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AHBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



these be removed as they are produced, it will form a very handsome low tree. 

 Seeds, suckers, layers, or cuttings, in any common soil, kejjt moist. The 

 largest plants of this species, in the neighbourhood of London, are at Syon. 



a^ 3? 2. S. piNNA^TA L. The pinnated-fcauerf Staphylea, or Bladder-nut Tree. 



Identification. Lin. Sn., .'iSfi. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 3. ; Don's Jlill., 2. p. 3. 



Synonymes. Staphylodendrnn pinnatum Ray ; Staphilier i Feuilles ailees, Fr. : gemeine Pimper- 



nuss, Ger. ; Lacrime di Giobbe, or Pistaccliio falso, Ital. ; Job's Tears. 

 Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 15C0. ; Hayne Abbild., t. 36. ; and our A'r- IDS- 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves pinnate, of 5 7 oblong, perfectly glabrous, serrate 

 leaflets ; the flowers in racemes ; the capsules membranous and bladdery. 

 {Dec. Prod.) Shrub or low tree. South of Europe, and ? England in 

 hedges. Height 6 ft. to 12 ft. Flowers whitish ; May and June. Nuts 

 globose white^ in a bladdery capsule ; ripe in October. Decaying leaves 

 yellowish green. Naked young wood greenish, with green buds. 



A smooth branching shrub, throwing up 

 many side suckers, in gardens often from 

 6 ft. to 12 ft. high, and exhibiting a much 

 more luxuriant growth than the preceding 

 species. The nuts, in' some parts of Europe, 

 are strung for beads by the Roman Catholics. 

 The kernels taste like those of the pistacia, 

 and are eaten in Germany by children. The 

 flowers contain a great deal of honey, and 

 are very attractive to bees. In the London 

 nurseries, the plant is generally cultivated by 

 side suckers, by cuttings put in during the 

 month of September, or by seeds, which, 

 are ripened in abundance. The seeds ought 

 to be sown as soon as they are ripe ; be- 

 cause, as they contain an oil, they very soon 

 become rancid. They will come up the following June, with two large, lance- 

 shaped, seminal leaves ; though sometimes they do not come up for two years. 



taphvl^a pinniita. 



Order XX. CELASTRA^CE^. 



Ord. Char. Sepals 4 6 : aestivation imbricate. Petals 4 6. Stamens 4^ 6, 

 alternate with the petals, opposite the ^sepals, indistinctly perigynous. 

 Oi'flTj/ superior, free, girded with a fleshy disk, with 2 4 cells. Ovules erect, 

 rarely pendulous. Fruit capsular, baccate, drupaceous, or samarideous. 

 Seeds, in most, attended with an aril. (Lindl.) 



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

 evergreen. Fton-ers whitish or greenish, in axillary cymes. Shrubs or 

 low trees, generally deciduous ; natives of both hemispheres. 



The species are chiefly remarkable for the form and colours of their fruits; 

 their flowers being neither large nor showy, nor their properties valuable in 

 medicine, or general economy. All the species are readily increased by layers, 

 by cuttings struck in sand, or by seeds in any common soil. The genera 

 containing hanly species are ^uonymus, Celastrus, and Neraopanthes, which 

 are thus contradistinguished : 

 J^uo'nymus Tourn. Sexes mostly hermaphrodite. Fruit a dehiscent capsule, 



of 3 5 cells. Seed with an aril. Leaves mostly opposite. 

 Cela'strus L. Sexes mostly hermaphrodite. Fruit a dehiscent capsule 



of 2 3-cells. Seed with an aril. Leaves alternate. 

 Nemopa'nthes Rafin. Sexes polygamous or dia^cious. Fruit an indehiscent 



berry 



