TREES AND SHRUBS 



Leaves opposite, linear, entire, revolute, caneseent beneath, sessile, fragrant, 

 grey-green. 



An evergreen sltrub, 3-8 ft. ; dense growth. 



Introduced from S. Europe, 1548. Generic name from Gr. ros, dew, and 

 marinus, the sea. 



JERUSALEM SAGE, Phhmis fruticosa. 



Gardens. June, July. This will grow in dry soil, and does well on wild 

 banks. Propagated by cuttings in cold frame in August. 



Flowers yellow or dusky yellow, very showy, ivhorls twin, terminal, 

 20-30-flowered ; Cahjiv 5-toothed, as long as corolla tube, acuminate, thick, 

 coriaceous, scabrous, densely hairy ; Corolla bilabiate, velvety, tube inclosed, 

 upper lip compressed, notched, lower lip large, 8-cleft, spreading; Ovary 

 superior, style gynobasic, curved, stigma bifid; Fruit a carcerulus of 4 

 nutlets, ovoid-triquetrous. 



Leaves opposite, ovate or oblong, acute, roundly cuneate at base, entire, 

 wrinkled, green above, white tomentose beneath, 2| ins. long, j-1 in. wide. 



A deciduous shrub, 2-4 ft. ; Branches clothed with tomentum, usually 

 yellow. 



Native of Mediterranean region ; introduced 1596. 





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Class I Dicotyledons 



Division IV. . . . Incompletce 

 Natural Ordek . . . Laurinece 



Trees or shrubs, aromatic or sometimes foetid ; Leaves alternate or rarely 



opposite, exstipulate, usually coriaceous and evergreen, often with pellucid dots ; 



Flowers 2-sexual, or imperfectly 1 -sexual; Sepals 4-G, in 2 whorls, coloured, 



imbricate in bud ; Stamem definite, perigynous, some barren, filaments often 



glandular at base, anthers opening by valves ; Ovary superior, 1-celled ; Fruit 



a berry or drupe. 



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