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in cabinet or finer sorts of housework, for which its handsome 
light salmon-colour, streaked and rayed with darker cinnamon- 
red, would otherwise recommend it. It is also used for making 
troughs, bowls, spoons, &c., being very durable and proof against 
moisture. The stronger and thicker st. make excellent stout 
u bordoens ” or hammock-sticks ; and the long slender virgate 
stems of the smaller or younger shr. were also formerly the 
favourite material for the poles ( varas ) used to support the 
French bean(Fk*/ao)-pl. in the north ; affording also, with the 
root-stocks, the best and most lasting fuel ( lenlio ) ; whilst the 
terminal leafy finer boughs and twigs or top shoots yielded 
■when dry the best brushwood (queima) for kindling or heating 
ovens ; though now indeed, owing to the yearly reckless de- 
struction of the native forests, recourse is almost everywhere 
becoming necessary for all these purposes to what is called in 
Mad. “the Lisbon Pine” ( Firms Pinaster L.). Another use 
for the young fresh green tops of the branches which I can from 
personal experience commend, is that of forming a dry elastic- 
clean and scentless substratum for a bed or mattrass in encamp- 
ing on the mountains. 
b. Anthers ecaudate. 
3. E. sc op aria L. TJrza (i. e. TJrze) durazia . 
Suffr., shr. or subarborescent mostly bushy, branchlets erect 
smooth cinnamon -brown or reddish ; 1. 3-4-nate not fascicled, 
stiff rigid very smooth and shining bright gr. linear subobtuse ; 
fi. inconspicuous pale yellowish gr. more or less tinged especially 
above with dull red or rose-purple, rather small cernuous solitary 
or 2-3-nate in the axil of each leaf towards the ends of the 
branches and branchlets, forming subunilateral rac. collected 
into brushlike thyrsoidal terminal panicles ; pedic. mostly shorter 
than the cor. smooth 2-3-bracteolate about halfway up, some- 
times dark dull reddish, br. minute; sep. broadly ovate smooth 
united halfway up, | length of cor. ; cor. subglobose or globoso- 
campanulate open and not constricted at top, lobes broadly 
ovate or triangular half the length of tube ; anth. simple in- 
cluded or shorter than cor. -lobes, dark dull reddish brown or 
purple ; stigma large peltate subquadrangular or 4-lobate sub- 
exserted beyond the tips of the cor.-lobes, dark dull red; caps. 
— Linn. Sp. 502 (partly) ; Vill. Dauph. iii. 
515 ; Lam. Diet. i. 479 ; Brot. ii. 21 ; Pers. i. 423 (partly) ; Spr. 
ii. 192; DC. vii. 692; WB. iii. 14; Coss. et Germ. i. 237 ; Gren. 
