( 9' ) 



THE BOX. 



Buxus SEMPERVIRENS. 



Fruttificaiion. Barren flowers with two 

 petals and four chives. Fertile 

 flowers in the fame bud, with three 

 petals and three (hafts, fucceeded 

 by a roundifh capfule with three 

 bills and three cells, having two 

 feeds. 



Specific cliarafler. Leaves oval, thick, 

 glofly. BlofToms greenifh white. 



THE box is another evergreen tree or 

 fhrub, which is met with, though fpar- 

 ingly, in a wild ftate with us, but more 

 commonly as planted in our gardens. Its 

 rarenefs (probably owing to a foreign 

 origin) may be inferred by its having 

 given a name to thofe fpots where it is 

 principally found \ as Box-hill, in Sur- 

 3 rey ; 



