GARDEN BOTANY. 



D. Odora, SWEET DAPHNE. A house shrub, with evergreen smooth 

 oblong leaves, and a terminal eluster of sessile purple or whitish flowers, in 

 winter, very i'ra grant. 



ORDER EUPHORBIACEJE. SPURGE FAMILY. 

 Manual, p. 385. The following exotics of this order are to be noticed : 



1. Euphorbia, SPURGE. Man. p. 385. 'iiiree snowy shrubs of this genus 

 arc winter ornaments of most conservatories. 



E. j acquiniflora. Smooth, with slender recurved branches and broadly 

 lanceolate leaves ; peduncles shorter than the petioles, few-flowered ; what 

 appears like a 5-cleft corolla are the bright red lobes of the cup or involucre 

 containing stamens and a pistil. 



E. splendens, of the Mauritius, with thick and norridly prickly stems, 

 oblong-spatulate mucronate leaves, and slender peduncles bearing a cyme of 

 several deep-red apparently 2-petulous flowers ; but the seeming petals are 

 bracts around a cup which encloses stamens and pistil. 



E. pulcherrima, or POINSETTIA, of Mexico. A wide-branched shrub, 

 with ovate or lanceolate-oblong angled or sinuate-toothed leaves, those next 

 the flowers (which are in globular green involucres, bearing one great gland 

 at the top on one side) mostly entire and of the brightest vermilion-red. 



2. Ricinus communis, PALMA-CHRISTI, CASTOR-OIL PLANT. Cult. 

 as an annual for its magnificent foliage, also for the seeds, from which castor- 

 oil is expressed ; a stately plant, with large palmately 5 - 7-lobcd and glandu 

 lar serrate leaves, and greenish monoecious flowers in a terminal panicle ; the 

 staminate ones below and polyandrous ; the pistillate above, ovary bearing 3 

 plumose 2-parted stigmas, and becoming a prickly-pointed 3-lobed*pod. 



b. BUXUS Sempervirens, Box. Cult, as a shrub, usually dwarf, and 

 for borders ; leaves evergreen, oval or obovate, with small and yellowish mo- 

 noaeious flowers in their axils. 



ORDER UBTICACEJE. NETTLE FAMILY. 

 Manual, p. 394. A few species are to be added, mostly trees. 



Trees, without milky or colored juice : flowers not capitate. 



Flowers polygamous : fruit a berry-like drupe. Man. p. 394. CELTI8. 



Flowers often perfect : fruit winged (a samara). Man. p. 394. 1. ULMUS. 

 Trees, with milky or yellowish juice, monoecious or dioecious. 



B;th kinds of flowers in spikes or catkins, usually monoecious, 



the pistillate catkin becoming berry-like in fruit. . . 2. MORUS. 

 Staminate flowers in spikes : pistillate in close round heads which 



become fleshy : dioecious 8. BROUSSONBT1A 



Staminate flowers in racemes : pistillate in a large round head, 



yellow and fle.shy in fruit : dioecious 4. MACLURA 



Both kinds lining the inside; of a closed fleshy receptacle (like a 



rose-hip), which becomes pulpy in fruit : stipules convolute, 



caducous 5. FICUS. 



Herbs, without milky juice, 



Erect, annual : leaves palmately compound. Man. p. 400. CANNABI8 



Twining : leaves palmately lobed. . . Man. p. 400. HUMULUS. 



