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Derivation. From Bacchus, wine ; because of the vinous odour of Us root. Pliny says the root 

 smells of cinnamon : but as the ancients sometimes boiled down their wines, and mixed them with 

 spices, these wines may have had an odour similar to that of the root of the baccharis. 



Gen. Char., fyc. Heads many-flowered, dioecious. Corolla homogamous, tubular. 

 Receptacle naked, seldom subpaleaceous. Involucrum subhemispherical, or 

 oblong, in many series, imbricated. Corollas of the male flowers 5-cleft, 

 dilated at the throat ; anthers exserted, tailless ; style more or less abor- 

 tive. Corolla of the female flowers filiform, subtruncate ; style bifid, exserted ; 

 anthers wanting. Achenia generally furrowed, or ribbed. Pappus pilose, of 

 the male in one series, of the female in one or many series. (G. Don.) 



Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, deciduous ; oblong lanceolate, 

 notched, serrated, or entire. Flowers terminal. Shrubs, of short duration ; 

 natives of North America ; of common culture and propagation. 



& 1. B. HALIMIFO'LIA L. The Sea- Purslane-leaved Baccharis, or the 

 Groundsel Tree. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 1204. ; Willd. Sp. PI., 3. p. 1915. 

 Synonyme, Sene"cio arborescens Hort. Kew. 



Engravings. Schmidt Baum., t. 82. ; Du Ham. Arb.. t. 35. ; and our 

 Jig- 1018- 



Spec, Char., $c. Leaves obovate, crenately notched 

 on the terminal portion. (Willd.) A large rambling 

 shrub. Maryland to Florida, on the sea coast. Height 

 8ft. to 10 ft. Introduced in 1683. Flowers white, 

 with a tint of purple, and resembling those of the 

 groundsel, but larger ; September to November. 



Chiefly remarkable for the glaucous hue of its 

 leaves, in consequence of the whole plant being co- 

 vered with a whitish powder. Its general appearance 

 accords with that of the genus ^'triplex, and the 

 shrubs of both families are, accordingly, well calcu- 

 lated for being grouped together. baccharis Aali- 

 mifolia will grow in any common soil which is 

 tolerably dry, attaining the height of 6 or 8 feet in 

 3 or 4 years ; and forming a large, loose-headed, 

 robust-looking bush, of from 10ft. to 12ft. in height, 

 and 12 or 15 feet in diameter, in 10 years. Cut- 

 tings, in dry soil and an open situation. 



j 2. B. (H.) ANGUSTIFO V LIA Pursh. The narrow-leaved Baccharis, or 

 Ploughman's Spikenard. 



Identification. Pursh Sept., 2. p. 523. 



Engraving. Our Jig. 1019. from a specimen in the Lambertian herbarium. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves narrow, linear, entire. Panicle com- 

 pound, many-flowered. Involucre small. (Pursh.) A sub- 

 evergreen shrub, of less vigorous growth, and somewhat 

 more tender, than the preceding species. Carolina to 

 Florida, on the sea coast, and on the banks of the Mississippi. 

 Height 3ft. to 4> ft. Introduced in 1812. Flowers white; July 

 to September. 



Neither the flowers nor the leaves of this or the preceding 

 species can be said to be either beautiful or ornamental ; partly 

 because they, as well as the seeds, bear a strong general re- 

 semblance to the leaves, flowers, and seeds of the common 1019 - *: r <*o " 

 groundsel, a weed of tiresome occurrence in gardens, and with 

 which all our associations are the reverse of those of rarity or elegance 

 Add also that groundsel trees can hardly be considered as truly ligneous plant" 

 for which reason we consider them wanting in that dignity of character which 

 belongs to all plants truly woody. 



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