty to one hundred individuals in colonies I and oak trees, in an area of not more than thousand seen have plants fully twenty one square mile The following year less than five hundred plants were found; a year later the number dwindled to two, and the year eastern United States, and was d'scovered Two years later the as in the first year mentioned This reas abundant were plants markable periodicity seems in some way bound up with the peculiar vegetative reproduction of the plant, and doubtless explains why some collectors have been unable to find the plant where others after that not a single plant have' recorded The it as abundant root-system is very different from that of any other orchid It occurs in the upper strata found in the northern United States of humus, apparently never penetrating tially it tuber to the soil below Essen- consists of a single ovoid or pyriform translucent white From the lower portion of the flowering stem, a number of end of ten or have twelve well-grown plant may these stolons, with tubers ranging in size from a pinhead to a third of an inch or more in length The whole plant is very brittle, and this is true especially of the If, however, a plant is carefully reroot-system and the stolons moved from the humus in which it grows, and the root-system carefully studied, a small scar or process will be found at the tip of the mature tuber Each plant apparently blooms but once The substolons grow out a smaller tuber in a horizontal direction, each bearing at the A 62 Addisonia sequent decay of the mature tuber cuts off the small tubers at the ends of the stolons; each of these in due season produces a bud, in turn forms a new plant In this wa^^ the large colonies are formed, and thus, too, the extraordinary periodicity is explained No sign of the species can be seen until the end of Jul}' or early which August Then the sharp stiff tip of the stem, with the leaves folded In about closely about it, pushes its way through the leaf-mould a week or ten days the blossoms appear At night and during unfavorable weather conditions the flowers close and nod When conditions are right, every plant opens iiis, its flowers wide, and the however, only once or twice during the Fertilization is effected by small bees of the genus Halicbut the seed is rarely if ever ripened in the northern states pedicel season is erect; this occurs, The nodding pogonia The a small erect watery herb, three to eight leafy stem is deeply tinged with magenta and is somewhat striate The few leaves are alternate, ovate to The three to orbicular, clasping, rather fleshy, and dull green eight (rarely more) axillary liowers are white or very slightly maAt full authesis genta-tinged, and are borne on slender pedicels these pedicels are erect or slightly recurved, but in bud and very soon after pollination they droop, whence the common name of nodding pogonia The sepals and petals are lanceolate, spreading, about two thirds of an inch long The labellum is ovate, somewhat threeis inches in height lobed, not crested, but with three prominent bright green ner\-es; there are no glands at the base of the lip as in Pogonia The edges of the lip become incurved after pollination The anther is fixed, not hinged and mobile as in Pogonia The pollen is a deep rich magenta- violet The capsule is pendulous, somewhat hexagonal, and retains the