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curing rheumatism, the bark being imported from New York, and sold in 

 Covent Garden: the tree is common in most collections. Flowers, yellowish, 

 with red anthers; of easy culture in any common garden soil, and is readily 

 propagated by cuttings of the roots, or of the branches, by seeds and layers. 



Genus II. 

 Ptelea, (Shruhby Trefoil,) MonDccia Tetra-Pentandria. — A shrub or low 

 tree from North America, producing small greenish-white flowers in clusters, 

 easy of culture in any common soil, propagated by cuttings in the autumn 

 under hand-glasses, or by seeds. This plant should be pruned up to a single 

 stem, when it forms a handsome low tree. 



Genus III. 

 Ailantus, (Ailanto,) Polygamia Monaecia. — This tree is a native of China; 

 in France it is much planted as a tree for shading public walks, etc., in 

 company with the Tulip Tree, Horse-chestnut, the Plantain, etc. It grows 

 in any soil, but likes the shade; in France we have seen large trees growing 

 in chalky soils, where scarcely any other tree could exist. It is easily prop- 

 agated by seeds, suckers, roots, and cuttings. We would strongly recommend 

 this tree to the attention of coppice- wood planters, for various useful purposes. 



OEDEE XVIII.— COEIACEiE. 



This order consists of only one genus which is quite hardy; there are two 

 other species which are half-hardy. 



Genus I. 



Coriaria, (Coriaria,) Dioccia Decandria. A deciduous shrub from four to 

 five feet high. In its native country, namely, the south of Europe and north 

 of Africa, it is used for tanning and for dyeing black. M. Dumont asserts 

 that the leaves and berries are deadly poison both to man and beast. In 

 France the leaves have been used to adulterate senna leaves, and have been 

 known to produce fatal consequences, and M, Fee says that several of the 

 French soldiers, when in Catalonia, became stupified by eating the berries, and 

 that three of them died. 



OEDEE XIX.— STAPHYLEACEJE. 

 This order consists of one genus only, namely, 



Genus I. 

 Staphylea, (Bladder Nut Tree,) Pentandria Di-Trigynia. — Deciduous shrubs 

 propagated by seeds, suckers, and cuttings; the seeds should be sown as soon 

 as ripe. The nuts of Staphylea pinnata, in some parts of Europe, are strung 

 for beads by the Roman Catholics. In Germany the kernels are eaten by 

 children, and Gerrard says that in his time they were eaten, though not 

 relished, in England. 



OEDEE XX.— CELASTEACE^. 



Shrubs or low trees, chiefly deciduous, natives of both hemispheres, chiefly 

 remarkable for the form and colour of their fruits. All the species are readily 

 propagated by seeds, by cuttings in sand, and by layers. The genera are six. 



