1304 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 
Commercial Statistics. Price of plants, in the London nurseries, 1s. 6d. 
each, and seeds 6s. a quart; at Bollwyller, 2 francs; and at New York, 
25 cents. 
% 7. L. (B.) Diospy‘rus Pers. The Diospyrus-like Laurel, or Bay. 
Identification. Pers. Syn., 1. p.450. ; Bot. Mag., t. 1470. 5 where Dr. Sims states that Persoon’s epi- 
thet, Diospyrus, is an abbreviation of Michaux’s one of diospyrdides. 
Synonymes. L. Euésmus Diospyrus Nutt. Gen., 1. p. 259. ; L. diospyriides Miche. Fl. Bor. Amer., 
1. p. 243.; 2 L. melissefdlia Walt. Fl. Car., 134. Dr. Sims (Bot. Mag., t. 1470.) states that he has 
not much doubt that the ZL. melissefolia Waiter is identical with this species ; and he adds that 
Mr. Fraser, who was the friend of Walter, and editor of his work, always considered it as such, 
and has remarked that “ the leaves are not at all like those of the balm; but it was, probably, the 
scent, not the form, that suggested the appellation.”” 
Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 1470. ; and our Jig. 1172. 
Spec. Char., §c. Habit low, surculose, twiggy. Leaves oblong-oval and 
entire, the under side veiny and pubescent, deciduous. Flower buds and 
pedicels villous. Sexes dicecious. Fruit large. (Nett. Gen.,i. p. 259.) A 
running twiggy shrub, 2 ft. or 3 ft. high, in its 
native swamps, in Virginia and Carolina; intro- 
duced in 1810. Leaves opaque, oblong-oval, at- 
tenuated towards the base, entire, the under side 
veiny and pubescent, deciduous. Scales of the 
buds purple, villous. Younger branches villous. 
Sexes dicecious. Flower buds and pedicels villous. 
Flowers disposed in sessile umbeled groups, 3—5 
in a group. Perfect stamens 9. Gland-like bodies 
large, orange yellow. Fruit larger than that of , 
L. Benzoin, oblong-ovate, scarlet, upon thick and * 
distinct pedicels | Cotyledons large, thick, oily, 
attached by near their base to the remainder of the 
embryo. (Nutt. Gen.,i. p. 259.) It is what may be 
deemed the male sex that is represented in Bot. 2 ~* 
Mag., t. 1470., and our fig. 1172.; and inthe text of the Bot. Mag. is the 
following interesting information by Dr. Sims, on the structure of its 
flowers. There were 9 perfect stamens, and an imperfect ovary; and 6 
glands on short pedicels, resembling so many little yellow mushrooms, with 
a warty pileus : the anthers had 2cells each. (Bot. Mag.) L. Pseudo-Ben- 
zdin Michx. is supposed by Dr. Sims (Bot. Mag., t. 1471.) to be either 
identical with, or a slight variation from, this species. The only plant 
which we have seen bearing the name of L. Diospyrus is at White Knights, 
where it so closely resembles L. Benzoin, as to leave no doubt in our 
mind that Dr. Sims’s conjecture was right. 
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ge 8. L. (B.) mstiva‘tis L. The summer Laurel, or Willow-leaved Bay. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 529. ; Syst., 384. ; Mart. Mill., No, 24.; Willd. Sp. Pl.,2. p. 485. 
Synonymes. L. enérvia Mill. Dict., No. 8.; L. Eudsmus estivalis Nutt. Gen., 1. p. 259. ; Pond bush, 
Amer. ; Sommer Lorbeer, Ger. 
Engraving. Catesb. Car., 2. t. 28. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves oblong-acuminate, entire, glabrous, veiny, deci- 
duous. Flowers in umbels. Sexes polygamous. (Nutt. Gen.,i. p. 259.) 
Dr. Sims has noted, incidentally, in the Bot. Mag., t. 1470., that there 
are two different specimens of the L. estivalis inthe Banksian herbarium ; 
that one of them, the flowering specimen from Jacquin’s herbarium, is 
evidently a specimen of the L. geniculata Bot. Mag., t- 1471.; and that the 
other, in the leaves, is similar to the LZ. Diospyrus Bot. Mag., t. 1470. 
Farther, Dr. Sims has noted, t. 1471., that it is not easy to say to which 
species L. zstivalis really belongs, and that if Linnzeus had meant the cha- 
racter of supra-axillary branches to describe that the buds are produced 
below the branches, and not in the axils.of them, it is as applicable to the 
allied L. Diospyrus and L. geniculata. (Bot. Mag., t.1470.) A shrub, 
about 6 ft. or 8 ft. high, a native of Virginia, in the swamps which inter- 
sect the pine barrens. Introduced in 1775, There was a plant in the 
Horticultural Society’s Garden, some years ago, which is since dead. 
