CHAP. LXXII. 



HALES/yf CEJE. HALE V S7./. 



1189 



from 6—10. (Don's Mill.,\\. p. 4.) A shrub, from 

 3 ft. to 4 ft. high ; a native of South Carolina and Vir- 

 ginia, in swamps. It is stated to have been introduced 

 in 1765, and it flowers in July and August. It bears 

 a close general resemblance to S. officinale, but is 

 smaller in all its parts. Whether a species or a variety 

 is a matter of the less consequence in a gardening 

 point of view ; as few plants of the woody kind better 

 deserve a place against a wall, on account of the beauty 

 of its white blossoms, which resemble those of the jas- 

 mine, and are produced in the greatest abundance, on 

 almost every part of the plant. In fine seasons, these 

 are succeeded by fruit about the size of a red currant, 

 or of the fruit of the nettle tree. Price, in the London 

 nurseries, 2s. each ; and at New York, 50 cents. 



S£ 4. S. pulverule'ntum Michx, 



The powdery Storax. 



Don's Mill., 4. p. 4. 

 and our fig. 1011. 



Identification. Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., 1. p. 41. ; Wats. Dend. Brit, t. 41 

 Synonyme. S. lasvigatum Curt. Bot. Mag., t. 921. 

 Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 921. ; Wats. Dend. Brit., t. 41. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves almost sessile, 

 ovate or obovate, obtuse, clothed with 

 powdery tomentum beneath. Flowers 

 axillary, and nearly terminal by threes, 

 on short pedicels. (Don's Mill., iv. p. 

 4.) A shrub, from 4 ft. to 6 ft. high ; a 

 native of Virginia and Carolina, in woods. 

 It was introduced in 1794, and flowers 

 from June to August. According to 

 Pursh, it bears a close general resemblance to S. grandifolium. 



CHAP. LXXII. 



OF THE HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER HALES/^Yj^*. 



Genus I. 



fJ 



HALE V S/^ Ellis. The Halesia, or Snowdrop Tree. Lin. Syst. 

 Dodecandria Monogynia. 



Identification. Ellis in Lin/Gen., No. 596. ; Gaertn. Fruct, 1. p. 160. t. 32. j Juss. Gen., 156.; LindL 



Nat. Syst. Bot., p. 228. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 6. 

 Synonyme. Hal^sie, Fr. and Ger. 

 Derivation. Named by Ellis in honour of the learned and venerable Stephen Hales, D.D. F.R.S., 



author of Vegetable Statistics. 



Gen. Char., Sfc. Corolla monopetalous, ventricosely campanulate, with a 

 4-lobed erect border. Stamens 12 to 16. Filaments combined into a tube 

 at the base, and adnate to the corolla. Anthers oblong, erect, 2-celled, de- 

 hiscing lengthwise. Ovarium inferior. Style 1. Stigma simple. Drupe 

 dry, corticate, oblong, with 2 — 4-winged angles, terminated by the perma- 

 nent style, containing a 2 — 4-celled putamen, which is acute at both ends. 

 Cells 1-seeded. Seeds attached to the bottom of the cells. Testa of seeds 

 simple, very thin. Embryo the length of albumen, with linear-oblong cotyle- 

 dons, and a long, linear, compressed, inferior radicle. Albumen fleshy. — 

 Trees, with alternate serrated leaves, and lateral fascicles of pedicellate 



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