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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



A RT 111. 



tube and a 4-parted limb; segments of the limb long and linear. >7///< 

 hardly any. Stigma 2-lobed. Anthers almost sessile. Drupe baccate, 

 containing a striated nut. Seeds albuminous. (Don's Mill., iv.p, 30.) 

 Deciduous trees or shrubs, having the branchlets compressed at top. 

 LeavevS opposite, simple, entire. Racemes simple or compound, terminal 

 or axillary. Flowers snow-white. This genus differs from O v lea, princi- 

 pally in the figure of the segments of the corolla, and in its leaves being 

 deciduous. The only hardy species is a native of North America. 



t 1. C. VIRGI'NICA L. The Virginian Snow-Flower, or Fringe Tree. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., p. 11. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 50. ; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 



St/nonymes. Snowdrop Tree, Amer. ; Arbre de neige, Fr. ; Sclineeblume Ger. 



f'.iwavings. Lodd. Bot. Cab., t.1204. ; Du Ham. Arb., 1. p. 165. t. 63. ; Catcsb. Car., 1. 1 68. ; oury<v 



1029., to a scale of 2 in. to 1 ft. ; and fig. 1030., which is a portrait of a plant in the arboretum of 



Messrs. Loddiges, to a scale of 1 in. to 4 ft. 



Spec. Char., $c. Racemes terminal. Peduncles 3-flowered. Flowers pedicel- 

 late. Leaves lanceolate, glabrous, resembling those of a deciduous magnolia, 

 Drupe purplish. (Don's Mill., iv. 

 p. 50.) A tree from 10 ft. to 30 ft. 

 high, a native of North America. It 

 was introduced in 1796, and flowers 

 from May to July. It requires to be 



1029 



grown in moist soil, either sandy 

 peat or sandy loam, and in a shel- 

 tered situation. It may be propa- 

 gated by layers ; but as seeds are 

 easily imported from America, and 

 as the plant does not root very 

 readily, that mode is not often adopted. It may also be propagated by 

 grafting on the common ash ; and, if this were done standard high, it 

 would, from its large leaves, and the beauty and singular appearance of its 

 snow-white flowers, which look like fringe, form a splendid tree. The 

 leaves are often 1 ft. long, and nearly half as broad ; but neither the 

 leaves nor the flowers will attain any degree of perfection, unless the soil 

 be kept moist. The largest plant that we know of, in the neighbourhood of 

 London, is at Syon, where, in 1835, it was upwards of 10ft. high, with a 

 trunk 7 in. in diameter. The price of plants, in London, is 1*. (yd. each, 

 and of seeds 1*. a packet; at New York, plants are 50 cents each. 



Varieties. 



as C. v. 2 lad/alia Catesb. Car., t. 69., Kern.,t. 607., Ait. A'ew., 1. 

 p. 23.; C. v. montana Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 8.; has the 

 leaves oval-lanceolate, coriaceous, glabrous ; panicles dense ; drupes 

 oval. A native of Carolina. Introduced in 17.'W. There is a plant 

 of this variety in the Marvlebone Nursery. 



m $ C. v. 3 angn tfifo/ia Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2*, vol. 1. p. 23. : ('. trifida 



