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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Lindheimera

(named in honour of Ferdinand Lindheimer, the discoverer of the plant). ORD. Compositae. A monotypic genus, the species being an erect, scabrous-hirsute, branched, greenhouse or half-hardy annual herb, requiring similar culture to Zinnia (which see).

L. texana (Texan).* fl.-heads yellow, disposed in an irregular leafy corymb; achenes scabrous-tuberculate or slightly hispid; involucral scales in two rows; receptacle flat. August and September. l. alternate, oblong, thickly toothed. h. 1ft. to 2ft. Texas.

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