WIDOW-WAIL, 



CNEORUM TRICOCCUM. 



AMYRIDE^. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



French^ camelee : Italian, gneoro : Called also spurge olive. 



The Cneorum is a humble shrvib, growing in hot, 

 dry, and rocky soils in the south of France, Italy, and 

 Spain. It was cultivated in this country by Gerarde in 

 1596. 



Although of low growth, yet as it is evergreen, bushy, 

 and well furnished with leaves, this shrub is both orna- 

 mental and useful in filling up vacancies left near the 

 earth by taller shrubs. The leaves are about an inch 

 and a half long, and a quarter of an inch in the middle ; 

 of a dark green, with a strong vein or rib down the 

 middle. The flowers grow from the wings of the leaves, 

 near the extremity of the branches ; their colour is a 

 pale yellow ; they begin to blow in May, and continue, 

 in mild seasons, even to the end of October. The fruit, 

 which is composed of three seeds joined together like 

 those of euphorbia, is at first green, afterwards brown, 

 and when fully ripe, is quite black. 



This shrub was formerly preserved in greenhouses, 

 but has now long sustained our climate in the open 

 ground, and is found to bear it very well, even in the 

 severest seasons, if it be planted in a poor dry soil ; but 

 if the ground be moist and rich, the shoots become more 

 luxuriant, and are often injured by hard frosts. 



