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SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 19 
cultivated in England, where it was introduced by the Duchess of Beaufort’ at the end of the 
seventeenth century.” 
Castanea pumila is perfectly hardy as far north, at least, as eastern Massachusetts, and in the 
Arnold Arboretum it flowers, and ripens its fruit in profusion. 
Castanea humilis, Virginiana, racemosa, fructu parvo in singulis 
capsults echinatis unico, Duhamel, Traité des Arbres, i. 134. 
Fagus foliis lanceolato-ovatis acute serratis, amentis Jiliformibus no- 
dosis, Clayton, Fl. Virgin. 118. — Royen, Fl. Leyd. Prodr. 79. 
Fagus humilis (seu Castanea, pumila) racemosa fructu parvo ; in 
capsulis echinatis, singulo, Romans, Nat. Hist. Florida, 19. 
1 Mary Capel (1630 ?-1714), the daughter of the distinguished 
Royalist leader, Arthur, Lord Capel of Haddam, married first 
Henry, Earl of Beauchamp, and afterward the third Marquis of 
Worcester, who, in 1682, became the first Duke of Beaufort, and 
was more famous for the magnificence and hospitality of his house 
of Badmington at Chippenham, in Surrey, which he built and 
surrounded with gardens, than for constancy in politics. At Bad- 
mington the Duchess maintained a botanic garden in which several 
plants were cultivated for the first time in Europe. Beaufortia, a 
genus of Australian shrubs of the Myrtle family, was dedicated to 
her memory by Robert Brown. 
2 Aiton, Hort. Kew. iii. 361 (Fagus). — Loudon, Arb. Brit. iti. 
2002, f. 1927, 1928. 
