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AKHORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART II 



• s. ('. i ivic.vVv Willd. The glabrous-fcotwd Celtis, or Nettle 'Tree. 



Identification. Willd. Kinun. Suppl., p. 68. J Willd. Hauniz., p. 81. j Ku'in. et Schult. Syst Veg., 

 & \\ 306. 



Sfrnoawwa. Sprengel baa suggested, In the Index to his Syst. Veg., that glabrata is the epithet fitter 

 tor This species than levigate: gtabritia Bignifies rendered, or become, bald; laevigata, rendered 

 perfectly even in surface. 



Sjaac Cfiar.,Sc. Leaves orataJanceolate, Bubcordate at the base, nearly entire j glabrous on the 

 upper surface : roughish upon the veins on the under one {Willd. Ewum. Suppl.) In Reem. et 

 Schult Syst. Veg., a somewhat different specific character is quoted from Willd. Wild. liaumz., 

 I>. si., the following: — Leaves ovate, acuminate, subcordate at the base, unequal there, nearly 

 entire, glabrous on both surfaces. Additionally to the specific- character, it is stated as follows : — 

 It is ■ large tree. Its leaves have 1—8 teeth at the tip. It is a native of Louisiana. To this kind 

 seems to belong that (Yltis named C. aincricana, or Micocouliei de la Louisiane, cultivated in the 

 Tans Garden, which Poiret, in l-'ncycl. SuppL, ;>. p. 668., No. 10., has noticed to have its leaves 

 membranous, rough on botli surfaces, yet nearly glabrous ; with the base with one side shorter 

 than the other, and narrower, and some leaves almost falcate. 



a 9. C. PU V MILA Ph. The dwarf Celtis, or Nettle Tree. 



Identification. Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 200. ; Rcem. et Schult. Syst. Veg., 6. p. 307. 



Spec. Char., At. A small straggling bush. Leaves ovate, acuminate, serrate with equal teeth; 

 unequal at the base ; downy while young, afterwards nearly glabrous on both surfaces. Flowers 

 j upon a peduncle Fruit solitary, ovate, black. Indigenous to the banks of rivers in Maryland 

 anil Virginia, where it flowers in May. Pursh has seen the kind alive. {Pursh Ft. A. S.) The 

 plant was introduced by Lyon in 1812 ; and the name is in Loddiges's Catalogue, ed. 1836; but we 

 have not seen the plant there or elsewhere. 



App. i. Species of Celtis half-hardy, or not yet introduced. 



C. orientalis Lin., R. Mai , 4. t. 40., and our fig. 1255., is 

 a native of the Himalayas, introduced in 1820. In foliage it 

 resembles C. occidentalis ; but we have only seen a very 

 small plant of it, against a wall, in the Horticultural So- 

 t iet> '.- Garden. In p. 174., five Himalayan species are 

 enumerated as likely to prove hardy or half-hardy ; but 

 none of them are yet introduced. In the Hortus Britan- 

 nieus three species are enumerated as indigenous to Ja- 

 maica, and as, in Britain, requiring the stove ; but, as C. 

 orientalis is also designated as a stove tree in catalogues, 

 it is possible that the Jamaica species may be equally 

 hardy. In the Himalayas, Koyle observes, the genus 

 Celtis occurs at considerable elevations, and as far north 

 as Cashmere. C. orientalis Wall., which we suppose to 

 t>e identical with C. orientalis /,?'«., "and species allied to 

 it, occur in the hottest places; C tetrandra lloxb. extends 

 along the foot of the mountains as far as Cashmere." C. 

 alpina ltoyle was found by Mr. Royle on Urrutka, nearly 

 at the greatest elevation, and if it were introduced would, 

 doubtless, be hardy in the climate of London. C. Ingldsu 

 Ko\ le occurs in Kunawur ; and is, doubtless, equally hardy 

 with C. alpina As the seeds of Celtis go in little bulk, 

 and retain their vital energies for at least a year, there 

 will be little difficulty, wc think, in getting these species 

 introduced into Britain. 



CHAP. CII. 



01 IHH HARDY LIGNEOUS PI. A NTS OF THE ORDER JUGLANDA CEiE. 



'I'm. bardy Ligneous plants of this order arc included in the genera named 

 and characterised as under: — 



/i OLAICI L. Flowers unisexual ; those of both sexes upon one plant. — 

 .Male. Flowers' in CJ lindrical, drooping, solitary catkins ; many in a catkin : 

 the catkins developed from buds borne by shoots produced previously to 

 the year in which the catkins appear. Calyx of 5 — o* scales, that are 

 attac hed to B bractea at B distance from its base and tip. (Is the flower 

 •talked, and connate v\ith the bractea?) Stamens 18 — 36. — Female. Flowers 

 solitary, or a few in a group, terminal upon a shoot developed in the same 

 '. Calyx OVBte, including and adhering to the ovary, except in the 

 >othed tip. Petals I, imall, inserted into the Tree part of the calyx. 



' ) .. > of one cell, and one < n < I ovule. Stigmas 2 — 3, fleshy, scaly with 



