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ARBORETUM ET FRUTU'ETUM BRITANNICUM. 



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Spec. Char., Sj-c. Glabrous, except that the branchlets are beset with short 

 white hairs. Leaves eUiptical-lanceolate, acute, ovate, or taper at the base, 

 serrated. Flowers white, disposed unilaterally in long lateral and terminal 

 racemes. (Do7t's Mill.') An erect evergreen shrub. Canada to Florida. 

 Height 2 ft. Introduced in ? 1812. Flowers white ; June. 



Genus X. 



PFERIS D. Don. The Pieris. Lin. Syst. Decandria Monogynia. 



Identification. X). Don in Edinb. New Phil. Journ., 17. p. 159. ; Don'.s Mill., 3. p. 832. 

 Synonyme. Andromeda sp. iVallich. 



Derivation Pieris, a general appellation of the Musps, who were called Pieridss, from their birth, 

 place, Pieria, in Thessaly. 



Gen. Char. Calyx deeply 5-parted. Corolla tubular or ovate, with a con- 

 tracted, 5-toothed, revolute border. Stamens enclosed ; filaments dilated, 

 bisetose at top ; cells of anthers short, incumbent, dehiscing lengthwise. 

 Style robust, pentagonal. Stigma truncate. Capsule with a loculicidal de- 

 hiscence. Seeds scobiform. {I)oi^s Mill.) 



Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, evergreen ; coriaceous. Floivers droop- 

 ing, terminal, racemose. Shrub or low tree, evergreen, native of Nepal. 



I 1. P. ovalifo'lia D. Don. The oval-leaved Pieris. 



Identification. Ed. Phil. Journ., 17. p. 159. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 832 

 Sijnonymes. kwAxixncia ovaXiRAXa. Asiat. Res. \Z. p. 391.; A. capricida 



Hamillon MSS. 

 Engravings. Asiat. Res., 13. p. 391. ; and onr fig. 1070. 



Spec. Char., ^-c. Leaves oval, acuminated, 2 in. to 4 in. 

 long, 1 in. to 2 in. broad, rounded at the base, entire, 

 downy when young. Flowers upon downy pedicels, 

 and disposed unilaterally in lateral, leafy, lengthened 

 racemes, many in a raceme. Racemes numerous. 

 Segments of calyx ovate and acute. Corolla oblong, 

 downy, pale flesh-colour. {Dons Mill.) An evergreen 

 low tree. Nepal, at Suembu and Sirinagur. Height 

 20 ft. to 40 ft. ; in British gardens 2 ft. to 3 ft. In- 

 troduced in 1825. Flowers white ; May. ioto. r.ova:*.! 



Genus XI. 



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PHYLLO'DOCj^ Sal. The Phyllodoce. Lin. Syst. Decandria 



Monogynia. 



Identification. Sal. Par., t. 3G. ; D. Don in Ed. Phil. Journ., July, 1834 ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 832. 



Synony7nes. Andrdmeda sp. L. ; Menzies/ sp. Swartz, Smith. 



Derivation. P/iyllodoce, the name of one of the nymphs of Cyrene, daughter of the river Peneus. 



Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partcd. Corolla globose, with a contracted 5-tootheJ 

 mouth. Stamens 10, enclosed; filaments slender, glabrous ; cells of anthers 

 short, truncate, mutic. Stigma peltate, 5-tuberculate. Capsule 5-celled, 

 with a septicida! dehiscence. Seeds compressed, shining. (Don's Mill.) 



Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, evergreen ; linear, obtuse, spreading. 

 Flonrers terminal, solitary, or many together in a kind of umbel. Shrubs, 

 evergreen, very diminutive. Natives of the North of Europe, Asia, and 

 North America. 



