634 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM JSR1TANN1CUM. 



Sunoni/mes. P. zlicifblia Willd. Enum. 1. p. 13.; P. Iatif61ia ,8 spinusa Willd. Sp. \. p. 43. ; P. 



latifolia longifdlia Link Jahrb. 1. p. 54. ; Phill^rea i. Clus. Hist. p. 51. 

 Engravings. Pluk. Phyt., t. 310. f. 4. ; and our fig. 1234., from a specimen in the British Museum. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves ovate-oblong, rounded at the base, acute, sharply 

 and cuspidately serrated, glabrous, flat, veiny. {Don's Mill.) An evergreen 

 shrub. South of Europe. Height 10 ft. to 20 ft. Introduced in 1597. 

 Flowers greenish white ; May and June. 



GENUS III. 



CHIONA'NTHUS L. THE SNOW-FLOWER, or FRINGE TREE. Lin. Syst. 

 Diandria Monogynia. 



Identification. Lin. Gen., No. 21. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 50. 

 Synonymes. Chionanthe, Fr. ; Schneeblume, Ger. 



Derivation. From c/iion, snow, and anthos, a flower ; in reference to the snow-white flowers of the 

 species. 



Gen. Char.y tyc. Calyx small, 4-parted, or 4-toothed. Corolla with a short 

 tube and a 4-parted limb j segments of the limb long and linear. Style hardly 

 any. Stigma 2-lobed. Anthers almost sessile. Drupe baccate, containing 

 a striated nut. Seeds albuminous. (Don's MUL} 



Leaves simple, exstipulate, deciduous ; opposite, entire. Flowers in ra- 

 cemes, simple or compound, terminal or axillary, snow-white. Trees or low 

 shrubs, natives of North America. 



This genus differs from CTlea, principally in the figure of the segments of 

 the corolla, and in its leaves being deciduous. The only hardy species is a shrub 

 or low tree, a native of North America. 



afe 1. C. VIRGI'NICA L. The Virginian Snow-Flower, or Fringe Tree. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., p. 11. ; Pursh Sept., 1. p. 7. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 50. 

 Tree, Amer. ; Arbre de N 



Si/nonymes. Snowdrop Tree, Amer. ; Arbre de Neige, Fr. : Schneeblume, Ger. 

 Engravings. Bot. Cab., t. 1204. ; the portrait of a plant in the arboretum of Mess 

 scale of 1 in. to 4 ft. ; in Arb. Brit., 1st edit., p. 1206. ; and OUT fig. 1235. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Racemes terminal. Pe- 

 duncles 3-flowered. Flowers pedicellate. 

 Leaves lanceolate, glabrous, resembling 

 those of a deciduous magnolia. Drupe 

 purplish. (Don's Mill.} A large deciduous 

 shrub or low tree. Pennsylvania and 

 Carolina, in boggy woods. Height 10 ft. 

 to 30 ft. Introduced in 1796, Flowers 

 white ; May to July. 



Varieties. 



? C. v. 2 latifolia Catesb. Car. t. 69., 



Kern. Abbild. t. 607. C.v. montana 



Pursh Sept. 1. p. 8. Has the 



leaves oval-lanceolate, coriaceous, 



glabrous ; panicles dense; drupes 



oval. Carolina. Introduced in 1736. 

 & C. v. 3 angustifolia Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. vol. i. p. 23. C. trifida 



Moench. Has the leaves lanceolate and glabrous. Horticultural 



Society's Garden. 

 & * C. v. 4 maritima Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept. i. p. 8. C. maritima Lodd. 



Cat. ed. 1836. A native of North America, in boggy woods by the 



sea side ; having the leaves obovate-lanceolate, membranous, and 



pubescent ; the panicles very loose ; and the drupes elliptic. 



