1*96 



ARBORETUM AND FRUT1CETUM. 



•ART in 



i- candMM I.'Herit. In Lin. Trans.. I. p. 180., WUld. Np. PI., 2. p. 987. ; and ('. Pdnderi L'Htrit. ; 

 are des crib ed by botanists, ami registered In Sweet's Hortus Brit ami has as introduced j but we are 

 Mil aware Of their being In the country. 



A pp. I. Half-hard ij Species of Volygonac 



BHmafcaia cirrhbsa Gsertn. Fruct., 1. t 4o. f. 2,, i* a tendriled climber, a 



native oX' Carolina, With alternate, cordate, acuminate leaves, and flowers 

 in panicleii racemes. It was introduced in 17S7, and is occasionally met with 

 in olil collections ; for example, in the Cambridge Botanic Garden. 



Riiwex I.iint'.ria L. Pink. Aim , 252, 253., is a native of the Canaries, with 

 roundish glaucous leaves, which has been occasionally found in green-houses, 

 since the days of Parkinson. It grows to the height of 5 ft. or 6ft in the 

 Cambridge Botanic Garden ; and produces its greenish flowers in June and 

 July. There are two other African suffrutieose species recorded in our Hor- 

 tus Britannicus ; and there is a plant in the Horticultural Society's Garden, 

 from Moldavia, which lias twining stems, and of which a portion is repre- 

 sented in Jig. llf>7. It grows against a wall with an east aspect, and, though 

 frequently killed down during winter, never fails to spring up vigorously the 

 following spring. 



PflMgonaNM ddpressuw R. Br., Bot Mag., t, 3145., the Macquarrie Harbour 

 vine, is a native of Van Diemen's Land, principally on the sea shore, about 

 Macquarrie Harbour. It is an evergreen climber or trailer, growing to 

 the height of b*0 ft, ; flowering from May to August ; and ripening its fruit 

 in December and January. The flowers are axillary, and are succeeded by 

 racemes of fruit, which, at first sight, resemble grapes. "The seed of all 

 the polygonums, which is a small hard nut, is known to be wholesome, 

 (buck-wheat, for example) ; but in P. adpressum the seed is invested with 

 the enlarged and fleshy segments of the calyx, which gives to each fruit the 

 appearance of a berry : some acidity in this fruit renders it available for 

 tarts." (But. Mae., April, 1832; see also Gard. Mas., vol. viii. p. 347., and 

 vol. xi. p. 341} This plant was introduced in 1822; and, though considered 

 as requiring the green-house, yet we have little doubt it would live against 

 a conservative wall, or as a trailer on dry rockwork, in peat soil, in a warm 

 situation. The extraordinary rapidity of its growth might perhaps recom- 

 mend it for the same purposes as the cobcea, and other rapid-growing 

 climbers. 



eee. 



CHAP. XCIII. 



OF THE HARDY AND HALF-HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER 



ZAURACEiE. 



This order is distinguished from all others by the following short charac- 

 teristics : — Anthers opening by valves which curve upwards ; carpels solitary 

 and superior; and ovules pendulous. (Lindl. Nat. Syst. of Bot.) The only 

 other order treated of in our work, in which there is an analogous mode of 

 opening in the anthers, is Berber dcecB. The species are chiefly trees, some of 

 them shrubs, natives of Asia and North America, and one of them of the 

 south of Europe. 



Genus I. 



i m 



$ 



LAU11US /'/in. The Laurel, or Hay, Tree. Lin. Syst. Enneandria 



Monogynia. 

 iiiriitijf utton. Pliny, on the authority ot ('. a. Nccs von Esenbeck In Lindl. Nat. Syst. of Bot., 



p. OS ; Lin. Gen.. No. . r A;., In part ■ and so of most other botanical authors. 

 '////,// V""J». Saxtajras and lUnxmn, (' ■ ('• Von K,eribcrk ; Daphne, Greek. 

 Derivation I TOmtatl , praUej in reference to the aricicnt. custom of crowning the Roman con- 



ron with laurel in their triumphal processions, There appears some doubt of the /.aurus 



DObil In ing tbeLauruaoi the Romans, and the Daphne 1 of tbe Greeks. (See Daphne.) As, however, 



rig certain It known of the lubject, we hare followed the popular belief: and, In the history 



v km ',/ the LaorUS nobilia, we have treated it as if identical with the Daphne of the Greeks. 



<,,,,. (hm , <)/■. Sr.rrr. polygamouf, or duecious. Calyx with 6 sepals. Stamens 9 ; 

 atelior, 3 interior, and each of them having a pair of gland-like bodies 



