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ARBOUKTUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART in. 



App, i. Half-hardy Species ofYjiphdrhxa.. 



K. drnilroides L. is a native of Italy, Crete, and of the Island of 

 Hiores, near Toulon, where it forms a small branched shrub, about 

 4 ft. high. K. t'hariicias and E. dendrc'ildes, according to Dr. I'hilippi, 

 grow in the streams of decayed lava on Etna. E. dendriiides, he adds, 

 " is one of the finest shrubs in Sicily, and rises to a height of about 

 GfL, the stem forking soon above the ground, and each branch di- 

 vided again, so that the form of the whole is perfectly semiglobular. 

 In summer it is quite bare of foliage, when the numerous, smooth, 

 verticillate branches give the plant a most singular appearance; but 

 with the rains of autumn the numerous linear leaves begin to sprout 

 forth at the end of the boughs, and a corymb of yellow tiowcrs tips 

 the extremity of each in February." (Comp. to the But. Mag., i. .51 ) 



E. melUfrra Ait., Bot.Mag., t. 1.^5., and oury/g.l'iU., is a handsome 

 free-growing shrub, a native of Madeira. A plant stood out in the 

 Trinity ('oUege Botanic Garden, at Dublin, from 18'21 to 1831, form- 

 ing a bush about 4J ft. high, and 5 ft. in diameter, flowering all the 

 winter. It was cut down by the severe frost of the spring of 1831, 

 but sprang up again ; and it is now (Sept. 18.36), Mr. Mackay informs 

 us, nearly 5 ft in height, and fift. in diameter. E. 6'haiacias, in the 

 same garden, rarely exceeds 2J ft. in height. 



Other species, natives of the Levant, the Canaries, Portugal, and 

 North and South America, may possil)ly be found as hardy as E. mel- 

 llfera. In the Viies I'hi/tosta/icjt/es of Webb and Bcrtholet's Wstoirc 

 Katurelle ties lies Canaries, the E. canarit'nsis and E. piscatoria are 

 represented in pi '2. as the prevailing species ; the latter forming 

 handsome trees, fromlOft to 15 ft. high, with straight, erect stems 



Genus II. 



STILLING ^J Garden. 



LA- 



The Stillingia. 

 Monadtlphia. 



Lin. Syst. Monoe'cia 



Idenliilcnfion. " Stillingia was sent under that name to Linn^TUs by the celebrated Dr. Alexander 



Garden." (Smith in Hees's Cyclop.) Lin. Mant., 19. ; Schrcb. Lin. Gen., d'jS. ; Smith in Rccs's 



C)clop.; Mart. Mill. Diet. 

 Derivation. Named by Dr. Alexander Garden in honour of Mr. Beiijaviin Stillinnjieet, author of 



a work entitled Miscellaru'ous Tracts relating to Natural History, Sec, p.u-lly translated from the 



writings of Linnaus. 



Description, Sfc. 

 North America. 



The only hardy species is a deciduous shrub ; a native o; 



^ 1. S. LiGu'sTRiNA WiUd. The Vr'wct-lcaved Stillingia. 



htenUncntion. Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 588. ; Pursh FI. Amer. Sept, 2. p. 608. 



S})cc. Char., Sfc. Shrubby. Leaf consisting of a petiole and a disk that is 

 oval-lanceolate, pointed at both ends, and entire. Male flowers upon very 

 short pedicels. {Mich.r. Fl. Bar. Amer., ii. p. 213.) Nuttall has qucstionetl 

 whether the sexes are not dioecious, and has noted the female flowers as 

 " not seen," but the male ones as being disposed in spikes, part lateral, part 

 terminal, and as having a 3-cleft, rather flat, calyx, and 3 stamens that have 

 kiilney-shaped anthers; and the bracteas as i-2-glanded and l-flowered. 

 ( yuli. Gen. Amer.) A deciduous shrub, growing about -i ft. high ; a native 

 of North America, in shady woods, in Carolina and Georgia; flowering in 

 June and July. It was introduced in 1812, and plants were in the collection 

 of Messrs. Loddiges in 1830. From these gentlemen we received a jilant 

 in that year, but it is since dead ; as is also a plant of tiiis species in the 

 Hackney arboretum ; we are not aware that the species is now in exist- 

 ence, in a living state, in England. 



Genus III. 



2?U'XUS Tourn. The Box Tree. Lin. Sy.tf. MonoeVia Tetrandria. 



Idenlificatim. Tourn. Inst., t. .34.5. ; Lin. Gen., 486. ; Smith Eng. Flora, 4. p. 13'.'. ; Thcodor Ncc.« 



ab Esenbtck Gen. Plant Flora- Gcrm.inica;, fasc. 3. t lii. 

 iynomjmcs. Buis, Fr. ; Buxb.num, Buclisbaum, Gcr. 