withered perianth at its apex Albert E ItOwnes PLATE 384 ADDISONIA IPOMOEA OUINOUEFOLIA Addisonia 63 (Plate 384) IPOMOEA QUINQUEFOLIA Small White Morning-glory Native of tropical America Family ConvolvuIvACe^aej Morning-gi^ory Family 1753 I< Sp PI 162 Convolvulus quinquefolius 'L, Syst ed 10 923 1759 Batatas quinquefolius Choisy, Conv Rar 127 1838 Merremia quinquefolia Hallier*f Bot Jahrb 16: 552 1893 Ipomoea quinqnefolia The genus Ipomoea consists of several hundred species, widely most numerous in tropical regions The species are extremely various; most of them are twining or prostrate herbaceous vines, but some are erect plants, and they exhibit great differences in shape of leaves and in size and color of flowers All distributed, but agree, however, in having the styles united, the stigmas globose, the stamens and styles not exserted and their capsular fruit deThe pollen-grains are smooth in some species, hiscent by valves tuberculate in others; in some the seeds are glabrous, in others pubescent or woolly The small white morning-glory, called Batatilla blanca in Porto Rico, grows on banks and in thickets in dry soil on many islands It is a of the West Indies and in continental tropical America slender vine, sometimes about six feet long, twining or trailing, glabrous or with some long hairs The slender stalked leaves are palmately divided into five (rarely three or four) sessile leaflets, which are oblong to lanceolate, pointed, toothed, and about two inches long or shorter The flowers are few together in long-stalked axillary clusters, their pedicels nearly filiform; they have five somesepals about an inch long; the white or pale yellow corolla is nearly an inch broad, with five short lobes, the globose capsule is about one third of an inch in diameter; the two to four seeds are puberulent what unequal ovate-oblong Mrs Home's painting, here reproduced, was vine at Mayaguez, Porto Rico, in 1923 made from a wild N L Britton Explanation OF Plate Fig 1.— A flowering branch Fig 2.— A fruit INDEX Bold-face type is used for the Latin names of plants illustrated ; small capitals for Latin names of families illustrated and for the names of the authors of the text; italics for other Latia names, including synonyms Acanthaceae: Thundergia 354 Acanthus family, Batatilla blanea, 63 Benzoin aestivale, 18 Giisoni, pi Berteroa, 59 Betulaceae: Adenoropium, 55 Berlandieri, 55, Edward Alexander, Johnston BiGNONiACEAE pi 356 Borclchausenia lucida, 37 cidiphyllum japonicum, 23; Lapeyrousia cruenta, 11; Lespedeza Sieholdii, 21; Lycoris squa^nigera, 15; Nymphoides Humioldtianum, 25; Pinus peuce, 45; Tecomaria capenThunhergia Gibsoni, 3; sis, 7; Torenia Fournieri, 49; Tricyrtis hirta, 53; Turraea floribunda, 39 gera, pi 360 Amaryllis, Hall 's, 15 Amaryllis Hallii, 15 Amaryllis family, 15 aquatienm, 374 Ammocallis rosea, 27 pi BoYNTON, Kenneth Eowland, and Poole, Edward William: Primula Andromeda, lucida, 51 nitida, 51 clieUus, pi Tceivensis, 29 Bkassicaceae pi 382 Deeringothamnus pul369 Aubrietia : deltoidea, Britton, Nathaniel Lord: Ipomoea quinquefolia, 63; Osmia borinquensis, 9; Teedia lucida, 37 Buckbean family, 25 Anomatheca cruenta, 11 Antholyza, 11 Apocynaceae capensis, BoYNTON, Kenneth Eowland: Cer- : : Tecomaria : Birch family, 41 Mexicanum, 13, plate 359 Alyssum deltoideum, 59 Amaryllidaceae squamiLycoris Annonaceae pi