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40 years planted, it is 35 ft. high; in ,Rosenthal’s Nursery, 20 years planted, and 90 ft. high; at 
Briick on the Leytha, 40 years planted, and 42 ft. high. * In Prussia, at Sans Souci, 30 years planted, 
and 20 ft. high; at the Pfauen Insel, 8 years planted, and 22 ft. high. In Bavaria, at Munich, 
in the Botanic Garden, 20 years planted, and 20 ft. high. In Hanover, at Géttingen, in the University 
Botanic Garden, 10 years planted, and 30 ft. high. In Cassel, at Wilhelmshche, 60 ft. high. In 
Sweden, at Lund, in the Botanic Garden, 2 years planted, and 4ft. high. In Italy, at Monza, 29 
years planted, and 60 ft. high. 
Commercial Statistics. Plants, in the London nurseries, are 1s. 6d. each; at 
Bollwyller, from 1 franc to 1 franc 50 cents; at New York, ?. 
CHAP. XXXI. 
OF THE HARDY AND HALF-HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE 
ORDER CORIA‘CER. 
Tuis order consists of only one genus, of which there is one species quite 
hardy, and one or two others, natives of New Zealand and Nepal, which are 
probably half-hardy. 
Genus I. 
CORIA‘RIA Niss. Tue Corrarta. Lin. Syst. Dice'cia Decandria. 
Identification. Niss. in Act. Par., 1711. t. 12.; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 739. ; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 818. 
Synonymes. Redoul, Fr. ; Gerberstrauch, Ger. ‘ 
Derivation. From corium, a hide; C. myrtifdlia being used both in tanning leather and in dyeing 
it black. 
Gen. Char., §c. Flowers either hermaphrodite, moncecious, or dicecious. 
Calyx 5-parted. Petals 5, sepaloid, smaller than the lobes of the calyx. 
Stamens 10, hypogynous, 5 between the lobes of the calyx and the angles of 
- the ovarium, 5 between the petals and the furrows of the ovarium. Anthers 
bursting by longitudinal slits. Style none. Stigmas 5, long, awl-shaped. 
Carpels 5, surrounding a fleshy axis; when ripe, close together, but se- 
parate, not opening, 1-seeded, surrounded with glandular lobes. Ovule and 
seed pendulous. A/bumen none. Embryo straight. — Branches square, op- 
posite. Leaves opposite, simple, 3-ribbed. (Lindley, Introd. to N.S., and 
Key.) 
% 1. C. MyrtiFo'Lia L. The Myrtle-leaved Coriaria. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 1467. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 739. ; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 818. 
Synonymes. Fustet des Corroyeurs, or Redoul 4 Feuilles de Myrte, Fr.; Myrtenblattriger Ger. 
berstrauch, Ger. 
Engravings. Lam. ill, t. 822.; Du. Ham., 1. t.'73.; Wats. Dend. Brit., t. 103.; and our fig. 160. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, 160 
three-nerved, on short foot-stalks, glabrous. 
Flowers in rather upright racemes. (Dec. 
Prod., i.p.739.) A deciduous shrub, growing 
to the height of from 4 ft. to 6 ft., in the south 
of Europe and north of Africa, in hedges and 
waste places. It was introduced into England 
in 1629, and has since been frequent in col- 
lections, flowering from May to August. In its 
native country, it is said to be used for tan- 
ning, and for dyeing black; but whether it 
is cultivated for this purpose, or merely 
gathered where found wild, we have not been able to ascertain. In 
Britain, it is cultivated as an ornamental undershrub, chiefly remarkable 
for its myrtle-like leayes, and the handsome frond-like form of its branches. 
