ARBORETUM AM) FRL'TICETU.M. 



PART 111 



branches are downy. Leaves alternate, oblong, 

 linear; cut on each side into rounded and numerous 

 lobes, like tluxe of the ceterach; and sprinkled with 

 shining dots, like those of the gales. The male cat- 

 kins are oblong and sessile; female catkins sessile, 

 solitarv, lateral, and bristly, with numerous filaments. 

 According to Pursh, the whole plant, when rubbed, 

 has a roinous scent. A native of North America, 

 from New England to Virginia, in sandy, stony, or - 

 slatv woods. It was introduced in 1714, by the 

 Duchess of Beaufort. The shrub is very hardy, but 

 it requires peat earth and a shady situation. It may - 

 be propagated by layers, suckers, or seeds. The first 

 and second methods are the most common, as good 

 seeds can rarely be procured. Plants, in the Lon- 

 don nurseries, are from [s. to Is. 6d. each ; at Boll- ,, 

 wyller, 3 francs; and at New York, 37 i cents. 



CHAP. CX. 



OF THE HALF-HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER 

 CASUARA V CE;. 



r l'u is remarkable family consists of branchy trees, the branches of which 

 are in all cases, when fully grown, " long, drooping, green, and wiry, with 

 very small scale-like sheaths, in the room of leaves. The flowers are unisexual, 

 and disposed in verticillate spikes; they have neither calyx nor corolla, are 

 monandrous, and their ovaries are lenticular, with a solitary erect ovule. The 

 fruit consists of hardened bracts, enclosing the small caryopses, or nut-like 

 seeds, which are winged." (Linill. in Paini/ O/r.) Natives of Asia, Australia, 

 and Polynesia. This order was formerly considered to belong to Conf ferae ; 

 but is now placed by botanists next to J/yricacece. The timber of some of 

 the species forms the beef-wood of the New South Wales colonists, and is 

 of excellent quality. In British gardens, the plants are more hardy than most 

 of the Australian trees ; and, in warm situations in Devonshire, or sheltered 

 by evergreens in other [tarts of the south of England, would probably attain 

 a timber-like si/e without any care or trouble whatever. 



Gixiifirhifi cfjitist'/ijii/ia Ait. Hort. Ke\v., iii. p. .'i^O., Willd. Sp. PI., iv. p. 190., 

 Hot. ( 'al., t. fid?., and our ///. 1 (ft'2. ; ( '. littorea Rni])li. A>///>., iii. t. .'">?. ; Swamp 

 Oak, Austral.', Eilao a Eeuilles de Prele, /'/-. Monavious. Branchlets weak, 

 round. Scales of the strobiles unarmed, villous; sheaths of the male 7-parted, 

 ciliated. A lofty tree, \\itli a lai'L'c trunk, and numerous branches. These 

 branches are long, slender, wand-like, cylindrical, weak, and drooping, bearing 

 a L'reat resemblance to those of the common horsetail. Six or seven scales, 

 or teeth, on each branch, serve instead of leaves. The catkins are upright 

 and terminal; the scale-, of the cones are downy; and those of the male cat- 

 kins are ciliated. In Australia, it flowers in October and November. It is a 

 native of the East Indies, New Holland, and the South Sea Islands; from 

 \\hich last country it was introduced in 17 (in, by Admiral Byron. Eroin 

 the cone-like shape of its fruit, it was at first supposed to belong to the Co- 

 nifene, and was railed the' Tinian pine. It stands out in the climate of 

 London; and there is a tree in the garden ol"\Vm. Bromley, Esq., 1 1 It. high, 

 of which our fin. lf>7^. is a portrait, taken in ]*.'>}. In the Transactions of the 

 Horticultural Society for IMs i* an account, accompanied by a figure of the 

 entire tree, of a .species of ('asuariiia then Crowing in the gardens of Bel- 

 \rdere, near Weimar, communicated by His Koyal Highness diaries Angus- 



