HALESIA HALIMODENDRON 



603 



Corolla white, bell-shaped, i to | in. long and wide, shallowly four-lobed. Fruit 

 somewhat pear-shaped, but" with four prominent wings running lengthwise and 

 an awl-shaped termination ; altogether about i^ ins. long. 



Native of the south-eastern United States ; introduced by Mr J. E. Ellis 

 in 1756. It is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful flowering trees introduced 

 to this country from N. America ; yet it is by no means abundantly planted. 



Yar. GLABRESCENS, Perkins (H. parviflora, Hort., not Michaux), differs from 

 the type in the oblong oval leaves proportionately narrower (three or four times 

 as long as wide), soon quite smooth beneath. Flowers smaller, fruits more 

 narrowly four- winged ; the whole plant less downy. 



Var. MEEHANI, Perkins, was raised from seed in Median's nursery, 

 Germantown, Philadelphia. It differs from ordinary H. Carolina in its 

 smaller, shorter-stalked flowers ; the corolla is more cup-shaped ; leaves thicker 

 and more coarsely wrinkled. 



Yar. STEXOCARPA, Koch. A fine form or hybrid with deeply lobed corolla. 

 Perhaps a hybrid between this species and H. diptera. 





HALESIA CAROLINA. 



H. DIPTERA, Ellis. 



A deciduous shrub, 8 to 15 ft. high (occasionally a small tree twice as high 

 in a wild state) ; young branches stellately downy at first. Leaves oval or 

 obovate, 3 to 5^ ins. long, \\ to 3 ins. wide; minutely and rather distantly 

 toothed, abruptly pointed, we~dge-shaped or rounded at the base ; downy on 

 both sides on first opening, but soon almost smooth except on the midrib and 

 veins ; stalk \ to f in. long. Flowers pendulous, produced in May in clusters 

 or short racemes from the joints of the year-old wood ; stalks \ to f in. long, 

 slender, downy. Corolla bell-shaped, f in. long, deeply four-lobed, white ; 

 calyx very downy ; stamens hairy. Fruit oblong, \\ to 2 ins. long, f in. wide, 

 with two longitudinal wings \ to in. wide, ending in a short spike. 



Native of the south-eastern United States ; introduced in 1758. This is 

 far from being as good a garden shrub as H. Carolina ; it is less hardy and 

 is shy-flowering. It grows well, and is over 12 ft. high at Kew, but never 

 flowers as it does in France, especially south of Paris. Easily distinguished 

 from H. Carolina by the two-winged fruit, and larger broader leaves. 



HALIMODENDRON ARGENTEUM, De Candolle. SALT TREE. 



LEGUMINOS^E. 



A deciduous shrub, naturally 4 to 6 ft. high, with very spiny, spreading, 

 somewhat angular branches, greyish, and covered with a fine down when 

 young. Leaves pinnate, composed usually of two pairs of leaflets, the 

 common stalk ending in a stiff spine, which remains after the fall of the 



