CHAP. CXVI, ZILIA C£.t, RV^Cl^. 2517 



wise; hut it will hardly endure our cold cJiinaie." There are (slants at 

 Messrs. Loddiges's. 



« 3. J. aphy'llcs. The leafless, or />mi7rrf Asparagus. 



Idemtificatiom. Lin. Sp. PI ,450.; Reicfa.. 2. 7a ; Uait. ICIL, So. 10.-, Ait. Hart. Kev., Xo. IL 

 Sguomtfwtes. Corndm alten Oms. Hat, 2. p. 179. ; A. petis^a, PiieUy Bodie Ai^angns, i>«r*'. 



Bngrariu^. Faifc. Tbeat., 451. C 4. 



Spec. Char., S^c. Stem r^ular, shrubbv. Leaves or spines awl-shaped, 

 diverging. {Willd.) A shrub, with many weak irregular shoots, which 

 have uo leaves, but, instead of them, are armed with short stiff spines, in 

 fascicles of 4 or 5 together, and spreading out from each other everv war. 

 The flowers are small, and greenish ; and the berries, which are larger than 

 those oi the common sort, are black when ripe. A native of the south of 

 Europe. Introduced in 1640. We observed it, in IS 19, common in the 

 hedges by the road sides, in various j arts of Tuscany. 



Varietif. 



m. A. a. 2 creticus fruticosus, <^c.y Tourn. Inst., i. 273. — Somewhat more 

 ligneous than the species. 



* 4. A. (a.) acctifo^lics L. The acute-leaved Asparagus. 



Jdemttfic/Uiim. Lin. Sp., 449. ; Reich., 2. 7a ; Mart. Mill. Xa & ; .\iL Hart. Ker., ed. £., £. p. 275. 

 Stfnomfmtt. J. Corriidn Scop. Cara.. Xo. 417., VUL D.auph.. ^ p 27S. ; A. R>L ariUis Bmmk. Pirn., 



490. ; A. sriv jsuii Gnu. Epit., 3S1, Matth., 549. ; A peCrs'us a-r. Eatac, 1110., Bmii Bist., 6SS. ; 



Carriula L Clus. Hist., i. 177., Bauh. Pun. Hiit., a 7;6. 



Spec. CMar.. ic Stem unanned, angular, shrobby Leares needlCL^haped, nther lig^ p— ««»~i_ 

 mucTooate. equal. ^ miu.) This species has crooked shmbby stemc, with vhite haifc. wfcidi liee 

 4 ft. or 5 ft. high, but bare no sptiies oo then ; the leaves oonte oat in dastets. Eke tboee of the 

 Uich : they are rerr short, and in shaip privies. Sctipnii thinks that this maj he tlK suae as 

 L:nnsiu'> A. aphyUus ; what aie abore called leares, being, in fact, onir spines, which areeoM. 

 sidered by botanists as aboitiTe shoois. It is a native of %iaiD and Porti^al, and was cukivaled 

 before 17^, by Miller. We bare not seen the pianL 



J. 5. A Ho'RRiDrs L. The horrid^/>rii«/ Asparatrus. 



Idemt^ieatkm. Lin. Syst., ^i ; Reich., 2. Ttt. Supp., 33i ; Mart. MUL, Ka 9. 

 Sjraoiqme. A. hi^panica Toan. ImH., XKH. 



Spec Cicr.. ifc. Stexa shrubby, fiTe.xomeTed. Prickles fbur-comeied, cn fLMul . '•■i^— ^ The 

 spines erf' this plant are said to be 2 in. or 3 in. in length, whence the nave, b is a twining ihiub, 

 and was introduced in 1900. We hare not seen the pfaint. 



Gexus II. 



nng 



/?U'SCUS L. The Butcher's Broom, Um. Sutt. Dioe cia Triandria. 



JdentiiKolioH. Lin. Gen., ■'>54. ; Joss., 4^. ; FT. Br., 1(773. ; Toum., t. IS. ; T--.m t. S15. • Gjertn. 



t. Id 

 &natjra»a. Fragoo, Fr. ; Mausedom, Ger. 

 Deriratitm. It is said to hare been ancienthr called Bruscus. flnooi hnur, box, and t''*m. haDr 



(Ottrc\ box holly ; orfromiiMsi, box. Some sappoee it to be derived 6an rwsatt, iesb.calaiiied; 



alluding to the colour of the &uiL The woid rmtcmt was, howefer, Trr<>?d to any pncklr p»«-» 



by the ancient Romans s^ ruscus sylTestzit, the holly, itc 



Description, ^c. Though, in a practical point of view, the species in British 

 gardens are treated as evergreen shrubs, yet, in a strict sense, they are 

 biennial plants, like the raspberry and the bramble. Popularlv, thev are 

 evergreen undershrubs, and one a climber. They have stiff sharp-pointed 

 leaves, on which the tlowers and fruit of the plant are produced, except in 

 R. racemosus. Natives of Britain a-nd other parts of Europe, and of Africa. 

 Soil and culture the same as those of 5iuiIa.K and .-Isparagas. Though the berrv 

 contains the rudiments of several seeds, they are generally all abortive but 

 one. Spha;*ria atrovirens and i^. .ffusci Fr. are occasionally found upon the 

 different species of this genus. 



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