702 



ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



dry rather than moist, and a warm situation. It is 

 propagated by division of the root, by suckers, or by 

 seeds, which are sometimes received from North America. 



Jl 2. A. (s.) TOMENTO^SA Sims. The tomentose Birthwort. 



Identification. Sims in Bot. Mag., t. 1309. ; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 

 Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 1369. ; Bot. Cab., t. 641. ; and our fig. 1374. 



Spec. Char., $c. Stem twining. Leaves cordate, downy 

 beneath. Peduncle solitary, without a bractea. Co- 

 rolla with its tube twisted back, and much more deeply 

 divided than in A. sipho, expanding flat, and yellow, 

 with the mouth of the tube of a deep purple. A 

 twining deciduous shrub. North America. Height 

 10ft. to 20ft. Introd. 1799. Flowers as in A. sipho. 



1374. A. tomentoss.. 



ORDER LXIV. 



ORD. CHAR. Flowers unisexual. Perianth lobed or wanting, furnished inside 

 with hypogynous glandular or scale-formed appendages. Stamens definite 

 or indefinite, free or monadelphous. Ovarium superior, 2 3-celled. Stylet 

 equal in number to the cells. Stigmas man}', distinct or combined. Capsule 

 of 2 3, or more, 2-valved cells or cocci. Seeds solitary or in pairs, 

 arillate, suspended. Albumen fleshy. (G. Don.} 



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

 or evergreen ; quite entire. Flowers solitary, aggregate, terminal, lateral, 

 or axillary. Shrubs or small trees, natives of Europe and North Ame- 

 rica, which are thus contradistinguished : 



STILLING/,* Garden. Flowers monoecious, in spikes. Style 1. Stigmas 3. 



Z?u'xus Tourn. Flowers monoecious, in heaps. Styles 3. Stigmas 3. 



GENUS I. 



STILLI'NG/^ Garden. THE STILLINGIA. Lin. Syst. Monce'cia 

 Monadelphia. 



Identification. " Stillingia was sent under that name to Linna?us, by the celebrated Dr. Alexander 

 Garden." (Smith in Rees's Cyclop.) Lin. Mant., 19. ; Schreb. Lin. Gen., 658. 



Derivation. Named by Dr. Alexander Garden in honour of Mr. Benjamin Stillingfieel, author of 

 a work entitled Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Natural History, &c., partly translated from the 

 writings of Linnaeus. 



Gen. Char. Flowers unisexual ; males in a spike, females at the base of the 

 same spike ; ? dioecious. Male. Flowers seven together. Calyx like a 

 corolla, of one piece, funnel-shaped, its margin jagged. Stamens 2 3, pro- 

 minent; the filaments slightly connected at the base. Female. Involucre 

 1-flowered. Calyx superior, shaped as in the male. Style thread-shaped. 

 Stigmas 3. Fruit a regma, surrounded at the base by the involucre a little 

 enlarged, somewhat turbinate, 3-lobed. 



Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, deciduous ; entire. Flowers in spikes, 

 terminal or lateral. Shrubs, deciduous, milky j natives of North America. 



j* 1. S. ZIGU'STRINA Willd. The Privet-leaved Stillingia. 



Identification. Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 588. ; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 608. 



Our fig. 1375. from a specimen in Sir W. J. Hooker's herbarium. 



Engraving, 



Spec. Char. 



fyc. Shrubby. Leaf consisting of a petiole, and a disk that is 



