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Hen and chicken Daisy; in this beautiful monster not only the impletion or doubling of the petals takes place, as described in the note on Alcea; but a numerous circlet of less flowers on peduncles, or footstalks, rise from the sides of the calyx, and surround the proliferous parent. The same occurs in Calendula, marigold; in Heracium, hawk-weed; and in Scabiosa, Scabious. Phil.
On the other hand, your professional nature-lover is sometimes a little over-familiar with his subject. He knows the names of all the things, and he does not spare you. Besides, he is subtle. The prominent features are too familiar to him, and he goes into details. What respectable townsman, for instance, knows what "scabiosa" is? It sounds very unpleasant.
Scabiosa, often known as "Mourning Bride," is an excellent plant for vase-use, and deserves more attention than it has heretofore enjoyed. Its flowers are quite unlike most other annuals in color, and will be appreciated on that account. The dark purple varieties combine delightfully with those of a lighter tone in yellow, and with pure whites.
Because of certain fluids which the roots excrete from their slender extremities; and in this manner the likings and antipathies of certain plants may be accounted for. Thus, it is well known that the creeping thistle is hurtful to oats, erigeron acre to wheat, scabiosa arvensis to flax, &c. Why are some resins odorous?
Woodville's Med. Bot. p. 551. SCABIOSA succisa. DEVIL'S BIT. The Leaves and Roots. These stand recommended as alexipharmics, but they have long given place to medicines of greater efficacy. SCANDIX Cerefolium. Chervil. The Leaves.
The large-flowered varieties are quite as ornamental as Peonies, as long as they last. Portulacca. Low grower, spreading until the surface of the bed is covered with the dark green carpet of its peculiar foliage. Flowers both single and double, of a great variety of colors. Does well in hot locations, and in poor soil. Of the easiest culture. Scabiosa. Very fine. Especially for cutting.
Then there are to be eschscholtzias, dahlias, sunflowers, zinnias, scabiosa, portulaca, yellow violas, yellow stocks, yellow sweet-peas, yellow lupins everything that is yellow or that has a yellow variety. The place I have chosen for it is a long, wide border in the sun, at the foot of a grassy slope crowned with lilacs and pines, and facing southeast.
The hen-and-chicken type occurs even in other families and is known to produce most curious anomalies, as with Scabiosa, the supernumerary heads of which may be produced on long stalks and become branched themselves in the same manner. Petalody of the stamens is well known to be the ordinary type of doubling.
WILLOW. The leaves produce a yellow colour. SCABIOSA succisa. DEVIL'S BIT SCABIUS. The dried leaves produce a yellow colour. SERRATULA tinctoria. SAW-WORT. The whole herb produces a yellow tincture. SENECIO Jacobaea. RAGWORT. The roots, stalks, and leaves, before the flowering season, give out a green colour which can be fixed on wool. STACHYS sylvatica.
The same is said to happen to Scabiosa, or Devil's bit, and some other plants, as valerian and greater plantain; the new fibrous roots rising round the caudex above the old ones, the inferior end of the root becomes stumped, as if cut off, after the old fibres are decayed, and the caudex is drawn down into the earth by these new roots. Dodder. Four males, two females.
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