CHAP. XCI. CHENOPODIA‘CEX. DIO‘TIS. 1291 
Derivation. From dis, twice, and ous, dtos, an ear. The calyx of the female flower ends in two seg- 
ments, which fancy may compare to ears, although they more resemble horns: and this second 
idea is doubtless that referred to in Tournefort’s generic name Ceratiides, from keras, a horn, gen. 
keratos, and eidos, likeness. 
#1. D. Cerarér'pes W. The two-horned-calyxed Diotis. 
Identification. Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 368. 
Synonymes, A/xyris Ceratéides Lin. Sp. Pi, 1389.; Jacg. Icon. Rar., 1. t. 189. ; Ceratospérmum 
pappdsum Pers. ; A’xyris fruticdsa, fidribus foemineis lanatis, Gmel. Sib., 3. p. 17. No. 10. t. 2. f.1.; 
Achyranthes pappdsa Forsk. Descr.,48.; Krascheninnikdvia Guildenst. Act. Petrop., 16. p. 548. t.17. 5 
Urtica fdliis lanceolAtis, femininis hirsdtus, Roy. Lugdb., 210.; Ceratéides orientalis fruticdsa 
Elzxagni folio Tourn. Cor., 52.; Orientalisches Doppelohr, Ger. 
Engravings. Jacq. Ic. Rar., 1. t.189.; Gmel. Sib., 3. p. 17. No. 10. t. 2. £ 1.; Act. Petrop., 16. t. 17. ; 
and our fig. 1160. 
Description, §c. A shrub, a native of Siberia and Tartary. Introduced 
in 1780, and producing its obscure apetalous flowers in March and April. It 
grows 2 ft. or more high, much more across, 
and abounds in slender spreading branches. _ Its 
leaves are lanceolate, narrow, and alternate. The 
whole plant is hoary. The male flowers are very 
abundant, and disposed mostly in approximate 
axillary groups about the terminal part of the 
branches. The female flowers are less numerous, 
and mostly upon a lower part of the branch, 
axillary, and generally two in an axil. Both male 
and female flowers are sessile, or nearly so. The 
female flowers are not obvious. The male flowers 
are not showy; though their number, grouped 
character, and the yellow anthers prominent from 
them, render the flowering of the shrub obvious. 
They have a slight scent of a honey-like sweet- 
ness. The stocky part of this plant is persistently 
ligneous. D. Ceratéides thrives in a light soil, 
and is easily propagated by layers, or by cuttings 
inserted in the soil and kept covered with a hand-glass. Plants in the 
Cambridge Botanic Garden, in August, 1836, growing, some in calcareous 
soil, and one or more inheath mould, were about 2 ft. high, and with widely 
spreading recumbent branches. This shrub, therefore, appears particularly 
well adapted for rockwork ; and, if gardens were laid out with a view to the 
geographical or topographical distribution of plants, the D. Ceratdides, with 
the different species of Nitraria, Calligonum, &c., would form suitable species 
for the rockwork of Siberia. 
* D. lanata Pursh Fi. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 602., Nutt.Gen. N. Amer., 2. p.207., resembles D. Ceratéides, 
but is easily distinguished, at first sight, by the long, woolly, white tomentum which pervades all its 
— The stem is zigzag. The groups of flowers are so crowded as to produce the resemblance of 
spikes, 
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App. I. Half-hardy Species of Chenopodiaceae. 
Andbasis tamariscifolia L., Cav. Ic., 3. 293., is a curious little salsola-like plant, a native of Spain, 
where it grows 2ft. high. It was introduced in 1752; but, being of little interest, except to the 
botanist, it is rarely to be met with even in botanic gardens. A. aphflia L., Salsdla articulata Forst., 
is another plant of the same genus, a native of Asia Minor. : : 
Kochia prostrata Schr., Jacq. Au., 3. 294.; Salsdla prostrata L.; is a native of the south of Europe, 
growing to the height of 5 ft., with the general habit of a salsola. It is almost sufficiently hardy to 
stand in the open air without protection. A plant in the Cambridge Botanic Garden, in a partly 
open border, is a freely growing shrub, about 5 ft. high, with its lower branches prostrate, and its 
npper ones drooping. It is clothed with abundance of narrow, pointed, pubescent leaves, which are a 
ittle canescent., 
Bosea Yervamdra L., Walt. Hort., 24. t. 10., Encyc. of Plants, f. $453., is a native of the Canaries, 
where it grows to the height of 8 ft. or 10ft. A plant in the Horticultural Society’s Garden has 
stood out since 1834, against a wall, It is gouerely killed to the ground during winter, but grows up 
again vigorously during summer, and usually reaches from 5 ft. to 6 ft. high. . 
Camphorésma monspeliaca Schk. Hand., 1. t. 26., is a low heath-like shrub, a native of the south of 
Europe, common in various places in France ; for instance, at Avignon, on the ruins of the old castle. 
It is of a decumbent babit, with red bark to its young shoots, and with hairy narrow-pointed leaves, 
in groups along the branches. It is a most desirable plant for conservative rockwork ; and if trained 
against a wall, we have no doubt it would cover several square yards of wall in a very short time. 
Other Genera belonging to Chenopodidcee contain species which ag Shee reckoned half-hardy ; but 
as the wg hind readily found by turning to the enumeration in our Hortus Britannicus, we do not 
give them here. ; 
