1206 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART Ill* 
tube and a 4-parted limb; segments of the limb long and linear. Style 
hardly any. Stigma 2-lobed. Anthers almost sessile. Drupe_baccate, 
containing a striated nut. Seeds albuminous. (Don’s Mill., iv. p. 50.) 
—Deciduous trees or shrubs, having the branchlets compressed at top. 
Leaves opposite, simple, entire. Racemes simple or compound, terminal 
or axillary. Flowers snow-white. This genus differs from O%lea, princi- 
pally in the figure of the segments of the corolla, and ih its leaves being 
deciduous. The only hardy species is a native of North America. 
¥ 1. C. virer’ntca ZL. The Virginian Snow-Flower, or Fringe Tree. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., p. 11.; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 50.; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 
Synonymes. Snowdrop Tree, Amer.; Arbre de neige, Fr. ; Schneeblume Ger. 
Engravings. odd. Bot. Cab., t.1204.; Du Ham. Arb., 1. p. 165. t. 63. ; Catesb. Car., 1. t. 68. ; our fig. 
1029., to a scale of 2in. to 1 ft.; and jig. 1030., which is a portrait of a plant in the arboretum of 
Messrs. Loddiges, to a scale of 1 in. to 4 ft. 
Spec. Char., c. Racemes terminal. Peduncles 3-flowered. Flowers pedicel- 
late. Leaves lanceolate, glabrous, resembling those of a deciduous magnolia. 
Drupe purplish. (Don’s Mill., iv. ny 1030 
p. 50.) Atree from 10 ft. to 30 ft. Like 
high, a native of North America. It 
was introduced in 1796, and flowers 
from May to July. It requires to be 

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grown in moist soil, either sandy 
peat or sandy loam, and in a shel- 
tered situation. It may be propa- 
gated by layers ; but as seeds are 
easily imported from America, and 
as the plant does not root very ; 
readily, that mode is not often adopted. It may also be propagated by 
grafting on the common ash; and, if this were done standard high, it 
would, from its large leaves, and the beauty and singular appearance of its 
snow-white flowers, which look like fringe, form a splendid tree. The 
leaves are often 1 ft. long, and nearly half as broad ; but neither the 
leaves nor the flowers will attain any degree of perfection, unless the soil 
be kept moist. The largest plant that we know of, in the neighbourhood of 
London, is at Syon, where, in 1835, it was upwards of 10 ft. high, with a 
trunk 7 in. in diameter. The price of plants, in London, is 1s. 6d. each, 
and of seeds 1s. a packet; at New York, plants are 50 cents each. 
Varieties. 
2 ¥ C.v. 2 latifoha Catesb. Car., t. 69., Kern., t. 607., Ait. Kew., 1. 
p. 23.; C. v. montana Pursh Fl. Amer, Sept., 1. p. 8.; has the 
leaves oval-lanceolate, coriaceous, glabrous ; panicles dense ; drupes 
oval. A native of Carolina. Introducéd‘in 1736. There is a plant 
of this variety in the Marylebone Nursery. 
% ¥ C. v. 3 angustifolia Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., vol. 1. p. 23.; C. trifida 

