XX. CELASTRA^CE^E. XXI. ^fQUIFOLIA v CE^E. 



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at 1. N. CANADE'NSIS Dec. The Canadian Nemopanthes. 



Identification. Dec. Mem. Soc. Gen.. 1. p. 44. ; PI. Rar. Hort. Gen. t 3. ; 



Don's Mill., 2. p. 13. 

 Synonymes. /'lex canadensis Michx. Flor. Bar. Amer. 2. p. 299. ; N. 



fascicularis Rafin. ; /'lex delicatula Bart. Fl. Vir. p. 67. ; ? Prlnos Id- 



cidus Ait. Hort. Kew. 2. p. 478. ; Houx du Canade, Fr. 

 Engravings. Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. 2. t. 49., as /'lex canadensis ; and 

 oi;r j^;. 2i2, 



212. N. canadensis. 



Fpec. Char., Sec. Leaves ovate, quite entire, or serrated at 

 the apex, smooth Pedicels usually solitary, 1 -flowered, 

 very long. Flowers white. Berries large, beautiful 

 crimson, very ornamental. (Don's Mill.) A deciduous 

 shrub. Canada to Carolina, on mountains. Height 

 3 ft. to 5 ft. Introduced in 1802. Flowers small, white ; 

 April and May. Berry large, beautiful crimson ; ripe in 

 October. Very ornamental. 



Plants of this species in the Hort. Soc. Garden, and at 

 Messrs. Loddiges's, under the name of Prinos lucidus, 

 form neat fastigiate shrubs, rather of slow growth. A 

 few years ago there were some very handsome plants of 

 this species at White Knights. Suckers or layers in loamy soil ; or cuttings 

 of the young wood in sand under a glass. 



Other Species of Celastrdcece. Maytenus chilensis Dec. 

 (our fig. 213.), a handsome evergreen branchy shrub, 

 with twiggy branchlets. The flowers are in axillary clus- 

 ters, with the corolla of a yellowish green colour, not 

 showy. It is a native of Chile, and stood eight or ten 

 winters against a south wall in the Hort. Soc. Garden, 

 and was thought to be tolerably hardy, but was killed to 

 the ground in the winter of 1837-8, and did not spring up 

 again. It also stood several winters in the open garden, as 

 a standard, and promised to be a valuable addition to our 

 hardy evergreen shrubs, which it may possibly yet prove. 



213. Mayienus chilensis 



ORDER XXI. 



Identification. Lindley's Key, p. 63. 



Synonymes. Celastrines, tribe ^quifoliaceas, in part, Dec. Prod. 2. p. 11. ; /Jicineae, in part, Lindl. 

 ' Introd. to N. S. p. 178., Don's Mill. 2. p. 14. 



ORD. CHAR. Calyx and corolla with an imbricate aestivation. Sepals 4^-6. 

 Corolla hypogynous, with 4 6 lobes, and as many stamens inserted into it 

 alternately to its lobes. Ovary 2 6-celled ; a pendulous ovule in each 

 cell. Fruit fleshy, indehiscent, with 2 6 stones, each containing a pendu- 

 lous seed, which has large fleshy albumen. (Lindl.) Low trees or shrubs, 

 chiefly evergreen. Natives of Europe and North America. 



Leaves simple, alternate or opposite, exstipulate, evergreen or deciduous ; 

 coriaceous. Flowers small, axillary, solitary or fascicled. The genera 

 containing hardy species are three, and are thus contradistinguished : 



MYGI'ND/I Jacq. Sexes hermaphrodite. Stamens 4. Fruit 1-celled, 1-seeded. 

 Shrubs with square branchlets ; leaves opposite, subcoriaceous, and flowers 

 upon trifidly or trichotomously branched peduncles. 



/ V LEX L. Sexes hermaphrodite, dioecious, or polygamous. Stamens 4 5. 

 Fruit including 4 or 5 nuts. Evergreen shrubs with, mostly, coriaceous 

 leaves. Flowers many on a peduncle. 



PRI'NOS L. Sexes mostly dioecious or polygamous. Stamens 6. Fruit in- 

 cluding 6 nuts. Shrubs with leaves deciduous or persistent, and flowers 

 1 upon a peduncle. 



