1352 AKBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART II. 
App. i. Half-hardy Species of Euphorbia. 
E. dendréides L. is a native of Italy, Crete, and of the Island of : 
Hieres, near Toulon, where it forms a small branched shrub, about R 
4 ft. high. Z. Characias and E. dendrdéides, according to Dr. Philippi, 
grow in the streams of decayed lava on Etna. EZ. dendrdides, he adds, 
*€ is one of the finest shrubs in Sicily, and rises to a height of about 
6 ft., the stem forking soon above the ground, and each branch di- 
vided again, so that the form of the whole is perfectly semiglobular, 
In summer it is quite bare of foliage, when the numerous, smooth, 
verticillate branches give the plant a most singular appearance ; but 
with the rains of autumn the numerous linear leaves begin to sprout 
forth at the end of the boughs, and a corymb of yellow flowers tips 
the extremity of each in February.” (Comp. to the Bot. Mag., i. 51.) 
E. mellifera Ait., Bot. Mag., t. 1305., and our fig.1214., is a handsome 
free-growing shrub, a native of Madeira. A plant stood out in the 
Trinity College Botanic Garden, at Dublin, from 1821 to 1831, form- 
ing a bush about 42 ft. high, and 5 ft. in diameter, flowering all the 
winter. It was cut down by the severe frost of the spring of 1831, 
but sprang up again ; and it is now (Sept. 1836), Mr. Mackay informs 
us, nearly 5ft. in height, and 5ft. in diameter. Z. Characias, in the 
same garden, rarely exceeds 22 ft. in height. 
Other species, natives of the Levant, the Canaries, Portugal, and 
North and South America, may possibly be found as hardy as Z. mel- 
lifera. In the Vues Phytostatiques of Webb and Bertholet’s Histoire 
Naturelle des Iles Canaries, the E. canariénsis and £. piscatoria are 
represented in pl 2. as the prevailing species; the latter forming 
handsome trees, from10 ft. to 15 ft. high, with straight, erect stems 
Genus II. 
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STILLI'NG/A Garden. Tue Srinunera. Lin. Syst. Mone'cia 
Monadélphia. 
Identification. ** Stillingia was sent under that name to Linneus by the celebrated Dr. Alexander 
Garden.”., (Smith in Fees’s Cyclop.) Lin. Mant., 19.; Schreb. Lin. Gen., 658. ; Smith in Rees’s 
Cyclop.; Mart. Mill. Dict. 
Derivation. Named by Dr. Alexander Garden in honour of Mr. Benjamin Stiliingjleet, author of 
a work entitled Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Natural History, &c., partly translated from the 
writings of Linnzus. 
Description, §&c. The only hardy species is a deciduous shrub; a native of 
North America. 
2). S. uieu’srrina Willd. The Privet-/eaved Stillingia. 
Identification. Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 588. ; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 608. 
Spec. Char., §c. Shrubby. Leaf consisting of a petiole and a disk that 1s 
oval-lanceolate, pointed at both ends, and entire. Male flowers upon very 
short pedicels. (Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., ii. p. 213.) Nuttall has questioned 
whether the sexes are not dicecious, and has noted the female flowers as 
“ not seen,” but the male ones as being disposed in spikes, part lateral, part 
terminal, and as having a 3-cleft, rather flat, calyx, and 3 stamens that have 
kidney-shaped anthers; and the bracteas as 1-2-glanded and 1-flowered. 
(Nutt. Gen. Amer.) A deciduous shrub, growing about 4 ft. high; a native 
of North America, in shady woods, in Carolina and Georgia; flowering in 
June and July. It was introduced in 1812, and plants were in the collection 
of Messrs. Loddiges in 1830. From these gentlemen we received a plant 
in that year, but it is since dead; as is also a plant of this species in the 
Hackney arboretum; we are not aware that the species is now in exist- 
ence, ina living state, in England. 
Genus III. 
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BU’XUS Tourn. Tue Box Tres. Lin. Syst. Monce‘cia Tetrandria. 
Identification. Tourn. Inst., t. 345.; Lin, Gen., 486, ; Smith Eng. Flora, 4. p. 132. ; Theodor Nees 
ab Esenbeck Gen. Plant. Flore Germanic, fasc. 3. t. 16. 
Synonymes. Buis, Fr.; Buxbaum, Buchsbaum, Ger. 
