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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



dry rather than moist, and a warm situation. It is 

 propagated by division of the root, by sucl^ers, or by 

 seeds, which are sometimes received from North America. 



-2 2. A. (s.) TOMENTo'sA Siiiis. The tomentose Birthwort. 



Identification. Sims in Bot. Mag., t. 1369. ; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 

 Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 1369. ; Bot. Cab., t. 641. ; and our^. 1374. 



Spec. Char., ^c. Stem twining. Leaves cordate, downy 

 beneath. Peduncle solitary, without a bractea. Co- 

 rolla with its tube twisted back, and much more deeply 

 divided than in A. sipho, expanding flat, and yellow, 

 with the mouth of the tube of a deep pur[)le. A 



10 ft, 



ng deciduous shrub. 

 to 20 ft. Introd. 1799. 



North America. 

 Flowers as in A. 



Height 

 sipho. 



Order LXIV. UPHORB/J^C^^. 



Ord. Char. Flowers unisexual. Perianth lobed or wanting, furnished inside 

 with hypogynous glandular or scale-formed appendages. Stamens definite 

 or indefinite, free or monadelphous. Ovarium superior, 2 3-celled. Styles 

 equal in number to the cells. Stigmas many, distinct or combined. Capsule 

 of 2 3, or more, 2-valved cells or cocci. Seeds solitary or in pairs, 

 arillate, suspended. Albumen fleshy. {G. Bon.) 



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

 or evergreen ; quite entire. Flowers solitary, aggregate, terminal, lateral, 

 or axillary. Shrubs or small trees, natives of Europe and North Ame- 

 rica, which are tlms contradistinguished : 



Stilli'ng/j Garden. Flowers moncEcious, in spikes. Style 1. Stigmas 3. 

 jSu'xus Tourn. Flowers monoecious, in heaps. Styles 3. Stigmas 3. 



Genus I. 



STILLFNG/J Garden. 



The Stillin'Gia. Lin. Syst. Monce'cia 

 Monadelphia. 



Identification. " Stillingia was sent under that name to Linnjeus, by the celebrated Dr. Alexander 

 Garden." (Smilii in liees's Cyclop.) Lin. Mant., 19. ; Schreb. Lin. Gen., 6.58. 



.Derivation. Named by Dr. Alexander Garden in honcur of Mr. Benjamin Stillinii/ieel, author of 

 a work entitled MisccUaiieuus Tracts relating to Natural History, &c., partly translated from the 

 writings of Linna?us. 



Gen. Char. Floiucrs unisexual ; males in a spike, females at the base of the 

 same spike ; ? dioecious. iliafc. Floiuers seven together. Caly.v like a 

 corolla, of one piece, funnel-shaj)ed, its margin jagged. Stamens 2 3, pro- 

 minent; the filaments sliglitly connected at the base. Female, Involucre 

 1-flowered. Calt/x superior, shaped as in the male. Style thread-shaped. 

 Stigmas 3. Fruit a regma, surrounded at the base by the involucre a little 

 enlarged, somewhat turbinate, 3-lobed. 



Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, deciduous ; entire. Flo'rcrs in spikes, 

 terminal or lateral. Shrubs, deciduous, milky; natives of North America. 



J* 1. S. LiGv'sTRijiA Willd. The Privet-/eaerf Stillingia. 



Identification. Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 588. ; Pursh Fl. Araer. Sept., 2. p. 60S. 

 Engraving. Our fig. 1375. from a specimen in Sir W. J. Hooker's herbarium. 



Spec. Char., l^c. Shrubby. Leaf consisting of a petiole, and a disk that is 



