CHAP. LXIV. 



jjubia'ce^. CEPHALA'NTHUS. 



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CHAP. LXIV. 



OF THE HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER TJUBIA^CE^. 



This order includes a great number of genera; but there is only one of these 

 that contains any ligneous species truly hardy in British gardens. 



Genus I. 



CEPHALA'NTHUS L. The Button-wood. 

 Monogynia. 



Li?i. Si/st. Tetrandria 



Identification. Lin. Gen., No. 113. ; Gaertn. Fruct, 2. t. 86. ; Lara. 111., t. 59. ; Jiiss. Mem. Mus.,ft 

 p. 402. ; Rich. Diss., with a fig. ; Dec. Prod., i. p. 538. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 610. ; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 



Derivation. From kephale, a head, and anthos, a flower ; in allusion to the flowers being disposed in 

 globular heads. 



Gen. Char., ^c. Calyx with an obversely pyramidal tube, and an angular 

 5-toothed limb. Corolla with a slender tube, and a 4-cleft limb; lobes 

 erectish. Stamens 4, short, inserted in the upper part of the tube, hardly 

 exserted. Style much exserted. Stigma capitate. Fruit inversely pyra- 

 midal, crowned by the limb of the calyx, 2 — 4-? celled, and separating into 

 2 — 4 parts ; cells, or parts, I-seeded, indehiscent, and sometimes empty by 

 abortion. Seeds oblong, terminating in a Httle callous bladder. Albumen 

 somewhat cartilaginous. Emh-yo inverted in the albumen, with a superior 

 radicle. (Dori's Mill., iii. p. 610.) — Shrubs, with terete branches. Leaves 

 opposite, or 3 in a whorl. 



a 1. C. OCCIDENT a'lis L. The Western Button-wood. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 138. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 538. ; Don's Mill, 3. p. 610. ; Lod. Cat., ed. 1836. 

 Synonymcs. C. oppositifolius Moench Meth., p. 487. ; Swamp Globe Flower, Amer. 

 Engravings. Du Ham. Arb., 1. 1. 54. ; Schkuhr Handb., t. 21., and t. 5. b. fruit. ; Lois. Herb. Amat., 

 t. 272. ; Pluk. Aim., a36. t. 77. f. 4. ; and our Jigs. 828, 829. 



Spec, Char., Sfc. Leaves opposite, or 3 829 



in a whorl, ovate or oval, acumi- 

 nated. Peduncles much longer than 

 the heads, usually by threes at the 

 tops of the branches. Petioles red- 

 dish next the branches. Heads of 

 828 



flowers globular, size of a marble. Flowers whitish yellow. There are varieties 

 of this species having the branchlets and young leaves either glabrous or 

 downy. (Z)o«'s Mill., iii. p. 610.) A shrub, growing to the height of from 

 6 ft. to 8 ft. ; a native of North America, from Canada to Florida, in marshy 

 places. It was introduced in 1735, and flowers in July and August. It will 

 grow m common garden soil, but prefers peat kept moist ; and is propagated 

 chiefly by seeds, but will also grow by cuttings and layers. It is an inter- 



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