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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Heliotropium

To the species and varieties described on p. 131, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

H. incanum (hoary). fl. in dichotomously corymbose spikes; corolla white, twice as long as the calyx, rather hispid outside; peduncles hairy. June. l. thick, ovate, acute, crenulated, wrinkled above and lined with retrograde asperities, softer and hoary beneath. Stem shrubby. h. 2ft. to 3ft. Peru. Greenhouse.

H. i. glabrum (smooth). fl. purple. l. rough, broadly elliptic, destitute of hairs. 1884. (G. C. n. s., xxii., p. 809.)

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