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Cominerrifil St(tti.stks. Price of plants, in the London nurseries. Is. 6(1. 

 each, and seeds (is. a (jnurt; at liollwyller, 2 francs; and at New York, 

 2b cents. 



SI 7. L. {H.) ZJiospy'rls Ptrs. The Diospyriis-///r Laurel, or Bni/. 



filentification. I'ers. Syn., 1. p. 450. ; Hot. Mat;., t 1470. ; where Dr. Sims status that Tersoon's c\n- 

 thet, 7.>ios|)>'rus, is an abbreviation of Michaux's one oCrfiospyroldes. 



Synonifincs. I.. Kuosinus yjiospjrus Suit. Gen., I. p. '-'.">!). ; /,. rfiospyriiides Michx. Fl. Bor. Amcr., 

 1. p. '245. ; ? /.. mclissa-l'blia Halt. FL Car., I'A. Dr. Sims Hot. Man., t 1470.) states that he has 

 not much doubt that the L. inehssa'f.Mia Walter is identical with this species ; and he adds that 

 Mr. Fraser, who was the friend of Wnlter, and editor of his work, always considered it as such, 

 and has remarked that " the leaves are not at all like those of the balm ; but it was, probably, the 

 scent, not the form, that suRgested the appellation." 



Engravings. Hot. Mag., t. 1470. ; andouryig-. 117i!. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Habit low, siirculosc, twiggy- Leaves oblong-oval and 

 entire, the under side veiny and pubescent, deciduous. Flower buds and 

 |)edicels villous. Sexes dioecious. Fruit large. {XiUt. Gc)i.,\. \^.'^59.) A 

 running twiggy shrub, 2 ft. or 3 ft. high, in its 

 native swamps, in Virginia and Carolina; intro- 

 duced in 1810. Leaves opatjue, oblong-oval, at- 

 tenuated towards the base, entire, the under side 

 veiny and j)ubescent, deciduous. Scales of the 

 buds purple, villous. Younger branches villous. 

 Sexes dicL'cious. Flower buds and pedicels villous. 

 Flowers disposed in sessile uinbeled groups, 3 — 5 

 in a grouj). Perfect stamens 9. Gland-like bodies 

 large, orange yellow. Fruit larger than that of. 

 L. Boizuiii, oblong-ovate, scarlet, upon thick and 

 distinct pedicels Cotyledons large, thick, oily, 

 attached by near their base to the remainder of the 

 embryo. (Xiift. Gen., i. p. 259.) It is wiiat may be 

 deemed the male sex that is represented in Bot. 

 Mcii^., t. 1170., and our fiiz. 1172. ; and in the text of the Bot. Mag. is the 

 following interesting information by Dr. Sim,s, on the structure of its 

 flowers. Tliere were 9 peifect stamens, and an imperfect ovary; and 6 

 glands on short pedicels, resembling so many little yellow mushrooms, with 

 a warty pileus : the anthers had 2 cells each. {Bot. ^lag.) L.VsouiXo-Bcn- 

 zoin jNIichx. is supposed by Dr. Sims (Bot. Mag.,t. 1471.) to be either 

 identical vvith, or a slight variation from, this species. The only phint 

 wiiich we have seen bearing the name of Z«. iJiospyrus is at White Knights, 

 where it so closely resembles L. Benzoin, as to leave no doubt in our 

 mind tliat Dr. Sinis's conjecture was right. 



a 8. L. (B.) iESTivA^Lis L. The summer Laurel, or Wdlow-leavcd Bay. 



Idniliftcaliun. Lin. Sp., 529. ; Syst., 384. ; Mart. Mill., No. 24. ; Willd. Sp. PI., 2. p. 485. 

 Synonymcs. I,, enervia Mill. Diet., No. 8. ; L. Euosmus a-stivMis Ktttl. Gen., 1. p. 25i1. ; Pond bush, 



Amcr. ; Sommer Lorbecr, Gcr. 

 Engraving. Catesb. Car., 2. t 28. 



SjH'c. Char., Sfc. Leaves oblong-acuminate, entire, glabrous, vein}-, deci- 

 duous. Flowers in umbels. Sexes polygamous. ( A'////. GV?j., i. p. 259.) 

 Dr. Sims has noted, incidentally, in the Bot. Mog., t. 1470., that there 

 are two different specimens of the jL. a'stivalis in the 15anksian herbarium; 

 that one of them, the flowering specimen from Jacquin's herbarium, is 

 evidently a specimen of the L. geniculata Bot. ]\Iag.,t. 1471.; and that the 

 other, in the leaves, is similar to the Ij. 7Jiosj)>rus Bot. ^tag., t. 1470. 

 Farther, Dr. Sims has noted, t. 14-7 1., that it is not ea.sy to say to which 

 .species L. asstivalis really belongs, and that if Linn;ciis had meant the cha- 

 racter of supra-axillary branches to describe that the buds arc |)roduced 

 below the branches, and not in the axils of them, it is as applicable to the 

 allied L. 7>>iospvrus and //. geniculata. {Bot. J\Tng., t. 1470.) A shrub, 

 about (ift. or Hit. high, a native of Virginia, in the swamps which inter- 

 sect the pine barrens. Introduced in 1775. There was a ])lant in the 

 Horticultural Society's (iarden, some years ago, which is since dead. 



