1706 



A.RBORETUM AND l< KUT1CETUJM. 



PART II J 



Canada, of high mountains 

 in New York ami Penn- 

 sylvania, where it does not 

 grow above 2ft, or 3 ft, high, 

 and flowers in May and June. 

 Tim root is red, ami is used 

 for inlaying. It was intro- 

 duced in 1762; ami there 

 are plants at Messrs. Lod- 

 diges s. It appears but little 

 different from the preceding 

 sort, and both are probably ( 



both 

 onh Btunted varieties of 

 alba. 



B. 



at 5. B. na\na L. The dwarf Bireh. 



hhntificatiim. Lin. Sp. PI., 1394s ; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 465. ; Fl. Br., 1012. ; Eng. Fl., 4. p. 154. ; 



Hook. Scot, p. '-'74. ; Dicks. 11. Sire, Case. 8. lti. ; Khrh. Arb., 18. ; Gagneb. Act. Helvet, 1. 



p. 58. : Liiul. Wicksb., .">. ; Uavue Dend., p. 168. ; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 262. ; Lodd. Cat., 



t'd. . 

 Synottymet. B. nana Suec-bnim Bromel. CM. Goth., 11., Linn. Act. Suec, 1735, 15. ; B. No. 1629., 



Hull. Hist., 2. p. M). ; B. No. 259., Amm. Buth., 180. ; B. palustris ptimila, &c, Cels. Act. Suec, 



Emgranmgs. Am. Acad., 1. t. 1. ; Eng. Bot, t. 2326. ; Fl. Lapp., ed. 2., t. 6. f. 4. ; Lightf., t. 25. ; 

 Pall. Ross., 1. t. 40. f. D. G. ; Fl. Dan., t. 91. ; and our Jig. 1559. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves orbicular, crenate, reticulated with veins beneath. 

 (Eng. F/.,\\. p. 15+.) A bushy shrub, seldom exceeding 2 ft. or 3 ft. in 

 height ; with numerous branches, slightly downy when young, and beset with 

 numerous, little, round, firm, smooth, sharply crenated 

 leaves, beautifully reticulated with veins, especially 

 beneath ; and furnished with short footstalks, having 

 a pair of brown lanceolate stipules at their base. Cat- 

 kins erect, stalked, cylindrical, obtuse ; the barren ones 

 lateral, and the fertile ones terminal. Scales of the 

 latter 3-lobed, 3-flowered, permanent. Stigmas red. 

 ( Smith's Eng. Fl., vol. iv. p. 155.) A native of Lap- 

 land, Sweden, Russia, and Scotland, in Europe; and of 

 Hudson's Bay, and other parts of Canada, in America; 

 on mountains, but almost always in boggy places. Ac- 

 cording to Pallas, it is common in the whole of the 

 north of Russia and Siberia; but not on the moun- 

 tains of Altai or Caucasus. In wet situations, he says, 

 the shoots grow to the length of 6 ft. ; and, in a state of 

 cultivation, they grow as high as 9 ft., and assume an erect form. 

 is of singular use in the domestic economy of the inhabitants of Lapland. 

 Eta branches furnish them with their beds, and their chief fuel ; its leaves, 

 with a better yellow dye than that obtained from the common birch ; its 

 seeds afford nourishment to the ptarmigan, or white partridge (Y'etrao 

 Lagdpus I j.), which supplies a considerable; portion of their food, and also 

 forms an important, articie of commerce ; and, for their medicine, it produces 

 the fungUJ I'oKporus (omental ins Mich., respecting which some details will 

 be found under the head of Quercus, sect. A'obur, from which themoxa, or 

 amadou, is prepared, and which tin; Laplanders consider an efficacious 

 remedy in all painful diseases. Such is the wonderful power of adaptation 

 of man, in a country possessing few natural resources. li. nana has been 

 in cultivation in Britain lince the days of Miller, and is by no means un- 



equent in collections. Price of plants, in the London nurseries, is 2.v. 

 n ; and of ,< ed , '"/. per packet. At New York, plants are 25 cents each. 



Varii ' ■ 



. B, fi I hul" I. odd. Cat., ed. 1836, is Somewhat more erect in habit 

 than the- specie:. 'Mm re are plants at Messrs. Loddiges's. I'allasmen- 



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This shrub 



