634 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
Synonymes. P. tlicifdlia Willd. Enum. 1. Bi 13.3; P. latifolia 8 spindsa Welld. Sp. \. p. 43.5 P 
latifolia longifolia Link Jahrb. \, p. 64.3 Phillfreai. Clus. Hest. p. 5). | x 
Engravings. Pluk. Phyt., t. 310. f. 4.; and our fig. 1234., from a specimen in the British Museum. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves ovate-oblong, rounded at the base, acute, sharply 
and cuspidately serrated, glabrous, flat, veiny. (Don’s Mill.) An evergreen 
shrub. South of Europe. Height 10 ft. to 20 ft. Introduced in 1597. 
Flowers greenish white ; May and June. 
Genus III. 
CHIONA/’NTHUS L. Tut Snow-Fiower, or Frince Tree. Lin, Syst. 
Diandria Monogynia. 
Identification. lin. Gen., No. 21.; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 50. 
Synonymes. Chionanthe, Fr.; Schneeblume, Ger. 
Derivation. From chion, snow, and anthos, a flower ; in reference to the snow-white flowers of the 
species. 
Gen. Char., &c. Caly small, 4-parted, or 4-toothed. Corolla with a short 
tube and a 4-parted limb ; segments of the limb long and iinear. Style hardly 
any. Stigma 2elobed. Anthers almost sessile. Drupe baccate, containing 
a striated nut. Seeds albuminous. (Don’s Mill.) 
Leaves simple, exstipulate, deciduous; opposite, entire. 2/owers in ra- 
cemes, simple or compound, terminal or axillary, snow-white.—Trees or low 
shrubs, natives of North America. 
This genus differs from Olea, principally in the figure of the segments of 
the corolla, and in its leaves being deciduous. The only hardy species is a shrub 
or low tree, a native of North America. 
& ¥1.C. virer’nica L. The Virginian Snow-Flower, or Fringe Tree. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., p. 11.; Pursh Sept., 1. p. 7.; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 50. 
Synonymes. Snowdrop Tree, Amer.; Arbre de Neige, Fv.: Schnceblume. Ger. 
Engravings. Bot. Cab., t. 1204. ; the portrait of a plant in the arboretum of Messrs. Loddiges, to a 
scale of lin. to 4 ft.; in Arb. Brit., Ist edit., p. 1206. ; and our jig. 1235. 
Spec. Char., §c. Racemes terminal. Pe- 
duncles 3-flowered. Flowers pedicellate. 
Leaves lanceolate, glabrous, resembling 
those of a deciduous magnolia. Drupe 
purplish. (Don’s Mill.) A large deciduous 
shrub or low tree. Pennsylvania and 
Carolina, in boggy woods. Height 10 ft. 
to 30 ft. Introduced in 1796, Flowers 
white; May to July. 
Varieties. 
2 ¥ C. v. 2 latifolia Catesb. Car. t. 69., 
Kern, Abbild. t. 607. C.v. montana 
Pursh Sept. 1. p. 8.— Has the 
leaves oval-lanceolate, coriaceous, 1235. C. virginica. 
glabrous ; panicles dense; drupes 
oval. Carolina. Introduced in 1736. 
us ¥ C. v. 3 angustifolia Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. vol. i. p. 23. C. trifida 
Manch.— as the leaves lanceolate and glabrous. Horticultural 
Sdciety’s Garden. 
& ¥C.v. 4 maritima Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept. i. p. 8. C. maritima Lodd. 
Cat. ed. 1836.— A native of North America, in boggy woods by the 
sea side; having the leaves obovate-lanceolate, membranous, and 
pubescent ; the panicles very loose ; and the drupes elliptic, 
