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• Notonia
  ...out a dozen fleshy herbs or under- shrubs, of Trop. Afr. and Asia, by many botanists included in Senecio. Heads discoid (without rays); style-branches with ovat
  2 KB (300 words) - 09:53, 19 February 2010
• Campanula Tenorii
  ...cemose, blue: caps, spherical. Apennines, near Naples.—This is referred by botanists to the Grecian species C. versicolor, which is typically taller, but is kep
  4 KB (502 words) - 17:04, 22 May 2009
• Passerina
  ...he head of a sparrow; or possibly after one of the Passerinis, two Italian botanists). Thymelaeaceae. Heath-like shrubs sparingly used in horticulture: lvs. sma
  4 KB (506 words) - 13:15, 22 June 2009
• Salix fragilis
  ...y)|hybrid]] between ''Salix decipiens'' and ''[[Salix alba]]''. Some other botanists regard ''Salix decipiens'' as itself being a hybrid between ''Salix fragili
  5 KB (770 words) - 17:37, 7 May 2010
• Sap
  ...y contents of a plant; an indefinite and undescriptive term little used by botanists.{{SCH}}
  4 KB (731 words) - 19:12, 7 May 2009
• Celosia cristate
  ...ted lvs. often have less dense crests. A. japonica, Mart., little known to botanists, is said to be a distinct garden plant with branching, pyramidal habit, eac
  4 KB (522 words) - 14:39, 16 June 2009
• Menispermum
  ...n 2 series; petals 6-8, shorter than the sepals. As conceived by the early botanists, Menispermum contained many species which are now referred to as Cocculus,
  2 KB (310 words) - 09:05, 5 January 2010
• Beautyberry
  ...e family [[Verbenaceae]]; between 40-150 species are accepted by different botanists. They are native to east and southeast [[Asia]] (where the majority of the
  4 KB (532 words) - 13:10, 10 September 2007
• Brassica juncea var. napiformis
  ...summer. The plant does not appear to have been brought to the attention of botanists until Bretschneider published an account of it in a French journal in 1881.
  2 KB (335 words) - 17:00, 16 February 2010
• Mimusops
  ...nd the names in the trade may not represent the species as now accepted by botanists. For a recent account of the W. Indian species, consult Pierre & Urban in S
  2 KB (335 words) - 00:07, 9 January 2010
• Spiraea alba var. latifolia
  ...43:417.—This and the preceding species have been referred by most American botanists to S. salicifolia. S. alba is chiefly found west, S. latifolia east of and
  4 KB (553 words) - 22:56, 30 August 2009
• Gleditsia caspica
  ...ida'') from eastern Asia, and is treated as a [[subspecies]] of it by some botanists, ''Gleditsia horrida'' subsp. ''caspica'' (Desf.) J.Paclt.<ref name=paclt>P
  3 KB (384 words) - 05:06, 28 July 2010
• Linosyris
  The genus Lynosyris is referred to as Aster by many botanists, the above species then becoming Aster Linosyris, Bernh. It is also known a
  2 KB (378 words) - 12:31, 11 December 2009
• Asphodelus
  ...genus in Jour. Linn. Soc. 15:268-272 (1877), refers forty species of other botanists to A. ramosus, the dominant type, of which he makes three subspecies. Those
  2 KB (351 words) - 08:43, 28 January 2010
• Cramp Bark
  ...is a species of ''[[Viburnum]]'', native to [[Europe]] and [[Asia]]. Some botanists also treat the closely related [[North America]]n species ''[[Viburnum tril
  4 KB (622 words) - 05:13, 3 October 2007
• Calochortus venustus
  ...h are strongly suggestive of the wings of a brilliantly colored butterfly. Botanists have variously divided this great group of allied forms between C. luteus a
  4 KB (561 words) - 14:39, 10 May 2009
• Ruscus
  ...Linn., are both natives of S. Eu., where they have been studied by several botanists, some of whom distinguish them by various characters, while others unite th
  2 KB (361 words) - 02:03, 7 January 2010
• Salvia wagneriana
  ...s. It is described sometimes as a herb and sometimes as a shrub by various botanists.<ref name="Clebsch">{{cite book|last=Clebsch|first=Betsy|coauthors=Carol D.
  2 KB (373 words) - 23:23, 10 May 2010
• Herpestis
  ...lt, grounds now and then. The name Herpestis is now given up by systematic botanists, the "nomina conservanda" of the Vienna code using Aublet's Bacopa for the
  3 KB (377 words) - 14:22, 17 November 2009
• Chaenomeles Maulei
  .... tricolor Hort. Dwarf shrub, with pink and white variegated lvs.— By some botanists this species is considered to be the typical C. japonica, and the preceding
  4 KB (577 words) - 11:10, 28 June 2009

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