CHAP. LXIV 



JJUBIA CE/E. CEPHALA'NTHUS. 



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CHAP. LXIV. 



OF THE HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER flUBIA^CEJE. 



Tins order includes a great number of genera; but there is only one of these 

 that contains any ligneous species truly hardy in British gardens. 



Genus I, 



JL 



CEPHALA'NTHUS L. 



The Button-wood 

 Monogynia. 



Identification. Lin. Gen., No. 113.; Ga?rtn. Fruct, 2. t. 86. ; Lam. 111., t 



Don's Mill., 3. 

 in allusion to 



Lin. Syst. Tetrandria 



p. 402. ; Rich. Diss., with a fig. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 538. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 610. 



the flowers being disposed in 



Juss. Mem. Mus., 6. 

 . Lodd. Cat, ed. 1836. 

 Derivation. From kephale, a head, and anthos, a flower : 

 globular heads. 



Gen. Char., fyc. Calyx with an obversely pyramidal tube, and an angular 

 5-toothed limb. Corolla with a slender tube, and a 4-cleft limb; lobes 

 erectish. Stame?is 4, short, inserted in the upper part of the tube, hardly 

 exserted. Style much exserted. Stigma capitate. Fruit inversely pyra- 

 midal, crowned by the limb of the calyx, 2 — 4-? celled, and separating into 

 2 — 4 parts ; cells, or parts, 1 -seeded, indehiscent, and sometimes empty by 

 abortion. Seeds oblong, terminating in a little callous bladder. Albumen 

 somewhat cartilaginous. Embryo inverted in the albumen, with a superior 

 radicle. (Don's Mill., iii. p. 610.) — Shrubs, with terete branches. Leaves 

 opposite, or 3 in a whorl. 



3fc 1. C. Occident a v lis L. The Western Button-wood. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 138. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 538. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 610. ; Lod. Cat., ed. 1836. 

 Sijnonymcs. C. oppositifolius Mcench Mcth., p. 487. ; Swamp Globe Flower, Amer. 

 Engravings. Du Ham. Arb., 1. 1. 54. ; Schkuhr Handb., t. 21., and t. 5. b. fruit. ; Lois. Herb. Amat, 

 t. 272. ; Pluk. Aim., 336. t. 77. f. 4. ; and our figs. 828, 829. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves opposite, or 3 

 in a whorl, ovate or oval, acumi- 

 nated. Peduncles much longer than 

 the heads, usually by threes at the 

 tops of the branches. Petioles red- 

 dish next the branches. Heads of 

 828 



829 



flowers globular, size of a marble. Flowers whitish yellow. There are varieties 

 of this species having the branchlets and young leaves either glabrous or 

 downy. (Don's Mill, iii. p. 610.) A shrub, growing to the height of from 

 6 ft. to 8 ft. ; a native of North America, from Canada to Florida, in marshy 

 places. It was introduced in 1735, and flowers in July and August. It will 

 grow in common garden soil, but prefers peat kept moist ; and is propagated 

 chiefly by seeds, but will also grow by cuttings and lavers. It is an inter - 



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