4 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 
coast. 
CYRILLACE. 
In such situations as the last it attains a real arborescent habit and its largest size, usually 
growing with the Cliftonia and Yaupon, with Water Oaks and Gum-trees. 
Cyrilla raceniflora was first noticed by Dr. Alexander Garden,’ a resident of Charleston, who, 
in 1765, sent it to Linneus.? Two years later it was, according to Aiton,’ itroduced into England by 
a Mr. John Cree; it flowered near Paris* in the garden of J. M. Cels® in 1786. Cyrilla racemifiora, 
although valuable as an ornamental plant on account of its handsome lustrous foliage and graceful and 
abundant inflorescence, has probably seldom been cultivated except in botanic gardens.° 
of all sizes, from half an inch to a foot in diameter, spring from a 
common root and spread in all directions like the stalks of a tussock 
of sedge, interlocking and forming a dense impenetrable thicket 
thirty or thirty-five feet high. The leaves are often only an inch 
or an inch and a half long, oblanceolate, rigid, and more persistent 
than those on plants growing in drier soil. This variety, which is 
not rare in the coast region from Florida to Louisiana, was first 
noticed by Dr. A. W. Chapman near Apalachicola, Florida, and is 
mentioned in his Flora of the Southern States, 272. 
1 See i. 40. 
? Smith, Correspondence of Linneus, i. 319, 324. 
8 Hort. Kew. i. 277. 
* Lamarck, Dict. ii. 245. 
5 Jacques Martin Cels (1743-1806) established in his nurseries 
at Mont Rouge, near Paris, a large collection of rare plants, in- 
cluding many North American trees and shrubs obtained from the 
Michaux. The fame of this garden is perpetuated in Ventenat’s 
important work, Description des Plantes Nouvelles et peu connues, 
cultivees dans le jardin de J. M. Cels. 
for many of the plant portraits published in the Plantes Grasses of 
De Candolle, in the Stirpes Nove of L’ Héritier, and in Les Liliacées 
of Rédouté. 
of Agriculture, and of the Academy of Natural Sciences, and con- 
It supplied also the subjects 
Cels was an active member of the National Council 
tributed largely to the knowledge in France of exotic plants. A 
catalogue of his collections was published by his successor in 1817. 
® According to Nuttall (Sylva, 1. c.), Cyrilla racemiflora proved 
hardy in John Bartram’s garden at Kingsessing, near Philadelphia, 
where in 1840 he found a specimen twenty feet high with a trunk 
twenty-six inches in diameter. This plant disappeared many years 
ago. Cyrilla flowered in the Loddiges’ nursery at Hackney, near 
London, in 1824; and the figure in the Botanical Magazine was 
made from this plant. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Puate LI. 
CYRILLA RACEMIFLORA. 
1. A flowering branch, natural size. 
2. Diagram of a flower. 
3. A flower, enlarged. 
4. Vertical section of a flower, enlarged. 
4°, A petal, enlarged. 
4°, A stamen, front and rear view, enlarged. 
CON DH 
9. A seed, enlarged. 
. A fruit, enlarged. 
- A cluster of ovules, much magnified. 
. A fruiting branch, natural size. 
. Vertical section of a fruit, enlarged. 
10. An embryo, much magnified. 
11. Winter-buds, natural size. 
