702 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
dry rather than moist, and a warm situation. It is 
propagated by division of the root, by suckers, or by 
seeds, which are sometimes received from North America. 
£2, A.(s.) ToMENTO'sA Sims, The tomentose Birthwort. 
ficatzon. Sims in Bot. Mag., t. 1369.; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 
ie eel Bot. Mag., 1369.5 Bot. Cab., t. 641.; and our jig. 1574. 
Spec. Char., Se. Stem twining. Leaves cordate, downy 
beneath. Peduncle solitary, without a bractea. Co- 
rolla with its tube twisted back, and much more deeply 
divided than in A. sipho, expanding flat, and yellow, 
with the mouth of the tube of a deep purple. A 
twining deciduous shrub. North America. Height oy, 
10 ft. to 20 ft. Introd. 1799. Flowers as in A. sipho. 1374. A. tomentdsa, 
Orver LXIV. EUPHORBIACE. 
Orv. CHAR. Flowers unisexual. Perianth lobed or wanting, furnished inside 
with hypogynous glandular or scale-formed appendages. Stamens definite 
or indefinite, free or monadelphous. Ovarium superior, 2—3-celled. Styles 
equal in number to the cells. Stigmas many, distinct or combined. Capsule 
-of 2—8, or more, 2-valyed cells or cocci. Seeds solitary or in pairs, 
arillate, suspended. Albumen fleshy. (G. Don.) : . 
Leaves simple, alternate or opposite, stipulate or exstipulate, deciduous 
or evergreen; quite entire. Flowers solitary, aggregate, terminal, lateral, 
or axillary. — Shrubs or small trees, natives of Europe and North Ame- 
rica, which are thus contradistinguished : — 
STitLt/Nerd Garden. Flowers moneecious, in spikes. Style 1. Stigmas 3. 
Bu’xus Tourn. Flowers meneecious, in heaps. Styles 3. Stigmas 3. 
Genus I. 
STILLI’NG/A Garden. Tue Srivtinesa. Lin. Syst. Monce'cia 
Monadélphia. 
Identification. “ Stillingia was sent under that name to Linneus, by the celebrated Dr. Alexander 
Garden.” (Smith in Rees’s Cyclop.) Lin. Mant., 19.; Schreb. Lin. Gen., 658. 
Derivation. Named by Dr. Alexander Garden in honour of Mr. Benjamin Stillingfleet, author of 
a work entitled Miscellaneous Tracis relating to Natural History, &c., partly translated from the 
writings of Linnzus. 
Gen. Char. Flowers unisexual ; males in a spike, females at the base of the 
same spike ; ? dicecious. — Afale. Flowers seven together. Calyx like a 
corolla, of one piece, funnel-shaped, its margin jagged. Stamens 2—3, pro- 
minent; the filaments slightly connected at the base. — Female. Involucre 
1-flowered. Calyx superior, shaped as in the male. Style thread-shaped. 
Stigmas 3. Fruit aregma, surrounded at the base by the involucre a little 
enlarged, somewhat turbinate, 3-lobed. 
Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, deciduous ; entire. Flowers in spikes, 
terminal or lateral—Shrubs, deciduous, milky; natives of North America. 
«1. 8. zicu/strina Willd. The Privet-leaved Stillingia. 
. Identification. Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 588. ; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 608. 
Angraving. Our fig. 1375. from a specimen in Sir W. J. Hooker’s herbarium. 
Spec. Char. §c. Shrubby. Leaf consisting of a petiole, anda disk that is 
