132 MONOECIA—TETRANDRIA. Buxus. 



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

 4.155. Hook. Lond.t.oO. Scot. 171. 



A. n. 1370. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 300. 



Alnus. Rail 81)11.442. Ger. Em. \477. f. Lob. lc.v.2.\9\.f. 



Trag. Hist: 1084. f. Matth. Valgr. v.\. 127. /. Camer. Epit. 



68./. hoes. Pruss. \0.t.\. Dalech. Hist. 97 .f. 

 Betula Alnus. Linn. Sp. PI. 1394, a. Fl. Br. 1013. Frngl. Bot. 



v.2l.t. 1508. 



B. emarginata. Ehrh. Arh. 9. 

 Common Alder. Hunt. Evel. Si/lv. 240./. 



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- 

 pulas roundish, entire. Barren catkins long, pendulous ; 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. 4S6. Juss.3SS. FL Br.\0\3. Tourn. t.34r>. Lam. 

 t.76l. Gc^rtn. 1. 1 08. Juss.JiL Euphorb. 13. 1. 1 ./. 3. 



Nat. Ord. Tricoccce. Linn. 38. Euphorbia. 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. Anth. 

 2-lobed, incumbent. A slight rudiment of a germen. 



Fert.Ji. from the same bud. Cal. 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, shghtly compressed ; exter- 

 nally rounded. 



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

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

 buds, whitish. Fr. green. 



