132 MONOECIA— TETRANDRIA. Buxiis. 



A. glutinosa. Gcertn. v. 2. 54. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 4. 334. Comp. ed. 

 4.155. Hook.Lond.t.59. Scot. 27 \. 



A. n. 1 630. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 300. 



Alnus. RaiiSyn. 442. Ger. Em.]477.f. Lob. Ic.v.2. \9\.f. 



Trag. Hist. 1084./. Matt/i. Valgr. v.\.\27.f. Camer. Epit. 



68./. Loes. Priiss. \0.t.\. Dalech. Hist. 97./. 

 Betula Alnus. Linn.Sp. PL 1394, cc. Fl. Br. 1013. Engl. Bat. 



v.2\.t. 1508. 



B. emurginata. Ehrh. Arb. 9. 

 Common Alder. Hunt. Evel. Sylv. 240. f. 



In watery meadows^ near lakes, rivers, or pools. 



Tree. March. 



Trunk crooked, rugged, of no great height ; with crooked, spread- 

 ing, round, smooth branches, glutinous when young. Leaves 

 roundish, obtuse, or lopped at the end, wavy, serrated, plaited, 

 glutinous, of a deep shining green, with one rib, and many 

 transverse parallel veins, downy at their origin beneath. Sti- 

 pidas roundish, entire. Barren catkins long, pendulous 3 fertile 

 short, oval, more spreading, permanent. 



Wood reddish, hard, though brittle, used chiefly for women's clogs 

 or pattens. The bark dyes linen of a dull red, and with iron 

 brown, or black. Alders have the colour and effect of oaks, in 

 wet boggy situations, where the latter will not thrive. 



431. BUXUS. Box-tree. 



Linn. Gen. 486. Juss. 388. Fl. Br. 1013. Tourn. t. 345. Lam. 

 t.76]. Gcertn. t.lOS. 



Nat. Ord. Tricoccce, Linn. 38. EupJwrhice, Juss. 96. 



Barr,Jl, Cal. of 3 roundish, obtuse, concave, spreading, 

 coloured leaves. Pet. 2, roundish, concave, spreading, 

 similar to the calyx, but rather larger. Filam. 4, awl- 

 shaped, spreading, about the length of the petals. Arith, 

 2-lobed, incumbent. A slight rudiment o{ a germen, 



Fert.Jl. from the same bud. Cat. inferior, of 4 roundish, 

 obtuse, concave, spreading, permanent leaves. Pet, 3, 

 roundish, concave, like the calyx, but larger. Germ, su- 

 perior, nearly globular, with 3 blunt angles, or lobes. 

 Styles 3, spreading, short, thick, permanent. Stigm, ob- 

 tuse, rough. Caps, globular, with 3 spreading beaks, of 

 3 cells, and 3 valves, bursting elastically. Seeds 2 in each 

 cell, erect, parallel, oblong, slightly compressed ; exter- 

 nally rounded. 



Evergreen shrubs, or small trees, with rigid, smooth, stalk- 

 ed, opposite, entire leaves. Fl. aggregate, from axillary- 

 buds, whitish. Fr. green. 



