OF ORXAMEXTAL TREES. 75 



with its purple berries, it is a pretty, though 

 small tree. The coarse, spiny branches also 

 give it a picturesque appearance. 



It has the advantage of thriving in dry, 

 barren, stony places, where few other things 

 will grow. When once established, it must 

 always remain ; every attempt to destroy it 

 by digging it up, is retaliated by a regiment 

 of suckers. Let it alone, and it is not so 

 troublesome. The finest Bartram specimen 

 is fifteen feet high, and twelve inches in cir 

 cumference. 



It is easily propagated from cuttings of the 

 roots, or by seeds. 



ARAUCARIA, Ruiz and Pavon. Nat. Ord. 

 PinaceoB. Dioecia, Monadelphia, Linn. Male 

 flower. Pollen contained in ten to twenty 

 cases, pendant from the apex of the scale. 

 Female. Ovule solitary, joined to the carpel 

 or scale. Leaves imbricate. 



A. IMBRICATA, Ruiz and Pavon. Leaves 

 in eights, ovate lanceolate, with small perma 

 nent spiny points, stiff, and attached to the 

 tree for several years. Cones roundish ovate, 

 about eight inches long, and seven broad. 



