620 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
ing a 2—4-celled nut. Cells I-seeded. Albumen fleshy.— The inferior 
ovarium is sufficient to distinguish this from all nearly allied orders. (G. 
Don.) 
Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, deciduous ; serrated or nearly entire. 
Flowers in fascicles, pedicellate, drooping, white.— Trees or large shrubs. 
deciduous ; natives of North America. 
Genus I. 
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HALE'SIA Ellis. Tur Hauesia, or SNowprop Tree. Lin, Syst. 
Dodecandria Monogynia. 
Identification. Ellis in Lin. Gen., No. 596. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 6. 
Synonyme. Halésie, Fr. and Ger’. 
Derivation. Named by Ellis in honour of the learned and venerable Stephen Hales, D.D. F.R.S., 
author of Vegetable Statistics. 
Gen. Char., §c. Corolla monopetalous, ventricosely campanulate, with a 
4-lobed erect border. Stamens 12 to 16; filaments combined into a tube 
at the base, and adnate to the corolla. Anthers oblong, erect, 2-celled, de- 
hiscing lengthwise. Ovarium inferior. Style 1. Stigma simple. Drupe 
dry, corticate, oblong, with 2—4 winged angles, terminated by the perma- 
nent style ; containing a 2+-4-celled putamen, which is acute at both ends. 
Cells l-sceded. Seeds attached to the bottom of the cells. 
Leaves, §c., as in the Order. Flowers in lateral fascicles, pedicellate, 
drooping, white. — Trees, deciduous ; natives of North America ; very hardy 
in England ; thriving best in peat soil kept moist, and ripening seeds, from 
which, or from layers, they are readily propagated. 
* 1. H. terra’prera L. The four-winged-frwted Halesia, or common 
Snowdrop Tree. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 636.3 Ellis in Phil. Trans., vol. 51, p.931. t. 22. f. A.; Don's Mill., 4. p.6. 
Synonymes. The Snowdrop Tree, Silver Bell Tree, Amer. 
Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 910.3 Bot. Cab., t. 1173. ; the plate in Arb. Brit., Ist edit., vol. vi. ; and 
our jigs. 1204, 1205. 
Spec. Char., §&c. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminated, sharply serrated. Pe- 
tioles glandular. Fruit with 4 wings. Leaves acuminated, with tlie middle 
depressed. Flowers pure white, 9—10 ina fascicle, 
drooping, resembling those of the snowdrop. The 
wood is hard and veined; the bark is of a darkish 
colour, with many irregular fissures. (Don’s 24ill.) _ 
A low deciduous tree. South Carolina, along the © 
banks of rivers. Height 15 ft. to 30 ft. Introduced 
in 1756. Flowers white; April and May. Fruit 
brown ; ripe in October, and remaining on great part 
of the winter. 
Its flowers, which resemble those of the snowdrop, 
are produced in great abundance. The tree is one of 
the hardiest, and, at the same time, one of the most 
ornamental of the American deciduous trees. The rate 
of growth, for the first five or six years, is 12 or 18 
inches, or more, a year; and in ten years it will attain 
the height of 12 or 15 feet, if properly treated ; but, as 
it is generally kept too dry, it is seldom seen at above 
half this height at that age. 4t ripens seeds freely in 
this country ; from which, or from imported seeds, it 
is readily increased. The seeds often remain above a year in the ground. 
1204. H. tetraptera. 
