The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Fagelia

(named after Caspar Fagelius, a cultivator of plants). ORD. Leguminosae. An ornamental decumbent, greenhouse, twining sub-shrub, clothed with clammy hairs. For culture, see kennedya.

F. bituminosa (pitchy). fl. yellow keel tipped with violet, on long, distant pedicels; recemes axillary. April to September. l. petiolate, pinnately-trifoliolate; leaflets rhomboid; stipules ovate, acuminated. Cape of Good Hope, 1774. (b. R. 261, under name of Glycine bituminosa.)

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