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Title: Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954, ed Miller, Wilhelm, 1869- joint ed
Subjects: Gardening -- Dictionaries Plants -- North America encyclopedias
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page & Company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: UMass Amherst Libraries

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2267. Schizanthus pinnatus (X z^). SCHIZOLOBIUM (Greek, to cleave and hull; alludingto the manner of dehiscence). Legumindsce. About 2species of South American trees, with large bipinnateleaves, with numerous small leaflets, and fls. in axillaryracemes or terminal panicles. Calyx obliquely turbi-nate; segments imbricated, reflexed; petals 5, clawed,ovate or roundish, imbricated ; stamens 10, free; fila-ments somewhat scabrous at the base: ovary adnate tothe tube of the calyx: pod 1-seeded. The following hasbeen introduced into S. Calif, by Franceschi, who writesthat it has not yet proved a success. exc61sum, Vog. A large Brazilian tree, with fern-likebipinnate leaves about 4>2 ft. long, with the ultimateIfts. about 114 in. long: fls. yellow, in large panicles.R.H. 1874, p. 113. Y. W. Barclay. SCHIZ0N0TUS(Greek,sc7Hso,to split, and tio^os,back:the capsules were thought to split on the back, which,however, is not the case). RosAcew (Syn. Holodiscus).The name Holodiscus (meaning an en

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