CHAP. LXIV. 



T?UBIA'CE/E. CEPHALA'NTHUS. 



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CHAP. LXIV. 



OF THE HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER RVEIA^CEJE. 



Tins order includes a great number of genera; but there is only one of these 

 that contains any ligneous species truly hardy in British gardens. 



GENUS I. 



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CEPHALA'NTHUS L. THE BUTTON-WOOD. Lin. Syst. Tetrandria 

 Monogynia. 



Identification. Lin. Gen., No. 113. : Gzertn. Fruct, 2. t. 86. ; Lam. 111., t. 59. ; Juss. Mem. Mus.,. 



p. 402. ; Rich. Diss., with a fig. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 538. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 610. ; Lodd. Cat, ed. 1836. 

 Derivation. From kephale, a head, and anthos, a flower ; in allusion to the flowers being disposed in 



globular heads. 



Gen. Char., $c. Calyx with an obversely pyramidal tube, and an angular 

 5-toothed limb. Corolla with a slender tube, and a 4-cleft limb; lobes 

 erectish. Stamens 4, short, inserted in the upper part of the tube, hardly 

 exserted. Style much exserted. Stigma capitate. Fruit inversely pyra- 

 midal, crowned by the limb of the calyx, 2 4-? celled, and separating into 

 2 4 parts ; cells, or parts, 1 -seeded, indehiscent, and sometimes empty by 

 abortion. Seeds oblong, terminating in a little callous bladder. Albumen 

 somewhat cartilaginous. Embryo inverted in the albumen, with a superior 

 radicle. (Don's MUL, iii. p. 610.) Shrubs, with terete branches. Leaves 

 opposite, or 3 in a whorl. 



a 1. C. OCCIDENTALS L. The Western Button-wood. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 138. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 538. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 610. ; Lod. Cat., ed. 1836. 

 . oppositifolius Mcench Meth., p. 487. ; Swamp Globe Flower, 

 Du Ham. Arb., 1. 1. 54. ; Schkuhr Handb., t. 21., and t 5. b. fruit. ; Lois. Herb. Amat, 



C. oppositifolius' Mcench Meth.,"p. 487.'; Swamp Globe 

 s. Du Ham. Arb., 1. 1. 54. : Schkuhr Handb., t. 21 

 ?luk. Aim., 336. t. 77. f. 4. ; and our figs. 828, 829. 



Spec. Char. y $c. Leaves opposite, or 3 



Synonymcs. 

 Engravin 



t. 272. ; 



Amer. 



829 



in a whorl, ovate or oval, acumi- 

 nated. Peduncles much longer than 

 the heads, usually by threes at the 

 tops of the branches. Petioles red- 

 dish next the branches. Heads of 

 828 



flowers globular, size of a marble. Flowers whitish yellow. There are varieties 

 of this snecies havmo- rhp hmnr-hUfo ,i ,, . -.1 . , , 



- , . <= ui^. -i/iUWCIS WIUUSIl V< 



of this snecies having -the branchlets and young leaves either" gfabrous or 

 downy. (Don's MM., in p. 610.) A shrub, growing to the height of from 

 6 ft. to 8 ft. ; a native of North America, from Canada to Florida, in marshy 

 places. It was introduced in 1735, and flowers in July and August. It w \\\ 

 grow , n common garden soil, but prefers peat kept moist ; and I propagated 

 chiefly by seeds, but will also grow by cuttings and layers. It is an inter- 



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