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Book: Gardening Science - the Vegetable Kingdom
Chapter: Chapter 7: Plant Geography

Scitamineï¾µ and Liliaceï¾µ palms

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1119. The features of many plants are so obvious and characteristic as to strike every general observer. The Scitamineï¾µ, tree-heaths, firs, and pines, Mimosï¾µ, climbers, Cacteï¾µ, grasses, lichens, mosses, palms, Equisetaecï¾µ, arums, Pothos, Dracontium, Malvaceï¾µ, Orchideï¾µ, Liliaceï¾µ, &c. form remarkable groups, distinguishable at first sight. Of these groups, the most beautiful are the palms, Scitamineï¾µ, and Liliaceï¾µ, while the Gramineï¾µ include the bamboos, and the Musaceï¾µ the plantains, the most splendid of umbrageous plants.