ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
1520, A. cordifolia. 
A large and very handsome round-headed tree, with broad, deep green, 
shining leaves, deeply heart-shaped at the base. It grows with rapidity in dry 
soil, and is one of the most interesting ornamental trees that have of late years 
been introduced. It is a most distinct species ; and, though a native of the 
kingdom of Naples, it is perfectly hardy. It ripens seeds in the climate of 
London, and might easily be rendered as common as 4, glutinésa. 
2% 7. A.vi’ripis Dec. The green-leaved Alder. 
Identification. DeCandolle Pl. FL, 3. p. 304. 
Synonymes. A. ovata Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1141.3; A’lnus fruticdsa Schmidt; Bétula ovata Schrank 
Sal. No. 159. ; B. A\no-Bétule Ehrh. Beytr. 2. p. 72. ; B. viridis Hort. 
Engravings. Dend. Brit. t.96.; Bot. Cab., t.1141.; Schmidt Céstr. Baum., 3. t. 189.; and our sig. 
1521., in which a is the ament, or male catkin ; b, the male flower magnified; c, the stamen mag- 
nified ; d, a longitudinal section of the cone or female catkin; e and g, transverse sections of the 
cone, to show the position of the scales; f, the female catkins ; #, the samara, or seed, with its 
wings. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves ovate, 
doubly serrated, glabrous. Pe- 
duncles of the female catkins 
branched. Scales of the stro- 
biles having equal lobes, trun- 
cate-nerved. (Willd.) A large 
deciduous shrub, or low bushy 
tree. Hungary, Styria, and 
Carinthia, on high mountains ; 
and Germany, in the neigh- 
bourhood of Saltzburg. Height 
5 ft. to 6 ft. Introduced in 
1820. Flowers greenish brown ; 
March and April. Fruit brown ; 
ripe in August, 
This plant is considered by 
many botanists as intermediate 
between the alders and the birches. 
It agrees with the alders, in hav- 
ing the peduncles of the female 1521. A, viridis. 
catkins ramose; and in general 
appearance it resembles the A’lnus incdna in a young state: but it belongs 
to the birches, by the parts of its fructification, and by the somewhat greater 
sumber of its stamens. 
