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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



ORDER XXXVI. ARALIA y CE^. 



ORD. CHAR. Calyx entire or toothed. Petals 5 or 10 ; aestivation vahate. 

 Stamens same, or double the number of petals. Anthers peltate. Ovarium 

 of 2 or more cells; cells 1-seeded. Styles numerous, usually distinct. Berry 

 crowned by the limb of the calyx. Albumen fleshy. Differs from the 

 Umbellaceae in inflorescence, numerous styles, and baccate, generally many- 

 celled fruit. 



Leaves simple or compound, alternate, stipulate, deciduous or evergreen ; 

 serrated or entire. Flowers small, greenish. 



The genera belonging to this order, which contain ligneous plants, are 

 Aralia and jffedera, the former rather suffruticose than permanently woody : 

 their characteristics are as under : 



ARABIA L. Petals 5. Stamens 5. Styles 5, expanded. Berry 5-celled. 

 //E'DERA Swartz. Petals 5 10. Stamens 5 10. Styles 5 10, conniving. 

 Berry 5 10-celled. 



GENUS I. 



ARA V LIA L. THE ARALIA, or ANGELICA TREE. Lin. Syst. Pentandria 



Pentagynia. 



Identification. D. Don Prod. Fl. Nep., p. 185., in a note ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 257. ; Don'g Mill., 3. 

 p. 388. 



Synonymes. Aralia sp. Lin. ; Araliae veree Blum. 



Derivation. According to some, from ara, annoyance, the spines being very troublesome in its 

 native country to travellers ; but, according to others, a name of unknown meaning, under which 

 one species was sent to Fagon, at Paris, from Quebec, in 1764, by one Sarrazin, a French phy- 

 sician. 



Gen. Char. Calyx margin very short, entire or toothed. Petals 5, free, 

 and expanded at the apex. Stamens 5. Styles 5, expanded, spreading divari- 

 cately. Berry 5-celled, usually torose. Pyrence chartaceous. (Don's Mill.) 

 Leaves compound, imparipinnate, alternate, stipulate, deciduous ; large, 

 rough. Flowers white, or greenish j in umbels, usually disposed in panicles. 

 Suffrutescent shrubs, with prickly branches and leaves, and with large 

 pith. Natives of North America and Japan. 



st 1. A. SPINO V SA L. The spiny Aralia, or Angelica Tree. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., p. 



392.; Don's Mill., 3. p. 389.; 



Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 

 Synonymes. Aralie, Fr. and 



Ger. ; Angelica spinosa, 



Ittil. ; Spikenard, N. Amer. 

 Engravings. Schmidt Arb., 



t. 102. and t 103. : Wats. 



Dend. Brit., t. 116.; and 



our^. 907. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Stem 

 arboreous and prick- 

 ly. Leaves doubly 

 and trebly pinnate. 

 Leaflets ovate, acu- 

 minated, and deeply 

 serrated. Panicle 

 much branched, beset 

 with velvety stellate 

 down. Umbels nu 907. A. spines* 



