America – August
America
A very handsome hardy perennial.
Aganosma
(from aganos, mild, and osme, a smell; scent of flowers). ORD.
Alangium
(from Alangi, the Malabar name of the first species). ORD.
Alternanthera
(in allusion to the anthers being alternately barren). ORD.
Amerimnon
(from a, privative, and merinna, care; in allusion to the little attention the plant requires; name originally applied to the House-leek). SYN.
Ampelopsis
(from ampelos, a vine, and opsis, resemblance; resembling the Grape Vine in habit, and to which it is closely allied). SYN. Quinaria. ORD.
Amsonia
(in honour of Charles Amson, a scientific traveller in America). ORD.
Ananas
(from nanas, the South American name for the Pine Apple). SYN.
August
l. opposite, sessile, obovateoblong, pointed, smoothish. h. 1ft. North America, 1812.
Anona
(Anona is the name applied to these plants in St. Domingo). Custard
Anthurium
(from anthos, a flower, and oura, a tail). Tail Flower. ORD.
August
l. profoundly sinuated or pinnatifid, glaucescent; nerves with prickly bristles, blotched with white. Stem prickly. Mexico, 1827.