ARBORETUM NOTES. 5: 
RHAMNACE/E. 
harder (quite bony in the ripe fruit), three-celled ; Pus. 
each cell nearly filled by a solitary erect seed.* 
In the Maremma of Tuscany, as I was told by 
my uncle, Mr. Fox,f it is one of the most common 
shrubs. Henry { observed it forming a great 
proportion of the thickets in that part of Bulgaria 
where our army was quartered in 1854. 
* See my Botanical Notes, No. 20. October, 1857. 
+ His Uncle, Henry Stephen Fox. 
} His brother, Colonel Bunbury. 