capensis, radicans, Allophyton, Purple, 13 Allophyton, 13 Eryngium pontica, Bigonia, : Azalea viscosa glauca, 35; Eryngium aquaticum, 43; Erytlironium americamim, 17; Helianthus tuberosus, 57; Ilex decidua, 47 Ammiaceae: Corylus 373 plate 380 Catharanthus roseus, 366 Aquifoliaceae: Ilex decidua, pi 376 : Buddleia, 21 Bunch-flower family, 53 Bush-clover, Siebold's, 21 pi Arethusa, parviflora, 61 pendula, Caltha palustris, 17 Cape-honeysuckle, Capraria lucida, 37 61 trianthopliora, 61 Artichoke, 57 Asimina, 34 Aubrietia, 59 Oaeduaceae deltoidea, 59, plate 382 deltoidea eruhescens, 59 deltoidea graeca, 59 deltoidea olympica, 59 deltoidea purpurea, 59 Gaillardia Amblyodon, Carrot family, 43 Catharanthus, roseus, 27, plate 366 CercidiphylliM, Cercidiphyllaceae japonicum, pi 364 : Azalea, 35 viscosa glauca, 35, plate 370 Cercidipliyllum, japonicum, 23, plate 364 japonicum sinense, 23 Chelone, glabra, 5, plate 355 Clappia suaedaefolia, 55 Clytostoma callistegioides, Baccliaris Wrightii, 55 Balmony, Barnhart, John Hendley: : 368; Helianthus tuberosus, pi 881; Osmia borinquensis, pi 357 pi CJielone glabra, Batatas quinqiiefolius, 63 65 Addisonia 66 Cnldoscnhis, Ginkgo, o'j Cod-head, biloba, CONVOLYCLACEAE folia, pL 384 : Ipomoea quinquc- Convolvulus quittquefoUus, G3 Coreopsis cardaminefolia, 55 Corylus, omericnna, 42 Colurna, 41 pontica, 41, plotr 57S Crassulaceak: Graptopetalum tramii, pi 353 GrapT;opetalum, Bartramii, plate, 362 biloba, pi 353 p?«fe 1, 362 E^isbyi, Gutierrezia eriocarpa, 55 Bar- Ci\}cosmio, 11 Cryptospora atiomala, 41 33 Custard-apple family, Scob/mns, 57 19, Ginkgo family, 19 Ginkgoaceae: Ginkgo Cijiiara Deeringothamnus, 33 Hazel, Pontine, 41 Heath, family, 35, 51 Helianthus, 57 a unit us, 57 tuberosus, 57, plate 381 tuberosus subcanescevs, 57 Ilepatica Hepatica, 17 Holly, Deciduous-leaved, 47 Holly family, 47 pulchellus, 33, plate 369 Drsmodium pcnduliflorum, 21 Desmothamnus, 51 Ilex, 47 Cassine, 47 lucidus, 51, plate 378 V it id us, 51 decidua, 47, plate Dionticola, 47 Dogbane family, 27 opaca, 47 Dog's-tooth Violet, 17 vertieillata, Ericaceae: Azalea viscosa glauca, pi 370; Desviothamnus lucidus, pi 378 Erjmgium, ami tlnistimim, 43 aauaticum, 43, plate 374 376 47 Tomitoria, 47 Ipomoea, 63 quinquefolia, 63, 2^?flfc 384 Iridaceae: Lapeyrousia cruenta, pi 358 Iris family, 11 Ixia, 11 yuccaefolium, 43 Jatropha Berlandieri, 55 Erytlironiura, americanum, 17, plate 361 Jerusalem-artichoke, Katsura, 23 Eupatorium, odoratum, Euphorbia, 55 Euphokbiaceae: Adenoropium landieri, pi 380 Eabaceae: 363 Lespedesa 57 Jicamilla, 55 angustatiim, 17 hracteatvm, 17 Dens-cnnis, 17 Sieholdii, Katsura family, 23 Ber- pi Lapeyrousia, Blood-spotted, Lapeyrousia, 11 cruenta, 11, plate 358 Lespedeza, bi color, 21 japonica, 21 Farsetin deltoidea, 59 Sieboldii, 21, plate 363 Fetterbush, 51 Figwort family, 5, 13, 37, 49 Fish-mouth, Floating-heart, 25 striata, 21 Gaillardia, Blunt-toothed, 31 Gaillardia, 31 Amblyodon, 31, plate 368 aristata, 31 Drvmmondii, 31 grandi flora, 31 Liliaceae: Erythronivm americanum, pi 361 Lily family, 17 Limnantlicvium Humboldtiamim, 25 Lochncra rosea, 27 LowNES, Albert Edgar: Triphora trianthophora, 01 Lycoris, aurra, 15 squamigera, 15, 2'?