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ARBORETUM AND FRUT1CETUM. 



PART III. 



App. i. Half-hardy Species o 



E. dendroides L. is a native of Italy, Crete, and of the Island of 

 Hieres, near Toulon, where it forms a small branched shrub, about 

 4 ft. high. E. Characias and E. dendroides, according to Dr. Philippi, 

 grow in the streams of decayed lava on Etna. E. dendroides, he adds, 

 " is one of the finest shrubs in Sicily, and rises to a height of about 

 6ft, the stem forking soon above the ground, and each branch di- 

 vided again, so that the form of the whole is perfectly semiglobular. 

 In summer it is quite bare of foliage, when the numerous, smooth, 

 verticillate branches give the plant a most singular appearance ; but 

 with the rains of autumn the numerous linear leaves begin to sprout 

 forth at the end of the boughs, and a corymb of yellow flowers tips 

 the extremity of each in February." (Comp. to the Bot. Mag., i. 51.) 



E. mellifera Ait., Bot. Mag., t. 1305., and our^g.1214., is a handsome 

 free-growing shrub, a native of Madeira. A plant stood out in the 

 Trinity College Botanic Garden, at Dublin, from 1821 to 1831, form- 

 ing a bush about 4J ft. high, and 5 ft. in diameter, flowering all the 

 winter. It was cut down by the severe frost of the spring of 1831, 

 but sprang up again ; and it is now (Sept. 1836), Mr. Mackay informs 

 us, nearly 5ft. in height, and 5ft. in diameter. E. Chaiacias, in the 

 same garden, rarely exceeds 2| ft in height. 



Other species, natives of the Levant, the Canaries, Portugal, and 

 North and South America, may possibly be found as hardy as E. mel- 

 lifera. In the Vucs Phytostatiqucs of Webb and Bcrtholet's Histoire 

 Nalurelle des lies Canaries, the E. canariensis and E. piscatbria are 

 represented in pi 2. as the prevailing species ; the latter forming 

 handsome trees, fromlOft to 15ft. high, with straight, erect stems 



GENUS II. 



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The only hardy species is a deciduous shrub; a native of 



STILLI'NGL* Garden. THE STILLINGIA. Lin. Syst. Monoe'cia 

 Monaddlphia. 



Identification. " Stillingia was sent under that name to Linnaeus by the celebrated Dr. Alexander 



Garden." (Smith in Rees's Cyclop.) Lin. Mant, 19.; Schreb. Lin. Gen., 658. ; Smith in Rces's 



Cyclop. ; Mart. Mill. Diet. 

 Derivation. Named by Dr. Alexander Garden in honour of Mr. Benjamin Stillingfleet, author of 



a work entitled Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Natural History, &'c., partly translated from tin- 



writings of Linnaeus. 



Description, fyc. 

 North America. 



* 1. S. LIGU'STRINA Willd. The Privet-leaved Stillingia. 



Identification. Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 588. ; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept, 2. p. 608. 



Spec. Char., $c. Shrubby. Leaf consisting of a petiole and a disk that is 

 oval-lanceolate, pointed at both ends, and entire. Male flowers upon very 

 short pedicels. (Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., ii. p. 213.) Nuttall has questioned 

 whether the sexes are not dioecious, and has noted the female flowers as 

 " not seen," but the male ones as being disposed in spikes, part lateral, part 

 terminal, and as having a 3-cleft, rather flat, calyx, and 3 stamens that have 

 kidney-shaped anthers; and the bracteas as 1-2-glanded and 1-flowered. 

 (Nutt. Gen. Amer.) A deciduous shrub, growing about 4ft. high; a native 

 of North America, in shady woods, in Carolina and Georgia ; flowering in 

 June and July. It was introduced in 1812, and plants were in the collection 

 of Messrs. Loddiges in 1830. From these gentlemen we received a plant 

 in that year, but it is since dead ; as is also a plant of this species in the 

 Hackney arboretum ; we are not aware that the species is now in exist- 

 ence, in a living state, in England. 



GENUS III. 



PU'XUS Town. THE Box TREE. Lin. Syst. Monce'cia Tetramlria. 



Identification. Tourn. Inst, t. 345. ; Lin. Gen., 486. ; Smith Eng. Flora. 4. p. 13','. ; Theodor Noes 



ab Esenbcck Gen. Plant. Floras Germanicse, fasc. 3. t. 1(5. 

 Si/onymcn. Buis, /'V. ; Buxbaum, Buchsb.utm, Gcr. 



