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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Pogonia (To the species described on p)

To the species described on p. 175, Vol. III., the following should now be added; P. Barklyana (Sir Henry Barkly's). fl. green, with a darker green flush; sepals lanceolate, acuminate; petals broader and shorter; lip trifid, the side laciniae angulate, the middle one acuminate, reflexed at apex; peduncle nearly 2ft. long, sometimes eleven-flowered. l. large, roundish, apiculately sinuate cordate at base, 9in. broad; petioles 9in. high. 1885.

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