782 
MONCECIA TETRANDRIA. 
Class XXI. 
1958. CIC'CA. W. 
13206 d'lsticha W. 
1959. MO'RUS. W. 
13207 alba JF. 
13208 tatarica W. 
13209 nigra ^V. 
13210 rubra JV. 
13211 tinctoria W. 
1960. BCEHME'RIA. 
13212 cyl'indrica W. 
13213 rubescens JV. 
13214 ramiflora W. 
13215 lateriflora IV. 
1961. PFLEA. Lindl. 
13216 muscosa Lindl. 
1962. URTFCA. JV. 
13217 pilul'ifera JV. 
13218 balearica JV. 
13219 convexa Hort. 
13220 Dodartii JV. 
13221 pumila JV. 
13222 involucrata B. M. 
13223 grandifolia JV. 
CiCCA. 
long-leaved 
$ □ f r 
Mulberry. 
white 
^ clt 
Tartarian 
^ or 
common 
% 
red 
s or 
Fust ick- wood 
f □ or 
IV. BaSHMERlA. 
cylindrical 
^ /\ un 
jft 1 1 or 
branch-flower. 
iSt □ un 
side-flowering 
^ ^ un 
Pi LEA. 
small-leaved 
Nettle. 
Roman 
O w 
Balearic 
O w 
convex 
O w 
Dodart's 
O w 
dwarf 
O w 
involucred 
*t □ un 
great-leaved 
tt- 1 1 un 
EuphorUacea;. Sp. 1. 
10 ... G E. Indies 1796. 
UrticecE. Sp. 5—7. 
SO jn 
10 jn. 
20 
Ap 
Ap 
Ap 
Ap 
Ap 
Uriiceo'. Sp. 4—13. 
Chin 
Tar tar y 
Italy 
N. Amer. 
W. Indies 
4 jn.au 
10 f.my 
8 f.mv 
H f.m"y 
Virginia 
Canaries 
Jamaica 
N. Amer. 
1596. 
17S4. 
1548. 
1629. 
1739. 
1759. 
1779. 
1823. 
1820. 
C p.l Jac.schoe.2.t.l94 
L CO Schk.han.3.t.290 
L CO Pall. ros. 2. t. 52 
L CO Dend. brit. 159 
J J r.m 
C r.m Plum. ic. t. 2C4 
Sk s.p Slo.jam.l.t.82.f.2 
C s.p Jac. frag. t. 5. f 1 
C CO Jacq. amer. 1. 157 
Sk CO 
Urticece. 
I ap.my G 
Sp. 1—3. 
W. Indies 1793. 
Urticece. Sp. 32—67. 
jn.au 
jiijl 
jiijl 
jl.au 
jl.au 
jl.au 
jl.au 
England rub. 
Balearicl. 1733. 
1824. 
S. Europe 1683. 
N. Amer. ... 
W. Indies 1821. 
Jamaica 1793. 
Lind. coll. 4. 
Eng. bot. 148 
Blackw. t.321.f.l 
Bot. mag. 2481 
Slo.jam.l.t.83.f2 
Ml ^ rdnrj ^ 13214 
Histoj-y, Use, Propagation, Culture, 
flute maker ; and the roots for the inlayer, and cabinet maker. Of box are made wheels and shivers, pins, 
pegs for musical instruments, nut-crackers, button-moulds, weavers' shuttles, hollar-sticks, bump-sticks, and 
dresr-ers for the shoemaker, rulers, rolling-pins, pestles, mall-balls, beetles, tops, tables, chessmen, screws, 
bobbins for bone-lace, spoons, knife-handles, but especially combs." 
The English wood is esteemed inferior to that which comes from the Levant, and the American box is said 
to be preferable to ours, for most purposes ; but the English is superior for the purpose of the engraver. 
The ancients made combs of box, and musical instruments to be played upon by the mouth The Romans 
likewise clipped it into form, for which nothing, says Phny, is more fit. And Martial mentions clipped box trees 
in the gardens at Bassus's country-house. 
The tree box was second to the yew with us in former times for the purpose of being clipped into the shape of 
animals, &c. ; but the dwarf box stood unrivalled " for bordering up a knot, and was esteemed a marvellous 
fine ornament to the flower garden." 
The branches were in request among our ancestors for decking up houses ; they are still seen among other 
evergreens in churches at Christmas, and in some countries they are borne by attendants at funerals. 
Box has been much celebrated as a medicine in the venereal disease, colicks, intermittent fevers, and even 
madness. According to Dr. Blaine, it is the principal ingredient in Well's Watford Drink, which is given a« a 
preventive to canine madness. 
Pliny affirms, that no animal will touch the seed of box. Gmelin relates, that the branches are fatal to the 
camels that eat them. M one of our animals seem to touch this tree. Corsican honey was supposed by the 
ancients to owe its infamy to the bees feeding on the box. 
1958. Cicca. A word of unknown meaning. Cicca disticha thrives in light loamy soil, and 'is increased 
by cuttings with their leaves on, planted in sand, and covered with a hand-glass. 
1959. Morus. Mootct was the Greek name of the Mulberry ; it is derived from the Celtic mor, which 
signifies black. Murier, Fr., Maulbeerbaum, Ger., and Moro, Ital M. alba is commonly cultivated in France 
and other countries for its leaves, to feed silk-worms ; though in some parts of Spain and in Persia they are 
said to prefer the black mulberry. In China, it appears that both sorts are grown for the same purpose. The 
most valuable variety of M. alba is one grown in Italy, and especially in Lombardy, with vigorous shoots, and 
much larger leaves than the other. A number of plants of tiiis variety have been lately imported for the 
purpose of making a plantation in the south of Ireland, with a view to try the growth of silk in that country. 
In France the white mulberry is grown as pollard elms are in England ; in Lombardy it is grown exactly 
in the same way as we grow willows for baskets, and in similar soil ; in China it is also grown in moist, loamy 
soil, and both there and in the East Indies as low bushes, and the plantation rooted up and renewed every three 
or four years. In many parts of the continent, when the leaves are wanted for the worms, they are stript off 
the young shoots., which are left naked on the tree ; in other places the shoots are cut off, which is not so 
injurious to the tree, while the points of the shoots, as well as the leaves, are eaten by the worms. The plants 
are sometimes raised by seed, but more commonly by layers ; the Italian variety is frequently grafted on seedling 
stocks of the common sort, in order to preserve it from degenerating. In the East Indies, the plants are raised 
from cuttings, three or four of which are placed together where they are finally to remain. {Encyc. o/Agr. 884.) 
The fruit of the white mulberry is white, and less acid than that of the black species. 
M. nigra is naturally a stronger tree than the other ; the fruit is of a dark blackish red, and of an agreeable 
aromatic and acid flavor. It has a place in the Materia Medica, as cooling and laxative, allaying thirst, and 
being grateful in febrile diseases. Young trees, like most others of the Monoecious class, often produce 
