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Ruscus ANDROGYNUS, a. CLIMBING 
ButcuHer’s Broom. 
KEE KEK EEE EEE EERE ERE 
Class and Order. 
Diac1a MonapELpPHia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Smivacez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Masc. Cal. inferus, 6-partitus, laciniis internis corolli- 
nis. Tubus antherifer, cylindricus, truncatus. 
Fam. Cal. ut in masc. Stylus 1. Stigma simplex. 
Bacca globosa, 3-locularis, loculis 2-spermis. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Ruscus * androgynus ; foliis margine floriferis. Wéalld. Sp. 
Pl. v. 4. p. 875. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. p. 421. 
(«.) foliis subcordato-acuminatis, floribus subsessilibus in 
capitulum multiflorum congestis—Sims Tab. nostr. 
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(y). foliis ovato-oblongis acuminatis, floribus solitariis, 
ae pedicellis florem equantibus. Bot. Mag. ¢. 1898. _ 
Ruscus latifolius; e foliorum sinu florifer et baccifer. Dll. 
Hort. Elth. p. 832. ¢. 250. f. 322. 
The general aspect of this plant is very different from the 
figure which bears the same name, at t. 1898 of the present 
work : but having seen intermediate states, Dr. Sims very 
judiciously has made it a variety. Our state of it is consi- 
dered as the a, it being the same with the original authority 
for the species, figured and described in Dittentus’s Hortus 
Elthamensis. 
* This word was originally written Bruscus, being latinized from the Celtic 
Beuskelen ; beus, signifying a bush, and kelen the holly. It is frequently 
called Thorn-bush or Dwarf Holly. ‘ 
