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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



these-be removed as they are produced, it will form a very handsome low tree. 

 Seeds, suckers, layers, or cuttings, in any common soil, kept moist. The 

 largest plants of this species, in the neighbourhood of London, are at Syon. 



& t 2. S. PINNA'TA L. The pinnated-leaved Staphylea, or Bladder-nut Tree. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 386. : Dec. Prod., 2. p. 3. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 3. 



Synonymes. Staphylodendron pinnStum Ray ; Staphilier a Feuilles ailees, Fr. ; gememe Pimper- 



nuss, Ger. ; Lacrime di Giobbe, or Pistacchio falso, Ital ; Job's Tears. 

 Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 1560. ; Hayne Abbild., t. 36. ; and our fig. 199. 



Spec. Char., %c. Leaves pinnate, of 57 oblong, perfectly glabrous, serrate 

 leaflets ; the flowers in racemes ; the capsules membranous and bladdery. 

 (Dec. Prod.) Shrub or low tree. South of Europe, and ? England in 

 hedges. Height 6ft. to 12ft. Flowers whitish; May and June. Nuts 

 globose white, in a bladdery capsule ; ripe in October. Decaying leaves 

 yellowish green. Naked young wood greenish, with green buds. 

 A smooth branching shrub, throwing up 



many side suckers, in gardens often from 



6ft. to 12ft. high, and exhibiting a much 



more luxuriant growth than the preceding 



species. The nuts, in some parts of Europe, 



are strung for beads by the Roman Catholics. 



The kernels taste like those of the pistacia, 



and are eaten in Germany by children. The 



flowers contain a great deal of honey, and 



are very attractive to bees. In the London 



nurseries, the plant is generally cultivated by 



side suckers, by cuttings put in during the 



month of September, or by seeds, which 



are ripened in abundance. The seeds ought 



to be sown as soon as they are ripe; be- 

 cause, as they contain an oil, they very soon 



become rancid. They will come up the following June, with two large, lance- 

 shaped, seminal leaves ; though sometimes they do not come up for two years. 



199. Staphylfea pinnkta. 



ORDER XX. CELASTRA'CE^E. 



>RD. CHAR. Sepals 4 6 : aestivation imbricate. Petals 4 6. Stamens 46, 

 alternate with the petals, opposite the sepals, indistinctly perigynous. 

 Ovary superior, free, girded with a fleshy disk, with 2 4 cells. Ovules erect, 

 rarely pendulous. Fruit capsular, baccate, drupaceous, or samarideous. 

 Seeds, in most, attended with an aril. (Lindl.) 



Leaves simple, alternate or opposite, generally stipulate, deciduous, or 

 evergreen. Flowers whitish or greenish, in axillary cymes. Shrubs or 

 low trees, generally deciduous ; natives of both hemispheres. 



The species are chiefly remarkable for the form and colours of their fruits ; 

 their flowers being neither large nor showy, nor their properties valuable in 

 medicine, or general economy. All the species are readily increased by layers, 

 by cuttings struck in sand, or by seeds in any common soil. The genera 

 containing hardy species are .Zftionymus, Celastrus> and Nemopanthes, which 

 are thus contradistinguished : 

 .EUO'NYMUS Tourn. Sexes mostly hermaphrodite. Fruit a dehiscent capsule, 



of 3 5 cells. Seed with an aril. Leaves mostly opposite. 

 CELA'STRUS L. Sexes mostly hermaphrodite. Fruit a dehiscent capsule 



of 2 3-cells. Seed with an aril. Leaves alternate. 

 NEMOPA'NTHES Rafin. Sexes polygamous or dioecious. Fruit an indehiscent 



berry 



