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differs from this by its smooth or nearly smooth leaves ; its long, slender- 

 stalked male flowers ; its calyx margins not being hairy ; and by its solitary 

 fruits. I. verticillata is somewhat variable, and American botanists distinguish 

 the following varieties : 



Var. CYCLOPHYLLA, Robinson. Leaves small, roundish, rather clustered at 

 the end of the twig, finely downy on the veins beneath. 



Var. PADI FOLIA (Prinos padifolius, Willdenow}. Leaves downy all over the 

 lower surface. 



Var. TENUIFOLIA (Prinos tenuifolius, Torrey]. Leaves thinner and less 

 downy than in the type. Female flowers more often solitary. 







I. VOMITORIA, Aiton. CASSENA. 



(I. Cassine, Walter not Linnceus?) 



An evergreen shrub, sometimes a small tree, 15 to 20 ft. high ; young 

 shoots rigid, spreading, covered with a minute down. Leaves smooth, glossy 

 dark green, narrowly oval or inclined to ovate, tapered at the base, bluntish 

 at the apex, the margin shallowly and remotely toothed ; \ to \\ ins. long, 

 j to f in. wide ; stalk ^ to \ in. long, downy like the young wood. Flowers 

 produced in axillary clusters on the year-old wood, the males numerous and on 

 stalks \ in. long ; females solitary or in pairs. Fruit scarlet, round, \ in. 

 diameter. 



* Native of the south-eastern United States ; introduced in 1700. A neat 

 evergreen shrub something like a Phillyrea in appearance, but incapable of 

 withstanding our hardest winters. 



I. YUNNANENSIS, Franchet. 



An evergreen shrub, ultimately 10 to 12 ft. high, with bright green 

 branchlets covered with outstanding down which persists two years. Leaves 

 of a beautiful brownish red when quite young, becoming glossy green with 

 age, ovate, rounded at the base, acutely pointed, round-toothed, f to ig^ ins. 

 long, rather more than half as wide. Fruit about |- in. diameter, red. 



Native of W. China ; introduced by Wilson about 1901, and since cultivated 

 in the Coombe Wood nursery. It has not yet flowered under cultivation, but 

 is worth growing as a neat, cheerful-looking evergreen. It was first discovered 

 by Delavay, afterwards by Henry. It is allied to I. crenata, but the leaves are 

 more leathery, the branches more downy, and the fruit red. 



ILLICIUM. ANISE TREES. MAGNOLIACE^:. 



A small genus of evergreen shrubs or small trees allied to Magnolia, 

 with an agreeable aromatic odour resembling that of aniseed. Leaves 

 alternate, entire. Fruit starlike, the carpels being borne round a central 

 axis. Two species are grown out-of-doors in the British Isles, one from 

 the S.E. United States, the other from China and Japan. Both are 

 rather tender. They prefer a partially peaty soil, especially until well- 

 established, and can best be propagated by layers. 



I. FLORIDANUM, Ellis. POISON BAY. 

 (Bot. Mag., t. 439.) 



A shrub 6 to 8 ft. high, of compact, much-branched habit. Leaves 3 or 4 

 ins. longj lance -shaped to narrowly oval, tapered at both ends, entire, leathery, 



