CHAP. CI. 



ULMA CEJE. 



1371 



Spec. Char., S^c. In habit and leaves, somewhat resembling the common privet 

 (Z<igiistrum vulgare i/.). Leaves with very short petioles, and disks that are 

 lanceolate-oblong, entire, somewhat membranous. Fruit rather shortly 

 ovate. (Micluv. Fl. Bor. Aiiur.) A native of North America, in thickets 

 about rivers, in the countries of the Illinois, Tennessee, &c. ; flowering in 

 July and August. {Smith.) Introduced into England in 1812, by Lyon; 

 and there are plants in the arboretum of Messrs. Loddigcs, where it grows 

 freely in connnon garden soil, forming a shrub, ai)parently a fit associate 

 for Z/igustrum, Fontanesi«, and Prinos. , 



at 2. B. (?i.) ACUMiNA^TA Willd. The acuminate-/<^rti'£"(^ Borya. 



Identifitiithn. Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p 711.; Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., vol. 5. 

 St/noni/mes. Adfilia acuminflta Mic/ix. Fl. Bur. A»icr.,2. p. SS;'). t.48.; 



Bigelbvja acuminJita Smith in Itees's Cyclop. Addenda, Lodd. Cat., 



ed. 183fi. 

 The Sexes. Uncertain which is in England. 

 Engravings. Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., 2. t. 28. ; and our^g^. 1229. 



Spec. Char., ^-c. Leaves membranous, lanceolate in 

 almost a rhombic manner ; but most tapered to the 

 outward end ; Hin, long, serrulate. — Male flowers 

 several together in small sessile tufts, encompassed 

 with several ovate bracteas. — Female flowers 

 stalked, very small. Fruit pendulous, elliptic-ob- 

 long, nearly 1 in. long before it is ripe, tapered to 

 the tip in a beak-like manner. — It appears that the 

 taper lateral branches form something like thorns. 

 {Michx. and Smith.) Indigenous to the banks of 

 rivers in Carolina and Georgia. Introduced into 

 England in 1812 ; but the plants in the arboretum 

 of Messrs. Loddiges have not yet flowered. The 

 only difference which we can observe between 

 B. acuminata and B. /igustrina is, that the former 

 has the leaves of a paler green. 



1229 



as 3. B, (l.) porulo'sa JVil/d, The porc-tike-dotted-leaved Borya. 



Identification. Willd. Sp. P]., 4. p. 711. ; Ait. Hort. Kcw., ed. 2., vol. 5. 



Synont/mes. Adulia porulosa ^/«-A.r. Fl. Bur. Aiiicr.,'i. f.'i'ii. ; Bigelbvio porul6sa S»2M in Kct's's 



Cyclop., Addenda ; ? B. ov^ta Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 

 The Sexes. Uncertain which is in England. 



pec Char , <^c Leaves coriaceous, sessile, lanceolately ovate, but with a 

 blunt point, entire ; the lateral edges revolute ; under surface rather rusty, 

 and punctured with little holes. {Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer.) It is indigenous 

 to the coasts of Georgia and Florida. Introduced into England in 1806. 

 The plants in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges difl^er from B. /igustrina, 

 chiefly in the leaves being shorter. 



* -i. B. distichophy'lla Nutt. The two-rowed-leaved Borya. 



IdoUification. Nutt. Gen. N. Anier. PI., 2. p. 232. 



Spec. Char., SfC. A shrub, 12 fl. to 16 ft. high. Leaves in two rows, subsessile, lanceolate, acute, entire 



rough at the edge, membranous. Branchlets very slender. Scales of the bud pungently acute, 



f?J " confluent in the leaves." Indigenous to the banks of French Broad River, East Tennessee. 



{Xiitlall, who had seen it alive.) Mr. George Don thinks that this plant has been introduced ; but 



we have never seen it. 



CHAP. CI. 



OF THE HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER l/LMA^CEiK. 



They are included in three genera, which have the following names anti 

 characters : — 

 f/'LMUs L. Flowers, in most species, protruded earlier than the shoots 



and leaves of the year; disposed in groups, each group lateral, and proceeding 



