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AKIJOKETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



I'AKT 11 J. 



• 8. C. iwKviuA^TA Willd. The glabrous-/6'fli'f</ Celtis, or Nellie Tree. 



hlintification. Willd. Enum. Suppl., p. C8. ; Willi Baumz., p. 81. ; Rccm. ct Schult Syst Veg., 

 t). p. 30(5. 



Si/mmi/mc. .Sprenecl has suggested, in the Index to his Si/it. I'fg., that glabr&ta is the epithet fitter 

 for this species than la?vig-ita : glabruta signifies rendered, or become, bald ; Iwvigata, rendered 

 perfi'ctly even in surface. 



Spec. Char.fSfC. Leaves ovatc-lanceolatc, subcordate at the base, nearly entire ; glabrous on the 

 upper surface; roughish upon the veins on the under one. [Willd. Enum. Suppl.) In Kiein. et 

 Schult. Syst. I'i'g., a somewhat diflcrcnt specific character is quoted from Willd. fl^ittl. Jiaumz., 

 p. 81., the following: — Leaves ovate, acuminate, subcordate at the base, unequal there, nearly 

 entire, glabrous on both surfaces. Additionally to the specific character, it is stated as follows : — 

 It is a large tree. Its leaves have 1 — 2 teeth at the tip. It is a native of Louisiana. To this kind 

 seems to belong that Celtis named C. americana, or Micocoulier de la Louisiane, cultivated in the 

 Paris Garden, which Poiret, in Kncycl. Supfil., :}. p. t;ftS., No. 10., has noticed to have its leaves 

 membranous, rough on both surfaces, yet nearly glabrous ; with the base with one side shorter 

 than the other, and narrower, and some leaves almost falcate. 



a 9. C. pu'mila Ph. The dwarf Celtis, or Nellie Tree. 



Identification. Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 20a ; Ro-m, et Schult Syst. Veg., 6. p. 307. 



Spec. Char., SjC. A small straggling bush. Leaves ovate, acuminate, serrate with equal teeth ; 

 une<|ual at the base ; downy while young, afterwards nearly glabrous on both surfaces. Flowers 

 3 upon a peduncle. Fruit solitarv, ovate, black. Indigenous to the banks of rivers in Maryland 

 and Virginia, where it flowers in May. I'ursh has seen the kind alive. {I'ursli Fl. A. S.) The 

 plant wiis introduced by Lyon in 1812 ; and the name is in Loddiges's Catalogue, ed. 18J(i; but we 

 have not seen the plant there or elsewhere. 



App. i. Species of Celtis half-hardi/^ or not yet introduced. 



C. oricntatis Lin., K. Mai , 4. t. 40., and out Jig. 12:35., is 

 a native of the Himalayas, introduced in 1820. Iii foliage it 

 resembles C. occidentalis ; but we have only seen a very 

 small plant of it, against a wall, in the Horticultural So- 

 ciety's Garden. In p. 174., five Himalayan species are 

 enumerated as likely to prove hardy or half-hardy ; but 

 none of them are yet introduced. In the Hortus Britan- 

 nicus three species arc enumerated as indigenous to Ja- 

 maica, and as, in Britain, requiring the stove ; but, as C. 

 orient&lis is also designated as a stove tree in catalogues, 

 it is possible that the Jamaica species may be equally 

 hardy. In the Himalayas, Royle observes, the genus 

 Celtis occurs at considerable elevations, and as far north 

 as Cashmere. C. orientklis Wall., which we sui)pose to 

 be identical with C. orientalis i?'n., "and species allied to 

 it, occur in the hottest places; C- tetrindra liozh. extends 

 along the foot of the mountains as far as Cashmere." t'. 

 alpina Hoi/lr was found by Mr. Royle on Urrutka, nearly 

 at the greatest elevation, and if it were introduced would, 

 doubtless, be hardy in the climate of London. C. InglfsiY 

 Royle occurs in Kunawur ; and is, doubtless, equally hardy 

 with C. alpina As the seeds of Celtis go in little bulk, 

 and retain their vital energies for at least a year, there 

 will be little dilficulty, we think, in getting these species 

 introduced into liritain. 



CHAP. CII. 



OF THE IIARUY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER JUGLANDA CE.*;. 



The hardy ligneous plants of this order are included in the genera named 

 and characterised as under: — 



JiiNjLANS Ij. Flowers unisexual ; those of both sexes upon one plant. — 

 Male. Flowers in cylindrical, th'ooping, solitary catkins ; many in a catkin : 

 the catkins dcvclopeii from biuis borne by shoots produced previously to 

 the year in which the catkins appear. Calyx of 5 — G scales, tiiat are 

 attached to a bractca at a di.-itance from its base and tip. (Is the flower 

 stalked, and connate with the bractca?) Stamens 18 — 3G. — Female. Flowers 

 sohtary, or a few in a group, terminal upon a shoot developed in the same 

 year. Calyx ovate, including and adliering to the ovary, except in the 

 Moothed tip. Petals V, small, inserted into the free part of the calyx. 

 Ovary of one ctli, and one erect ovule. Stigmas 2 — 3, fleshy, scaly with 



