96 NEMOPANTHUS NEVIUSIA 



unisexual, small, of no beauty; produced from the leaf-axils usually 

 singly, occasionally a few together on a thread-like stalk | to i in. long. 

 Fruit a globose berry, i to J in. wide, pale crimson, containing four or 

 five hard bony seeds (nutlets). 



Native of Eastern N. America; introduced in 1802. It is similar 

 in aspect and nearly related to the deciduous (or Prinos) group of hollies, 

 from which it differs botanically in having strap-shaped petals free from 

 the stamens (they are attached together in the hollies). Whilst some 

 plants have flowers of both sexes as well as perfect flowers, others have 

 those of one sex only. Although introduced so long ago, this shrub never 

 appears to have obtained much recognition in this country. Unless it 

 bears its fruits freely it is of no garden value, and our summer sun is 

 probably not hot enough to develop its best qualities in that respect. I 

 have never seen it bearing fruit anything like so freely in Britain as it 

 does in N. America. 



NES^EA SALICIFOLIA, Kunth. LYTHRACE^E. 

 (Heimia salicifolia, Link.} 



A Deciduous shrub, said to grow to a height of 5 or 6 ft., but usually 

 shorter than that in this country, where, in the open ground, its stems are 

 frequently cut back to the ground in winter, springing up 2 to 4 ft. 

 high the following summer. Stems erect, leafy, much-branched, quite 

 smooth. Leaves linear and willow-like, opposite on the lower portion of 

 the stem, alternate towards the top ; i to 2 ins. long, \ to J in. wide ; 

 quite smooth. Flowers yellow, J to \ in. across, very shortly stalked, 

 produced singly in the leaf-axils of the current year's growth from July 

 to September. 



Native of N. and S. America, reaching from Mexico to Buenos 

 Ayres, in many places a weed; introduced in 1821. It will live in the' 

 open ground at Kew, and flowers .there, but its stems do not become 

 more than half woody, and do not survive the winter. 



Var. GRANDIFLORA, Lindley (Bot. Reg., vol. 27, t. 60), is the Buenos Ayres 

 variety. The flowers are i to i^ ins. across, and the leaves often \ in. wide. 

 It is a much finer plant than the type and decidedly prettier in flower, but is 

 not so hardy. It is said to be common on the pasture-lands about .Buenos 

 Ayres. Introduced in 1839. Both can be propagated by cuttings in late summer. 



NEVIUSIA ALABAMENSIS, A. Gray. ROSACES. 

 (Bot. Mag., t. 6806.) 



A deciduous shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high, with erect stems and spreading 

 branches, making a rounded bush, wider than it is high; branchlets at 

 first covered with fine down. Leaves ovate-oblong, i to 3^ ins. long, 

 those of the barren shoots shallowly lobed, finely double-toothed ; downy 

 on the veins beneath ; stalk up to J in. long, downy. Flowers produced 

 in a cluster at the end of short leafy side-shoots in April and May. Each 

 flower is borne on a slender, downy stalk J to i in. long ; it has no petals, 



