FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS 111 



Lycium (Solanaceae). 



Lyoium barbabum. — Box Thorn, or Tea Tree. North 

 Asia, 1696. A pretty lax, trailing shrub, with long, 

 slender, flexible twigs, small linear-lanceolate leaves, and 

 rather sparsely-produced lilac or violet flowers. Planted 

 against a wall, or beside a stout-growing, open-habited 

 shrub, where the peculiarly lithe branches can find 

 support, this plant does best. Probably nowhere is the 

 Box Thorn so much at home as in seaside places, it then 

 attaining to sometimes 12 feet in height, and bearing 

 freely its showy flowers during summer, and the bright 

 scarlet or orange berries in winter. 



L. europium. — European Box Thorn. South Europe, 

 1780. This is a spiny, rambling shrub, that may often be 

 seen clambering over some cottage porch, or used as a 

 fence or wall plant in many parts of England. It often 

 grows nearly 20 feet long, and is then a plant of great 

 beauty, with linear-spathulate leaves of the freshest green, 

 and pretty little pink or reddish flowers. For quickly 

 covering steep, dry banks and mounds where few other 

 plants could exist, this European Box Thorn is invaluable. 

 Either species will grow in very poor, dry soil, and is 

 readily propagated by means of cuttings. 



L. pallidum (Arizona, 1888) has green or purple-tinged 

 flowers and showy bright red fruit. 



Lyonia (Ericaceae), ' 



Lyonia paniculata (syns L. ligustrina, Andromeda 

 globulifera, A. piUfera, and Menziesia globularis). — North 

 America, 1806. This species grows about a yard high, 

 with clustered ovate leaves, and pretty, pinky-white, 

 drooping flowers. Sandy peat will suit it. 