«^e megapotamica, 31 picta, 31 Ginkgo, 19 11 Mahogany family, 39 Maidenhair-fern tree, 19 360 67 Addisonia Melanthiaceae S79 Meliaceae: 372 Tricyrtis Mrta, pi : Turraea floribunda, Mentanthaceae boldtianum, : pi pi Nymphoides Hum365 Menyanthes trifoUata, 25 Merremia quinquefolia, 63 Primulaceae: Primula Monfbretia, 11 Morning-glory, Small White, 63 Morning-glory family, 63 Corylus Morris, Egbert Tuttle: pontica, 41 Mustard family, 59 N copier is Tcewensis, 29 Primrose, Kew, 29 Primrose family, 29 Primula, floribunda, 29 kewensis, 29, plate, S67 verticillata, 29 Tcewensis, pi 367 Pyrostegia venusta, Quercus Ilex, 47 Eattlesnake-master, 43 Rhododendron Chapmanii, 52 nitida, Eock-eress, Purple, 59 51 EosE, Joseph Nelson: Graptopetor lum Bartramii, Eydberg, Per Axel: Gaillardia Amblyodon, 31 Nerine aurea, 15 Nux Pontica, 41 Njnaiphoides, 25 aquaticum, 25 Humboldtianum, 25, plate 365 ScROPHULAKiAOEAE Allophyton mexicanum, pi 359; Chelone glabra, Teedia lucida, pi 371; pi 355; Torenia Fournieri, pi 377 indicum, 25 lacunosum, 25 : nymphaeoides, 25 Old-maid, 27 Orchid family, 61 Orchidaceae Triphora phora, pi 383 Orpine family, Osmia, Porto Eico, Osmia, : borinciuensis, odorata, 9, Shell-flower, triantho- Al- Periwinkle, 27 Pieris nitida, 51 Pinaceae: Pi7ms pence, pi 375 Pine, Macedonian White, 45 Pine family, 45 Pinus, Armandi, 45 cemira, 45 45 flexilis, 45 Icoraensis, 45 monticola, 45 parviflora, 45 peucs, 45, plate 375 Pogonia, Nodding, 61 Pogonia, pendula, 61 trianthophora, 61 Poole, Edward William, and BoynTON, Kenneth Eowland: Primula excclsa, 33 ; pulchellus, lucidus, 51 plate 357 Pandorea Bicasoliana, Pea family, 21 Pennell, Francis Whittier: lophyton mexicanum, 13 Penstemon, 5, 13 AdenorSmall, John Kunkel: opium Berlandieri, 55; Catharanthus roseus, 27; Deeringothamnus Desmothamnus Snake-head, SotJTHWicK, Edmund Bronk: Aubrietia deltoidea, 59 Spurge family, 55 Squirrel-banana, 33 Stenolobium alatum, Stonecrop, Bartram 's, Swamp-azalea, Glaucous-leaved, 35 Tecoma, capensis, Smithii, stans, Tecomaria, capensis, 7, plate 356 Nyassae, shirensis, Teedia, Shining, 37 Teedia, 37 lucida, 37, plate 371 pubescens, 37 Tetranema mexicanum, 13 Thistle family, 9, 31, 57 Thunbergia, Gibson 'a, Thunbergia, alata, erecta, fragrans, Gibsoni, 3, plate 354 Addisonia 68 grandiflora, Toad-lily, Japanese, 53 Tricyrtls, 53 hirta, 53, fiorlbunda, 39, plate S7S obtusifolia, 39 Torenia, Blue, 49 Yellow, 49 Torenia, 49 fava, 49 Foumieri, Turraea, 39 Turtle-bloom, Turtle-head, Vvularia hirta, 53 49, plate S77 plate S79 pUosa, 53 Triphora, pcndula, 61 trianthophora, 61, plate 38S Tritonia, 11 Trumpet-creeper family, Trumpet-vine, Turraea, Cluster -flowered, 39 Verbena ciliata, 55 Villarsia, 25 Humboldticna, 25 Vinca rosea, 27 Violet, Dog's-tooth, 17 Water-snowflake, 25 Watsonia, 11 White Pine, 45 Williams, Eobeet Statham: GinTcgo hiloba, 19 ... illustration by colored plates of the plants of the United States and its territorial possessions, and of other plants flowering in said Garden or its conservatories; with suitable descriptions in popular. .. in popular language, and any desirable notes and synonymy, and a brief statement of the known properties and uses of the plants illustrated." The preparation and publication of the work have been... Ipomoea quinquefolia Index 55 63 65 i.^:-^^-''^^:;''^-^m-l.;:s:t;^ ADDISONIA COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS AND POPULAR DESCRIPTIONS OF PLANTS Volume Number 11 MARCH, 1926 PUBLISHED BY THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL