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1292. L. europaeum- 



Valuable for covering naked walls, as it grows with 

 extreme rapidity, and flowers and fruits freely, in almost 

 any soil or situation. Established plants, in good soil, 

 will make shoots 10 or 12 feet in length in one season; 

 and the plant, when trained against a house or high 

 wall, will reach the height of 30 or 40 feet, as maybe 

 seen in some courts in Paris. Trained to a strong 

 iron rod, to the height of 20 or 30 feet, and then allowed 

 to spread over an umbrella head, it would make' a 

 splendid bower. Its shoots would hang down to the 

 ground, and form a complete screen on every side, 

 ornamented from top to bottom with ripe fruit, which is 

 bi'ight scarlet or yellow, and very showy ; with unripe 

 fruit, which is of a lurid purple; or with blossoms, which 

 are purple and white. Some idea of the quantity of ripe 

 and unripe fruit, and of blossoms, which may be found 

 on a shoot at one time, may be formed from fig. 1292., 

 which is only a portion of a shoot, the upper part of 

 which (not exhibited in the figure) contained two or 

 three dozen of fruit, all ripe at once. 



Varieties. There is a variety with yellow fruit, and 

 another with the fruit roundish ; and, in our opinion, 

 L. barbarum, chinense, ruthenicum, Shaw?, and 

 Trewm7n/7, all of which we have seen in Loddiges's 

 arboretum, and in the Paris gardens in 1840, are 

 nothing more than variations of the same form. 



1 2. Li. (e.) ba'rbarum Li. The Barbary Box Thorn. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 277.; Don's Mill., 4. p. 458. 



Synonym.es. L. Aalimifblium Mill. Diet. No. 6. ; L. barbarum avulgare 



Ait. Hort. KeiiK 1. p. 2.57. ; the Duke of Argyll's Tea Tree. 

 Engravings. Dend. Brit., t. 9. ; and onrfi'g. 1293. 



Spec. Char., ^-c. Branches depend- 

 ent. Buds spiny. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate, flat, glabrous, acute. 

 Flowers twin, extra-axillary, pe- 

 dicellate. Corolla funnel-shaped. 

 Stamens exserted, about equal in 

 length to the limb* Branches 

 angular. Buds often without 

 spines. Calyx 2 3-lobcd. Co- 

 rolla with a purple limb, and 

 yellowish base. Stigma 2-lobed. 

 Berry ovate, yellow. Stamens 

 bearded near the base. There is 

 a variety of this, having livid or 

 pale corollas, and reddish yellow 

 berries. (Don's Alill.) A climbing 

 deciduous shrub. North of Asia, 

 Africa, and South of Europe. 

 Stem 20 ft. to 30 ft. Introduced in 1696 

 and other particulars as in L. europae'a. 



-* 1 3. L. (e.) chine'nse Mill. The Chinese Box Thorn. 



Identification. Mill. Diet., No. 5. : Don's Mill., 4. p. 458. 

 Synonymes. L. bftrbarum /3 chinense Ait. Hort. Kew. 1. p. 257. ; L. 



b&rbarum Lour. Coch. 1. p. 165. ? ; L. ovatum N. Du Ham. 1. p. 107. 

 Engravings. Dend. Brit., t. 8. ; and our fig. 1294. from the N. Du 



Ham., and fig. 1295. from a living specimen. 



Spec. Char., Src Branches pendulous, prostrate, striated. 

 Buds spinescent. Leaves by threes, ovate, acute, 



li!93 L. (e.) barbarum. 



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