LXXVI. TAXA^CEiE : SALISBU^R/^. 



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and consisting of a rather globose calyx, contracted to a point, and then 

 expanded into a narrow limb, and including an ovary. Calyx fleshy and 

 persistent, becoming a drupaceous covering to a nut, which is rather egg- 

 shaped, and very slightly compressed. {G. Don.) 



Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, deciduous ; deeply cut or lobed, alike 

 on both surfaces, with long petioles. Flowers yellowish. Tree deciduous, 

 large, native of Japan, quite hardy in the climate of London, and of easy 

 culture in common garden soil. 



Remarkable for the singularity of its leaves, which seem to unite Coniferge 

 with the Corylacese. Propagated by cuttings or layers in good loamy soils. 



5^ 1. S. ^DiANTiFO^LiA Smith. The Maiden-hair-ieaved Salisburia, 



or Ginkgo Tree. 



Identification. Trans. Lin. Soc, B. p. 330. ; Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 472. 



Synonymes. Gingko, G?n-an, or Jtsjo. Kxvnpf. Amcen., p 811.; Ginkgo bWoha. Lin. Mant. p.313. ; 



Noyer du Japon, Arbre aux quarante E'cus, Fr. ; Albero adianto, Ital. 

 The Seies. Both sexes are in the Kew Botanic Garden, in the Hackney Arboretum, and in our 



garden at Bayswater. 

 Engravings. Ksempf. Amoeti., p. 811. f . ; Dend. Brit., t. 168. ; Jacquin Ueber den Ginkgo, t. 1.; 



the plates of this tree in Arb. Brit, 1st edit., vol. viii. ; and out Jigs. 1757. and 1758. 



Spec. Char., ^-c. See Gen. Char. A large conical deciduous tree. Japan 

 and China. Height 60 ft. to 80 ft. Introduced in 1754. Flowers yel- 

 lowish. Only those of the male yet seen in England. Decaying leaves 

 yellow, or yellowish green. 



The male catkins, which appear with the leaves in May, on the wood 

 of the preceding year or on old spurs, are sessile, about 1^ in. long, and 

 of a yellowish colour. The female flowers, according to Richard, have 



1757. S. odiantifolia. 



this particularity, that each is in part enclosed in a sort of cup, like the female 

 flowers of Dacrydium. This covering is supposed to be produced by a dilata- 

 tion of the summit of the peduncle, as may be seen in our figure. The fruit 

 consists of a globular or ovate drupe, about 1 in. in diameter ; containing a 

 white nut, or endocarp, somewhat flattened, of a woody tissue, thin, and 

 breaking easily. The fruit has been ripened in the South of France, and 

 young plants raised from it. The tree grows with considerable rapidity in the 



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