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ARBORETUM AND FRUT1CETUM. 



PAirr in. 



1214 



App. i. IlalJ-hanh/ Species ofVjtphorbxn. 



• l . is .\ native ctf Italy, Crete, and of the island of 

 tfierea, near Toulon, where it forma a small branched shrub, about 

 4 ft. high. S. Charaetas and S, dendrbldes, according to Dr. Philippi, 

 crow In tho streams of decayed lava on Etna. /.'. dendroides, he adds, 

 "" is one of the finest shrubs in Sicily, and rises to ■ height of about 

 o tt , the stem forking soon above the ground, and each branch di- 

 vided again, so that the form o( the whole is perfectly semiglobular. 

 Inaummerit Is quite bare of foliage, when the numerous, smooth, 

 vevticiUate branches give the plant a most singular appearance; but 

 with the rains of autumn tho numerous linear leaves begin to sprout 



forth at the end of the boughs, and a corymb oi' yellow flowers tips 

 the extremity of each in February." [Comp. to the Rot. Mag., LSI.) 



Ek tiu-iiifciii Ait., Hot. Mag., t. 1905., and uur,//ij. l'ju., is a handsome 

 ft e a - gium pg shrub, « native of Madeira A plant stood out in the 



Trinity College Botanic Garden, at Dublin, from 1821 to 1881, form- 

 ing a bush about 4| ft. high, and ."> ft. in diameter. Sewering all the 

 winter. It was cut down by the severe frost of the spring of 1831, 

 but sprang up again ; and it is now (Sept 1836), Mr. Maekay informs 

 us, nearly ."> ft. in height, and 5ft in diameter. E. Chaiacias, in the 

 same garden, rarely exceeds 2J ft. in height 



Utht-r species, natives of the Levant, the Canaries, Portugal, and 

 North and South America, may possibly be found as hardy as K. mel- 

 bfera. In the Yucs Pkytostotiques of Webb and BeYtholet's Histoire 

 KmtmieMt del lies Ga wHto , the /■'. canarilfisis and K. piscatbria are 

 represented in pi 2. as the prevailing species ; the latter forming 

 handsome trees, fromlUft. to 15 ft. high, with straight, erect stems 



Genus II. 



LiL 



STILLFNG/^ Garden. The Stillingia. Lin. Sj/.st. Monce'cin 

 Monadelphia. 



Identification. " Stillingia was sent under that name to Linnreus by the celebrated Dr. Alexander 



Garden." (Smith in Ilees's Ci/clop.) Lin. Mant, 19. j Schreb. Lin. Gen., 6Tj8. ; Smith in lioes's 



Cyclop. ; Mart. Mill. Diet. 

 Drriviitum. Named by Dr. Alexander Garden in honour of Mr. Benjamin Stillingfleet, author of 



a work entitled Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Natural History, &c, partly translated from the 



writings of Linnanis. 



Description, $c. The only hardy species is a deciduous shrub; a native of 

 North America. 



■ 1. S. ligu'strina Willd. The Privet-leaved Stillingia. 



Hrntiaration. Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 588. ; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 608. 



Spec. Char., Src. Shrubby. Leaf consistin 



of a petiole and a disk that is 

 oval-lanceolate, pointed at both ends, and entire. Male flowers upon very- 

 short pedicels. (Michx. FL Bor. Amer., ii. p. 213.) Nuttall has questioned 

 whether the sexes arc not dioecious, and has noted the female flowers as 

 " not seen," but the male ones as being disposed in spikes, part lateral, part 

 terminal, and as having a 3-cleft, rather flat, calyx, and 3 stamens that have 

 kidney-shaped anthers; and the bracteas as 1-2-glanded and 1-flowered. 

 (Xutt. Gen. Amer.) A deciduous shrub, growing about 4ft. high; a native 

 of North America, in shady woods, in Carolina and Georgia; flowering in 

 June and July. It was Introduced in 1812, and plants were in the collection 

 ..• Meters. Loddige.s in 1830. From these gentlemen we received a plant 

 in that year, but it is since dead; as is also a plant of this species in the 

 Hafknej arboretum; we are not aware that the species is now in exist- 

 ence, in a living state, in England. 



Genus III. 



FU'XUS Tourn. 



'. p 'i loi 1. 1 



r. . / / Buxhaum, Bui h«b i •■ G i 



I'm. Box Tree. lAn, Syst. MonceVia Tetrandria. 



Smith Ellf. Mora, I. p. \-';'. j TfaCOdoi Nee. 



