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AKHOULTTM AND FKUTJCETUM. 



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i , iai Statistics* Price of plants, in the London nurseries, Is. lid. 



each, and seeds 6s. a quart ; at Bollwyller, 2 francs ; and at New York, 



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■ 7.L. (/>'.) DloSPY^Rl s Per*. The Diospyrus-Me Laurel, or Bay. 



Uum. Tors. Syn . l. p. 450. ; Bot Mag., t. 1470. ; where Dr. Sims states that Persoon's epi- 

 thet, D&osp^rua, is an abbreviation of Bfichaux's oneofefiospyrfiides. 



Synotit/mes. 1.. EUOSVUUS Dtospyrus Afetf. GYw., 1. p. 259. ; L. (fiospyrrjldes M/e/i.r. l'l. l>or. A)>ie>\, 



' i p. 243. ; :-' /.. mdissefblia Wait. Fl Cur., 134 Dr. Sims {Bot. Mag., 1. 1470.) states that he has 

 not much doubt that the J. mettssaefolia Waiter is ideotical with tins species ; and he adds that 

 Mr. Fraaer, who was the friend of Walter, and editor of bis work, always considered it as such, 

 and lias remarked that " the leaves are not at all like those of the balm ; but it was, probably, the 

 ■cent, not the form, that suggested the appellation." 



OlgS Bot Mag., t. 1470. ; and ouryjV H7>j. 



Spec. Char., Sc. Habit low, snrcnlose, twiggy. Leaves oblong-oval and 

 entire, the under side veiny and pubescent, deciduous. Flower buds and 

 pedicels villous. Sexes dioecious. Fruit large. (Null. Gen., i. p. 259.) A 

 running twiggy shrub, 2 ft. or 3 it. high, in its 

 native swamps, in Virginia and Carolina; intro- 

 duced in 1810. Leaves opaque, oblong-oval, at- 

 tenuated towards the base, entire, the under side 

 veiny and pubescent, deciduous. Scales of the 

 buds purple, villous. Younger branches villous. 

 Sexes dioecious. Flower buds and pedicels villous. 

 Flowers disposed in sessile umbeled groups, 3 — 5 

 in a group. Perfect stamens 9. Gland-like bodies 

 large, orange yellow. Fruit larger than that of 

 L. Benzoin, oblong-ovate, scarlet, upon thick and 

 distinct pedicels Cotyledons large, thick, oily, 

 attached by near their base to the remainder of the 

 embryo. (Null. Gen., i. p. 259.) It is what may be 

 deemed the male sex that is represented in Bot. 

 Mag., t. 1470., and our Jig. 1172. ; and in the text of the Bot. Mag. is the 

 following interesting information by Dr. Sims, on the structure of its 

 flowers. There were 9 perfect stamens, and an imperfect ovary; and 6 

 glands on short pedicels, resembling so many little yellow mushrooms, with 

 a warty pileus : the anthers had 2 cells each. (Bot. Mag.) L.Vseudo- Ben- 

 zoin Michx. is supposed by Dr. Sims (Bot. Mag., t. 1471.) to be either 

 identical with, or a slight variation from, this species. The only plant 

 which we have seen bearing the name of L. /Jiospyrus is at White Knights, 

 where it so closely resembles L. Benzoin, as to leave no doubt in our 

 mind that Dr. Silas's conjecture was right. 



« 8. L. (B.) ;i;stiva v lis L. The summer Laurel, or Willow-leaved Bay. 



I.l.uttjication. Lin. S|)., 629. ; Syst., 384. ; Mart. Mill., No. "4. ; Willd. Si). I'l., 2. p 485. 

 Synonym 1. < Dei \ la Mill. Diet., No. 8. ; L. Euosmus GMtivklis Null. Gen., 1. p. '2.09. ; Pond bush, 

 .////./■ ; S./.'i.incr I.orlicer, Cer. 



i 4 < ateab. Car., i. t. 2H. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves oblong-acuminate, entire, glabrous, veiny, deci- 

 duou-,. Flowers in umbels. Sexes polygamous. ( Null. Gen., i. p. 259.) 

 Dr. Sims ha* noted, incidentally, in the Bot. Mag,. t. 1470., that there 

 are two different specimens of the /v. aestivalis in the Banksian herbarium; 

 that one of them, the flowering specimen from Jacquin's herbarium, is 

 evidently I specimen of the L.genjculata Bot- Mag.,t. 1471.; and that the 



Other, iu the leave-,, is similar to the //. /Jiospyrus Bot, Mag., % f 1470. 



Farther, \)\. Sims ba noted, t. 1471*, that it is not easy to say to which 

 specie L« n tivalis really belongs, and that if Linnaeus had meant the cha- 

 cacter of supra-axillary branches to describe that the buds are produced 



belov. the branches, and not in the axils of them, it is as applicable to the 

 allied L. J)\<>-,\> i ins and I,, geiiicubifa.. (Bot. Mag., t. 1470.) A shrub, 



.lit. oft. or oh, high, ;i oative of Virginia, in the swamps which inter* 

 • the pine barrens. Introduced in 1775. There was a. plant in the 

 Horticultural v ' Garden ome years ago, which is since dead. 



