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4D years planted, it is 35 ft. high ; in Rosenthal's Nursery, 20 years planted, and 30 ft. high ; at 

 Brttck on the Leytha, 40 years planted, and 42 ft. high. ' In Prussia, at Sans Souci, 30 years planted, 

 and 20 ft. high ; at the Pfauen Insel, 8 years planted, and 22 ft. high. In Bavaria, at Munich, 

 in the Botanic Garden, 20 years planted, and 20 ft. high. In Hanover, at Gottingen, in the University 

 Botanic Garden, 10 years planted, and 30 ft. high. In Cassel, at Wilhelmshohe, 60 ft. high. In 

 Sweden, at Lund, in the Botanic Garden, 2 years planted, and 4 ft. high. In Italy, at Monza, 29 

 years planted, and 60 ft. high. 



Commercial Statistics. Plants, in the London nurseries, are Is. 6d. each ; at 

 Boll wy Her, from 1 franc to 1 franc 50 cents ; at New York, ?. 



CHAP. XXXI. 



OF THE HARDY AND HALF-HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE 

 ORDER CORIA^CEjE. 



This order consists of only one genus, of which there is one species quite 

 hardy, and one or two others, natives of New Zealand and Nepal, which are 

 probably half-hardy. 



Genus I. 



CORIA v RlA Mss. The Coriaria. Lin. Syst. Dicecia Decandria. 



Identification. Niss. in Act. Par., 1711. t. 12. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 739. ; Don's Mill., 1. p. 818. 

 Synonymes. Redoul, Fr. ; Gerberstrauch, Ger. 



Derivation. From corium, a hide j C. rayrtifblia being used both in tanning leather and in dyeing 

 it black. 



Gen. Char., $c. Flowers either hermaphrodite, monoecious, or dioecious. 

 Calyx 5-parted. Petals 5, sepaloid, smaller than the lobes of the calyx. 

 Stamens 10, hypogynous, 5 between the lobes of the calyx and the angles of 

 the ovarium, 5 between the petals and the furrows of the ovarium. Anthers 

 bursting by longitudinal slits. Style none. Stigmas 5, long, awl-shaped. 

 Carpels 5, surrounding a fleshy axis ; when ripe, close together, but se- 

 parate, not opening, 1-seeded, surrounded with glandular lobes. Ovule and 

 seed pendulous. Albumen none. Embryo straight. — Branches square, op- 

 posite. Leaves opposite, simple, 3-ribbed. (Lindley, Introd. to N. S. y and 

 Key.) 



ilk 1. C .myrtifo'lia L. The Myrtle-leaved Coriaria. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 1467. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 739. ; Don's Mill., 1. p. 818. 



Synonymes. Fustet des Corroyeurs, or Redoul a Feuilles de Myrte, Fr. ; Myrtenblattriger Ger. 



berstrauch, Ger. 

 Engravings. Lam. 111., t. 822. ; Du. Ham., 1. t. 73. ; Wats. Dend. Brit, t. 103. ; and our fig. 160. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, 160 



three-nerved, on short foot-stalks, glabrous. 

 Flowers in rather upright racemes. {Dec. 

 Prod., i. p. 739.) A deciduous shrub, growing 

 to the height of from 4 ft. to 6 ft., in the south 

 of Europe and north of Africa, in hedges and 

 waste places. It was introduced into England 

 in 1629, and has since been frequent in col- 

 lections, flowering from May to August. In its 

 native country, it is said to be used for tan- 

 ning, and for dyeing black ; but whether it 

 is cultivated for this purpose, or merely 

 gathered where found wild, we have not been able to ascertain. In 

 Britain, it is cultivated as an ornamental undershrub, chiefly remarkable 

 for its myrtle-like leaves, and the handsome frond-like form of its branches. 



