CALYCANTHACE^ 



CAROLINA ALLSPICE, Calycanthus faridus. 



Gardens, shrubberies. May be grown against a wall, or as a shrub in the 

 open in a moist spot. May — August. 



The genus Calycanthus contain three hardy deciduous shrubs with lurid 

 purple or red sweet-scented flowers. They thrive best in a mixture of peaty 

 loam and leaf-mould in the sheltered shrubbery or against a south or west 

 wall. Layering of shoots may be done in July or August ; seeds sown as 

 soon as ripe, or in spring in a cold frame. 



Floivcrs lurid purple, solitary and terminal, H in. diam., strongly aro- 

 matic when crushed, like Strawberries, Apples, or Quinces ; Bracts, Sepals, 

 and Petals numerous, similar, and merging into each other, linear-oblong, 

 acute or obtuse, i-| in. long ; Stamens numerous, inserted on top of recep- 

 tacle, filaments all but obsolete ; Fruit rare ; a capsule. 



Leaves opposite, oval, obtuse, entire, coriaceous, deep green, downy 

 beneath, shortly petiolate, 1-11 in. broad. 



A deciduous shrub, (5-8 ft., forming a dense, round-headed bush ; branch- 

 lets downy; Branches and roots smelling of camphor when bruised; Bark 

 used as substitute for cinnamon. 



Introduced from Carolina, 172G. 



GLAUCOUS-LEAVED ALLSPICE, Calycanthus glmccus. 



Gardens, shrubberies. May. 



Flowers greenish-purple, almost scentless, solitary and terminal ; Sepals and 

 Petals linear or linear-lanceolate, acute ; Fruit a capsule. 



Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, tapering acuminate, flattened, green 

 above, glaucous and pubescent beneath. 



A deciduous shrub, 4-8 ft. ; Branchlets glabrous. 



Introduced from Carolina, 1726. Syn. C. fertilis. 



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