828 
DICECIA TRIANDRIA. 
Class XXII. 
2046. WILLDENO'VIA. Th. Willdenoyia. 
13823 teres W. 
2047. RES'TIO. W. 
13824 tectorum W. 
13825 virgatus W. 
13826 dichoiomus W. 
13827 paniculatus W. 
13828 vaginatus W. 
2048. ELE'GIA. W. 
13829 juncea ThuiU). 
13830 racemosa Lam. 
2049. PHCE'NIX. TV. 
13831 dactyl'ifera W. 
13832 reel nata JF. 
13833 farinlfera W. 
13834 acaulis Roxb. 
round-stalked 
lAJ 
pr 
2 
Rope Grass. 
thatch 
Ml 
iM 
un 
3 
twiggy 
M 
lAJ 
un 
3 
dichotomous 
Mt 
lAI 
un 
3 
panicled 
m 
lAJ 
un 
2 
sheathed 
Ml 
lAJ 
un 
3 
Elegia. 
Rush-like 
Ml 
lAJ 
un 
1 
racemed 
Ml 
lAJ 
un 
1 
EestiaceiB. 
jn.jl Ap 
Restiacece. 
my.jn Ap 
my.jn Ap 
my.jn Ap 
my.jn Ap 
my.jn Ap 
Restiacece. 
jl.au Ap 
Sp. 1—3. 
C. G. H. 
Sp. 
C. G. H. 
C. G. H. 
C. G. H. 
C. G. H. 
C. G. H. 
Sp. 2—3. 
C. G. H, 
C. G. H. 
1790. R 8.p Ac.h.l790.t.2.f.2 
1793. 
1S24. 
18'-'3. 
1824. 
1820. 
1789. 
1804. 
2050. STILA'GO. 
13835 Bunius W. 
13836 diandra fV. 
2051. OSY'RIS. fF. 
13837 alba IV. 
W. 
Date Palm, 
common 
reclining 
small 
stemless 
Stilago. 
Laurel-leaved j 
diandrous j 
Poet's Cassia. 
white i 
Palnice. Sp. 4. 
£ i_J fr ... W.G Levant 1597. 
£Ljor 10 ... W.G C. G. H. 171^2. 
i O or 8 ... W.G E. Indies ISOO. 
J. □ or 6 ... W.G E. Indies 1816. 
Sp.% 
5 CD un 20 au Ap E. Indies 17.77. 
i □ un 20 ... Ap R Indies 1800. 
Santalacece. 
3 ... W 
Sp 1—2. 
S, Europe 1739. 
R s.p Ro.gra.l0.t.3.f.2 
R s.p Rot.gra.5. t,l.f.2 
R s.p Rot.gra.4. t.2.f.l 
R s.p Rot.gra.4. t.2.f.3 
R s.p 
C l.p Rot.gra.8. t.3. f.4 
C Lp Lam.iU. t.804.f.4 
S r.ra K.ainse.686.t.l,2 
S l.p Jac.frag. 27. t. 24 
S r.m Rox. cor. 1. t. 74 
S r.m 
C p.l Rhee.mal.4. t.56 
C p.l Rox. cor.2. t.lGG 
C l.p Lam. ill. t. 802 
TETRANDRIA. 
2052. AU'LAX. R. Br. Aulax. Troteacece. Sp. 2. 
13838 pinifolia R. Br. Pine-leaved at O or 2 jl s Y C. G. H. 1780. C l.p Bot. rep. 76 
13839 umbellata R. Br. umbellcd ^ □ or 2 jn.au Y C. G. H. 1774. C l.p Bot. rep. 248 
History, Use, Propagation, Culture, 
very common in the norlliern parts of Europe, in eievated situations, on dry, barren, moorish, or boggy soils. 
It is more patient of col.l than even the common heath. The Highlanders' children eat the berries, but they 
are no very desirable fruit ; and taken in large quantities, are said to bring on a slight head-ache. The Russian 
peasants, however, eat them, and the Kamtschadales gather great quantities of them to boil with their fish, or 
to make a sort of pudding with the bulbs of their lillies. They are esteemed antiscorbutic and diuretic. 
Grouse and heathcocks feed upon them, and they give the excrement a tinge of purple. Boiled in alum- 
water they afford a dark purple dye ; and boiled with fat, they are said to be used in dying otter and sable skins 
black. Cattle do not seem to browse on this shrub. The French word Camarine, is an alteration of Cama- 
rinhas, the Portuguese name of E. album. 
2046. Willdenovia. A rush-like plant, with long flexible slender shoots, named in honor of Charles Louis 
Willdenow, a celebrated Prussian botanist, whose edition of Linnasus's Species Plantarum is not only the best 
which has been published in modern days, but excellent in itself. 
2047. Restio. From restis, cord ; the supple shoots of many species are used as withs at the Cape of 
Good Hope. The houses of the Cape of Good Hope are commonly thatched with this plant both in town and 
country, and sometimes whole huts are built with it. A roof thatched with it will last twenty or thirty years, 
and would last much longer, if the south-east wind did not blow much dirt into it, which causes it to rot. 
2048. Elegia. From tXiyoi, lamentation, in allusion to the sad or mourning color of the whole plant. A 
hard rushy plant, with the habit of a Restio. 
2049. Phoenix. The Greek name of the date, and probably so called from Phoenicia, whence the best dates 
were brought. Dactylifera is the Greek version of Palma, both signifying the hand, to the fingers of 
which the ancients likened the bunches of dates. P. dactylifera is a lofty palm, with a rugged trunk, on 
account ol the persisting vestiges of the decayed leaves. These leaves, when the tree is grown to a size for 
bearing fruit, are six or eight feet long, with pinnae three feet long, and a little more than an inch broad. The 
flowers of both sexes come out in very long bunches from the trunk between the leaves, and are covered with 
a spatha, which opens and withers ; those of the male have six short stamina, with narrow four-cornered 
anthers filled with farina. The female flowers have no stamina, but have a roundish germ, which afterwards 
becomes an oval berry, with a thick pulp enclosing a hard oblong stone, with a deep furrow running longitudi- 
nally. The fruit of this tree makes a great part of the diet of the inhabitants of Arabia and part of Persia. 
In Upper Egypt many families subsist almost entirely upon it. They make a conserve of it with sugar ; and 
even grind the hard stones in their hand-mills for their camels. In Barbary they turn handsome beads for 
paternosters of these stones. The date is said to strengthen the stomach and intestines, to stop looseness, and 
promote expectoration, for which purpose it is given in pectoral decoctions. It is also recommended in the 
piles, given in red wine. From the leaves of the tree they make baskets or bags in Barbary. In Egypt they 
make fly-flaps of them, and brushes to clean their sofas or clothes. The hard boughs are used as fences to 
their gardens, and cages to carry their fowls to market. The trunk is split for the same purposes, and is even 
used in small buildings. It serves likewise for firing. The threads of the web-like integument between the 
