132 MONOECIA— TETRANDRIA. Buxus. 



A. glutinosa. Gcertn. v. 2. 54. Willd. Sp. PL v. 4. 334. Comp. ed. 

 4.155. Hook. Lond.t. 59. Scot.27\. 



A. n. 1 630. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 300. 



Alnus. RaiiSijn. 442. Ger. Em.]477.f. Lob. Ic.v.2. \9l.f. 



Trag. Hist. 1084./. Matth. Valgr. v. 1. 127./. Camer. Epit. 



68./ Loes. Pruss. \0.t.\. Dalech. Hist. 97./. 

 Betula Alnus. Linn. Sp. PL 1394, a. Fl. Br. 1013. Engl. BoL 



v. 21.^. 1508. 



B. emarginata. Elirh. Arb. 9. 

 Common Alder. Hunt. Evel. Sylv. 240. f. 



In watery meadows^ near lakes, rivers, or pools. 



Tree. March. 



Trunk crooked, rugged, of no great height ; with crooked, spread- 

 ing, round, smooth branches, glutinous when young. Leaves 

 roundish, obtuse, or lopped at the end, wavy, serrated, plaited, 

 glutinous, of a deep shining green, with one rib, and many 

 transverse parallel veins, downy at their origin beneath. Sti- 

 pulas roundish, entire. Barren catkins long, pendulous ; fertile 

 short, oval, more spreading, permanent. 



fVood reddish, hard, though brittle, used chiefly for women's clogs 

 or pattens. The bark dyes linen of a dull red, and with iron 

 brown, or black. Alders have the colour and effect of oaks, in 

 wet boggy situation.s, where the latter will not thrive. 



431. BUXUS. Box-tree. 



Linn. Gen. 4S6. Juss.388. Fl. Br. 10\3. Tourn.t.345. Lam. 

 t.76]. Gartn.t. lOS. 



Nat. Ord. Tricoccce. Linn. 38. Euphorhice. Juss. 96. 



Barr.Jl. Cal. of 3 roundish, obtuse, concave, spreading, 

 coloured leaves. Pet. 2, roundish, concave, spreading, 

 similar to the calyx, but rather larger. Filam, 4, awl- 

 shaped, spreading, about the length of the petals. Anth. 

 2-lobed, incumbent. A slight rudiment oi s. gey-men. 



Fert.Jl. from the same bud. CaL inferior, of 4 roundish, 

 obtuse, concave, spreading, permanent leaves. Pet. 3, 

 roundish, concave, like the calyx, but larger. Germ, su- 

 perior, nearly globular, with 3 blunt angles, or lobes. 

 Styles 3, spreading, short, thick, permanent. Stigm. ob- 

 tuse, rough. Caps, globular, with 3 spreading beaks, of 

 3 cells, and 3 valves, bursting elastically. Seeds 2 in each 

 cell, erect, parallel, oblong, slightly compressed ; exter- 

 nally rounded. 



Evergreen slirubs, or small trees, with rigid, smooth, stalk- 

 ed, opposite, entire leaves. Fl. aggregate, from axillary 

 buds, whitish. Fr. green. 



