14 HARDY TREKS AND SHRUnS. 



be found in some of the more heathy portions of our country j but if it were 

 80 to happen that I and a personage of this description were to meet, I do not 

 think that I should stand very long and cry out ^Vive Y Empereur/ that is, 

 if 1 could get him by any means into my clutches. But though I have never 

 met with the insect myself, I have occasionally found their empty cocoons 

 amongst the heath when on my oological and ornithological excursions through 

 the hills here; and I am credibly informed that the Moth itself has been 

 found, but of course rarely, so that I must find it a place in our fauna, and 

 live in the joyous hope of the "good time coming." 



The Death's Head Sphinx, (Acherontia Atropos.) — This species is also, or 

 at least has been, found with us. My highly-respected, and dearly- beloved 

 friend by all who knew him, and whose death was universally regretted, the 

 late, alas! Rev. Mr. Smith; and than whom a better or a kinder-hearted 

 being, save one, never trod this beauteous earth of ours, possessed one of these 

 Moths, which was taken in a potato field at Mount Clary, the seat of Alex. 

 Morison, Esq., of Bognie; it was a pretty specimen; I have seen it often, and 

 each time I did so the more I prized it. But although I have searched all 

 the potato fields round this anxiously and annually, and other places where 

 the species is most likely to be found, and I do wherever I go, I have 

 never as yet met with a specimen myself, so that I must set it down in this 

 meagre list of mine as one of the rarer of the Lepidoptera of Banfishire. 



Banff, October ISth., 1853. 



THE PROPAGATION OF HARDY TREES AND SHRUBS. 



BY J. Mc'iNTOSH, ESQ. 

 ( Continued from page 152, Vol. III.) 



ORDER XYII.— XANTHOXYLACEiE. 



The species found in British gardens are comprised in the following genera: — 



Xanthoxylum — Flowers, bisexual; calyx, three-five-parted, with an equal 

 number of petals and stamens; carpels, one-five, twovalved; leaves, simple, 

 tornate, abruptly and impari-pinnate. 



Ptelea — Flowers, bisexual; calyx, four- five-parted; petals, four-five; stamens, 

 four-five; fruit, compressed, two-three -celled; cells, winged; leaves, of three 

 leaflets, rarely of five leaflets. 



Ailantxis — Flowers, polygamous; calyx, five-cleft; petals, five; stamens, ten, 

 unequal; styles, three-five, arising from the notches of the ovaries; carpels, 

 three-five, membranous, one-celled, one-seeded; leaves, abruptly or impari-pinnate. 



G-ENUS I. 



Xanthoxylum, (Toothache Tree,) Dioccia Tri-Pentandria. — This is a low 

 deciduous tree, native of North America, from Canada to Virginia, in woods 

 near rivers. The bark and capsules are of a hot acrid taste, and are used for 

 relieving the pains of the toothache; a tincture of the bark is also used for 



