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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



7 ft. to 12 ft. Introduced in 1795. Flowers 



bro 



wood dark brown. 



The soil in which it is generally grown 

 is a mixture of loam and peat, in which 

 the latter prevails ; but, in the Mile End 

 Nursery, it shoots vigorously, and flowers 

 freely, in deep sandy loam. The situation 

 should be sheltered ; and shaded rather 

 than otherwise. The usual mode of pro- 

 pagation is by layers ; and the stools are 

 sometimes protected, during winter, by mats. 



106. M. ovatum. 



M. ovatUin. 



Genus II. 



STUA'RT/yi Cav. The Stuartia. Lin. St/st. Monadelphia Pentandria. 



Itlenfification. Cav. Diss., 5. p. 393. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 5'28. ; Don's Mill., 1. p. 573. 

 Derination. Named in honour of John Sluart, Marquess of Bute, the patron of Sir John Hil!,and 

 a distinguished promoter of botanical science. 



Ge7i. Char, Calyx permanent, 5-cleft, rarely 5-parted, furnished with two brac- 

 teas at the base. Petals 5. Ovary roundish. Style 1, filiform, crowned 

 by a capitate 5-iobed stigma. Capsule woody, 5-celledl, 5-valved ; cells 1 2- 

 seeded. Seeds wingless, ovate, even. (Don's jllill.) 



Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, deciduous ; ovate, acute. Floivers 

 axillary, solitary, large. A deciduous shrub, or low tree, native of North 

 America. 



^ 1. Stua'rt/^ virgi'nica Cav. The Virginian Stuartia. 



Identification. Dec. Prod , 1. p. 528. ; Don's Mill., 1 p. .573. 



Si/nony7nes. Stewart/a Malachodendron Lin. Sp., 982.; Stu&rtm marilandlca Bot. Rep. ; Stewartia 



a un Style, Fr. ; eingriffliche (one-styled) Sluartie, Ger. 

 Engravings. Lam. 111., t. -503. ; Bot. Rep., t. 397. ; and our fig. 108. of a plant in flower, and fig. 



109. of a shoot from a stool. 



108. Stu&rtia virginica. 



109. Stuartia virginica. 



Spec. Char.., Sfc. Flowers large, white, with purple filaments and blue anthers, 

 usually in pairs. Leaves ovate, acute. Petals entire. {Doris Mill.) A 

 deciduous shrub Virginia to Carolina, in swamps. Height 6 ft. to 8 ft. 



