CHA1'. U. 



Z7LMA 



1371 



SiH-r. Char., ifr. Inhabit and leaves, somewhat resembling the common privet 

 (/Jiiustrum vulgare //.). Leaves with very short petioles, and disks that are 

 lanceolate-oblong, entire, somewhat membranous. Fruit rather shortly 

 ovate. (Michx. Ft. Itor. Atner.) A native of North America, in thickets 

 about rivers, in the countries of the Illinois, Tennessee, &c. ; flowering in 

 July and August. (Smith.) Introduced into England in 181 -2, by Lyon ; 

 and there are plants in the arboretum of Messrs. Loddiges, where it grows 

 freely in common garden soil, forming a shrub, apparently a fit associate 

 for Z/igtistruni, Fontanesiaf, and Z'rinos. 



sis '>. B. (?.) ACUMINA V TA Willd. The acuminate-/tY/m/ Borya. 



Identification. Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 711.; Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., vol. 5. 

 Si/noni/mt's. Adfilia acuminata Michx. Fl. ffm: Atncr.,2. p. 22.0. t.4S.; 

 ' BigelbvwJ acuminata Smith in Rces's Cyclop. Addenda, Ludd. Cat., 

 ed. 1836. 



The Sexes. Uncertain which is in England. 

 Engravings. Michx. Fl. 13or. Amer., 2. t. 28. ; and our Jig. 1229. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves membranous, lanceolate in 

 almost a rhombic manner ; but most tapered to the 

 outward end ; l- in. long, serrulate. Male flowers 

 several together in small sessile tufts, encompassed 

 with several ovate bracteas. Female flowers 

 stalked, very small. Fruit pendulous, elliptic-ob- 

 long, nearly 1 in. long before it is ripe, tapered to 

 the tip in a beak-like manner. It appears that the 

 taper lateral branches form something like thorns. 

 (Michx. and Smith.) Indigenous to the banks of 

 rivers in Carolina and Georgia. Introduced into 

 England in 1812; but the plants in the arboretum 

 of Messrs. Loddiges have not yet flowered. The 

 only difference which we can observe between 

 B. acuminata and B. /igustrina is, that the former 

 has the leaves of a paler green. 





a* 3. B. (L.) I>ORULO V SA Willd. The pore-like-dotted-leaved Borya. 



Identification. Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 711. ; Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., vol. 5. 



Synonijines. Adclia porulosa Michx. Ft. Bar. Amcr., 2. p. 224. ; BigeRwVi poruldsa Smith 



in Kccs's 



Cyclop., Addenda ; ? B. ov&ta Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 

 The Seres. Uncertain which is in England. 



pec Char , <$c Leaves coriaceous, sessile, lanceolately ovate, bnt with a 

 blunt point, entire; the lateral edges revolute; under surface rather rusty, 

 and punctured with little holes. (Michx. Fl. Bor. Ainer.) It is indigenous 

 to the coasts of Georgia and Florida. Introduced into England in 1806. 

 The plants in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges differ from B. /igustrina, 

 chiefly in the leaves being shorter. 



* 4. B. DISTICHOPHY'LLA Nutt. The two-rowed-leaved Borya. 



Identification. Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. PL, 2. p. 232. 



S/H-C. Char., $c. A shrub, 12 ft. to 16ft. high. Leaves in two rows, subsessile, lanceolate, acute, cntiro 



rough at the edge, membranous. HranchU-ts very slender. Scales of the bud pungently acute, 



f ?J " confluent in the leaves." Indigenous to the banks of French Broad River, East Tennessee. 



(\ntt<il/, who had seen it alive.) Mr. George Don thinks that this plant has been introduced; but 



we have never seen it 



CHAP. CI. 



OL- THE HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER 7LMA V CE,E. 



THEY are included in three genera, which have the following names and 



* liaracters : 



r'mrs /,. Flowers, in most specie?., protruded earlier than the shoots 

 and leaves; of the } ear; disposed in groups, each group lateral, and proceeding 



