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241. Palitras aculeatus. 
sembles its brim; the French have given this tree the name of porte-chapeau. 
On both shores of the Mediterranean, it grows to about the same height as 
the common hawthorn, on rocky sterile places. In many parts of Italy the 
hedges are formed of this plant, as they are of the hawthorn in Britain ; it is 
also the common hedge plant in Asia. Any common soil; seeds, or cuttings 
of the root. 
% 2. P.(a.) virea‘tus D. Don. The twiggy Christ’s Thorn. 
dentification. D. Don in Bot. Mag.; and Fl. Nep., 189.3 Don’s Mill., 2. p. 23. 
qaneere oE Boe saa. : Pad our Jig. oe Bae scien 
Spec. Char., §c. Branches smooth. Leaves obliquely cor- 
date, or elliptical, 3-nerved, shining ; wing of fruit entire. 
(G. Don.) A deciduous shrub. Nepal, on mountains. p 
Height 10 ft. to 15 ft. Introduced in 1819. Flowers \ 
greenish yellow, in axillary corymbs; July and August. 
Fruit yellow ; ripe in September. 
The only tree which we have seen of this species is in 
the Chelsea Botanic Garden, where in general aspect it + YM, 
bears a close resemblance to P. aculeatus, of which it is in 249, patiarus virgatu 
all probability only a variety. 
Genus III. 
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BERCHE'MI/A Neck. Tur Bercaemia. Lin. Syst. Pentandria 
Monog/fnia. 
Tdesiiiention. Neck. Elem., 2. p. 122.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 22.; Brongn. Mém. Rham., 49. ; Don’s 
ill., 2. p. 27. 
& mae CEnéplia Hedw. F. Gen. 1. p. 151., and Schult. Syst. 5. p. 962.: 
ertvation. From Berchem, probably the name of some botanist. 
Gen. Char. Calyx with a hemispherical tube, and 5 erect segments. Petals 
5, convolute. Stamens included within the petals. Anthers ovate, 2-celled. 
