OCTANDRIA—MONOGYNIA. Acer. 229 



a corolla in texture, crimson all over ; the tube externally hairy. 

 Berries scarlet, the favourite food of some species of Finch, 

 Loxia. There is a variety with white Jlowers, and the berries 

 also vary to a yellow or orange hue. 



2. D. Lauveola. Spurge-laurel. 



Clusters axillary, simple, each of about five flowers, droop- 

 ing, shorter \han the smooth, obovate-lanccolate, ever- 

 green leaves. Calyx obtuse. 



D. Laureola. L?«/i. % P/. 510. rf'i/W. t,. 2. 418. FL Br. 42\. 

 EngL Bot. V. 2. ^ 1 19. Hook. Scot. 119. Jacq. Austr. t. 183. 

 Bidl. fr. t. 37. Ehrh. Arh. 153. 



Daphnoides verum, vel Laureola. Gesn. Fasc. 1.7. /. 6./. 9. 



Thvmekea n. 1025. HaU. IFist. v. 1 . 439. 



Laureola. RaiiSyn.AGj. Docl. Pempt.36o.f. Ger. Em. \404JJ. 



L. et Daphnoides. Lob. Ic. 3G8./,/. 



In woods, thickets, and hedges. 



Shrub. March. 



Whole i)lant very smooth. Stem 2 or 3 feet high, with round, pale 

 brown, upright, tough and pliant branches, crowned with tufts 

 of evergreen leaves, elegantly drooping in all directions, and 

 about 2 or 3 inches long, on short footslalks. FL deep green, 

 with orange anthers, 4 of which are just visible in the throat of 

 the calyx. Their scent, resembling saflVon, with an overpower- 

 ing sweetness, is })erceptible in an evening only, and has been 

 observed by very few people. An oval, concave bractea accom- 



• })anits each short partial stalk, at the base. Berry oval, black, 

 l^^very part is very acrid, producing, like the Mezereon, a burn- 

 ing heat in the mouth and throat. 



The charming D. pontica, long very little known, and now so hardy 

 in our gardens, has many-flowered upright clusters, cdch of 

 whose long partial stalks' bears 2 Jhmcrs ■ by which it dilVeis 

 es.sentiallyVrom our Enurrola. The calyx moreover is taper- 

 pointed. The characters of these two species arc not well con- 

 trasted by LinuLcu-s or his copiers. 



219. ACER. Maple. 



Linn. Gen. ^VK). Juss. 20 1 . FL Dr. 12 1 . Toinn. /.386. Lam. t.SW. 



Gcrrtn. t. I Hi. 

 Nat. Oril. TrihilaliC. Linn. 23. Accra. Juss. 66. 

 C(d. inferior, of 1 leaf; Hat and orbicular at the bn.se; the 



margui in .5 doej), acute, oblong, permanent segments. 



Pet. 5, obovate-oblong, of the sha))e and substance of the 



segments of the calvx, and altcrjjale with them. Filain. 



awl-shapcd, inserted Into the calyx. Anth. pellate, round- 



