LXXX. LILIA‘CEZ: RU’SCUS. 1099 
Orver LXXX. ZILIA‘CE/. 
OrD. CHAR. Perianth regular, 6-parted. Stamens 6, opposite the segments, 
and inserted in their bases. Ovarium free. Style 1. Capsule 3-celled, 3- 
valved, with a loculicidal dehiscence. Seeds many, generally flat, packed 
one above another, in one or two ranks ; testa spongy or dilated. Albumen 
fleshy. Embryo straight, having the radicle next the hilum. (G. Don.) 
Leaves simple, alternate or opposite, stipulate or exstipulate, deciduous 
or evergreen; with parallel veins. Fv/owers mostly white. — Shrubs mostly 
evergreen ; natives of Europe, Asia, and America. 
In British gardens, the only genera which contain hardy ligneous plants 
are two; which are thus contradistinguished : — 
Ru'scus. Flowers dicecious. Stamens 5, monadelphous: Style 1. Cells 
of berry 2-seeded. (G. Don.) 
Yucca. Perianth campanulate. Stamens thickest at top. Stigma sessile. 
Capsule trigonal. Seeds flat. (G@. Don.) 
In our first edition the shrubby species of Asparagus are included, but they 
are here omitted as not being perfectly hardy. 
Genus I. 
LILIA, 
RU/SCUS L. Tue Burcuer’s Broom. Lin. Syst. Dice'cia Tridndria. 
Identification. Lin. Gen., 534.; Juss., 42.; Fl. Br., 1073.; Tourn., t.15.; Lam., t. 815.; Gertn., 
t. 16. 
Synonymes. Fragon, Fr.; Mausedorn, Ger. ; Rusco, Ital. 
‘Derivation. It is said to have been anciently called Bruscus, from bewr, box, and kelem, holly 
(Celtic), box holly; or from burus, box. Some suppose it to be derived from russus, flesh- 
coloured ; alluding to the colour of the fruit. The word ruscus was, however, applied to any 
prickly plant by the ancient Romans, as ruscus sylvestris, the holly, &c. 
Gen. Char. Perianth 6-parted. Stamens 6, monadelphous, antheriferous in 
the male flowers, but naked in the female ones. Style 1. Berry globose, 
3-celled ; cells 2-seeded. (G. Don.) . 
Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, evergreen ; alike green on both 
surfaces. Flowers rising from the midribs of the leaves; always diccious, 
except in R. racemdésus. — Low evergreen shrubs, natives of Europe and 
Africa, 
Though, in a practical point of view, the species in British gardens are 
treated as evergreen shrubs, yet, in a strict sense, they are biennial plants, 
like the raspberry and the bramble. They all thrive in sandy soil, and are 
readily increased by division of the root. 
2 1. R.acuuea tus L. The prickly, or common, Butcher’s Broom. 
‘acation. Lin. Sp. Pl., 1474. ; Eng. Bot., t. 560.; Eng. Fl. 4. p. 235.; Hook. Br. Fl, p. 431. 
aoe a atriolins aculeatus Tourn. Inst. ; Box “Holly, Knee Holly, wild Myrtle, prickly 
Pettigree ; Houx Frelon, petit Houx Buis piquant, Fragon épineux, Fragon piquant, Fr.; Stech- 
ender Mausedorn, Ger.; Rusco, Jtal. 
Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 560. ; and our Jig. 2060. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves ovate, sharp-pointed, flowering on the upper side, 
without a leaflet. (Smith.) An evergreen suffrutescent plant. Britain. 
Height 1 ft. to 3ft. Flowers greenish white; March and April. Berries 
scarlet ; ripe in the beginning of winter; very ornamental. 
Varieties. . ere 
2 R. a. 2 rotundifolius Barrel. Ic. 517., Mart. Mill. 2. vulgaris félio 
ampliore Dill. Elth. 333, 334. t. 251. f, 324,— Leaves somewhat 
larger and rounder than those of the species. 
e R.a. 3 léeus Smith. R. laxus Lodd. Cat. ed. 1836. — Leaves elliptic, 
