CHAPTER XVII. 
BROAD-LEAVED EVERGREENS, NOT CONIFEROUS. 
Very few of this class of evergreens succeed in the 
northern part of the United States; probably none 
near their boundary. There are nevertheless some 
which are hardy in a large portion of the territory 
for which this work is designed; and, though none 
of them are of great value for timber culture, and 
some hardly entitled to the appellation of trees, I 
have thought proper to describe them. 
BUXUS—BOX. 
Natural Order, Euphorbiacee. 
Calyx of the male flower, three-leaved ; petals, 
two; stamens, four, inserted under the rudiment of 
a pistil; female calyx, four-leaved, with three petals 
and three styles; capsules, with three beaks; cells, 
three. 
Buxus sempervirens—Boxtree. 
Disk of the leaf, ovate, convex; footstalk, slightly 
downy at the edges; anthers, ovate, arrow-shaped. 
