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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART 111. 



distinctly striated. The wood is extremely light and soft ; and as, ill the arrangement of its fibres, it 

 r e se m ble* Other species o( the same genus, it is employed tor making bowls and trays. The roots, 

 also, are tender nul light, and they are used by fishermen to buoy up their nets with, instead of 

 COlk. (JML) This species is described in Martyn's Miller as the Virginian water tupelo tree, 

 rising, with a strong upright trunk, to the height of 80 ft. or 1(H) ft., and dividing into many 

 branches towards the top. The drupes. Professor Martvn adds. M are nearly the size and shape of 

 small olives, and are preserved as that fruit is, by the French inhabitants of the Mississippi, where 

 this species of 'Sfssa greatly abounds, and is called the olive tree. The timber is white and soft 

 when unseasoned, but light and compact when dry ; which renders it very proper for bowls, &c." 

 ll sometimes varies, in having the leaves quite glabrous, and less deeply toothed. 



Genus II. 



1 & i 

 <^Y V R1S L. The Osyris, or Poet's Casia. Lin. Si/st. DioeYia Triandria. 



Identification. Lin. Gen. PL ; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 715. 

 Si/noni/nic. Casia Co me t ' . , l.ob., A/pin., Gcsn. 



Diiin'uion. The Osuris of Pliny and Dioscorides is so named from oxos, a branch ; from the length 

 and pliability of the branches. 



• 1.0. a'lija L. The white-flowered Osyris, or Poet's Casia. 



Identification. Lin. Sp. PL, 1450. ; Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 715. ; Roy. Lugdb., 202. ; 

 Sauv. Monsp., 56. ; Gouan Monsp., 502. ; Gron. Orient., 308. ; Mill. Diet., No. 

 1. ; Scop. Cam., No. 1215. 



Si/rumynns. (). fdliis linearibus acutis Locfi. It., 169. ; O. frutescens baceffera 

 Uuu/i. Pin., 212. ; Casia poetica Monspeliensium Cam. Epit., 26., Lob. 7c, 

 432. ; Casia Latinorum Alp. Exot., 41. ; Casia Monspelii dicta Gesn. Epit., 50. ; 

 weisse Osvris, Ger 



Engravings' Lam. 111., t. 802. ; T. Nees ab Esenbeck Gen. Plant. Fl. Ger. Ic. et 

 des lllust., t 20. ; and our fig. 1202. 



ty.r. Char., %c. A shrub 3— 4 ft. high. Stem roundish, striated. Leaves alter- 

 nate, linear-lanceolate, 1 in. long, entire, glabrous. Flowers upon the branch- 

 lefts. peduncled. Drupe red, of the size of a pea. (Willd.) A native of Italy, 

 Spain, Montpelicr, Libanus, and Carniola. Introduced in 1793, and cultivated 

 by Miller ; but we have not seen the plant. The long supple branches of this 

 tree were formerly used for brushes, and they are still used in making crates, 

 or packing-cases in the south of Europe. It .is celebrated by Keats for the 

 whiteness of its flowers :— 



A dimpled hand, 



Fair as some wonder out of Fairy-land, 



Hung from his shoulder: like the drooping flowers 



Of whitest casia. fresh from summer showers." 



Poems, p. 24. 



CHAP. XCVII. 



OF THE HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER £L7EAGNA V CE-TC. 



They arc included in three genera, Ji'laiagnus Tojirn., JF/ippophae L. } and 

 Shepherds jVittt.; and these have the following characters: — 



Elma'gHUS Town. Flowers, some bisexual; some, in result, male only; 

 both kinds upon one plant. — Bisexual flower. Calyx resembling, internally, 

 a corolla ; tubular below, bell-shaped above, with a slightly spreading, lobed, 

 dc< idnouf limb ; the lobes mostly 4; the tubular part includes, but is not 

 connate with, the ovary and part of the style, and bears at its mouth a 

 conical crown, through which the style passes. Style long. Stigma clavate 

 or coiled. Stanu -ns arising from the bottom of the bell-shaped part, 

 ihorter than it, alternate with its lobes, the filaments adnate to it, except at 

 their tip. Ovary oblong. Ovule I. Fruit consisting of an achenium, and 

 of the tubular part of tbc calyx rendered fleshy, and including the achenium. 

 Seed erect. Kmbryo erect. — Male flower, (,'alyx resembling, internally, 



a corolla, bell-ahaped; it has a limb of 4 — 6 — 8 lobes. Stamens of the 

 number of the lobei j otherwise 08 in the bisexual flower, A conical crown 



