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TETRANDRIA. TRICYNIA. Buxus. 
{Stems much twisted and entangled, deep red. Flowers most frequently 
four-cleft and tetrandrous. Cal. red, acute. Bloss. white, with a short, 
funnel-shaped tube. Stam. with an indexed, crescent-shaped, finely 
notched scale, close to the base of each. Styles rather elongated, spread¬ 
ing, with simple stigmas. Sm. Mr. Gerard. E. Smith denies its being 
an annual; having collected it in flower as early as March; when its 
fibres were thickly matted for hybernation. E.) 
Lesser Dodder. (Irish: Chilian Dearg. E.) Corn-fields and heaths; 
in various parts of England. (In gorse, in great quantities between 
Penzance and the Land’s End. On clover fields half a mile west of Stan¬ 
ton, Cumberland, its only station in the district. John Hogg, Esq. in 
Winch Geog. Dist. In great abundance on a hedge in a lane leading 
from Greenham Common to Chamber House, near Newbury. Mr. 
Bicheno. At Willesboro’ Leas, Kent. Rev. Ralph Price, in Sm. Obs. 
Near Aberdeen. Mr. A. Smith; and at Musselburgh. Mr. Neill. Hook. 
Scot. E.) A. June—July. 
Var. 2. Cup fleshy at the base; five-cleft: blossom five-cleft: stamens five; 
pistils two; seeds two. 
In Devon and Cornwall, with the preceding. (Though not exactly to be 
classed among the Plantce Rariores , these productions are so singularly 
interesting, that we venture to indicate a few well-marked localities. 
(Both the above varieties form extensive matted patches over the gorse 
on Haldon, above Bishop’s Teignton, near the road from Newton to 
Dawlish, Devon. They have been remarked by Miss Roberts hanging in 
elegant pink festoons over the rocks at Morte, near Ilfracombe. In profu¬ 
sion on a common about equidistant between Salisbury and Bridport, 
near the road. Mr. C. Fox. On furze bushes near Mollance, in Galloway. 
Dr. Burgess, in Hook. Scot. E.) June. 
TRIGYNIA. 
BUX'US.* Barren and fertile flowers on the same plant. 
B. Calyx three-leaved : Bloss. two petals : Germen only a 
rudiment. 
F. Calyx four-leaved : Bloss. three petals : Caps, three- 
celled ; three-beaked: Seeds two. 
B. SEMPERVihiENS. (Leaves egg-shaped, with foot-stalks hairy at the 
1 edge. £.) 
(E. Bot. 1341. E.)— Ludw. 4— Kniph. 1— Sheldr. 85— Wale. — Mattli. 190— 
Ger. 1225. 1 —Trag. 1069 —Dod. 782. 1—Munt. 157. 3 5—Lob. Obs. 662; 
Ic. ii. 2. 128— Ger. Em. 1410— Park. 1429. 1— Fuchs. 642— Blackw. 196 
— Lonic. i. 22. 2. 
(A low tree, or smooth, ever-green shrub. Leaves opposite, nearly sessile, 
oval, notched at the end, very entire, of various breadths, shining. Pe¬ 
tals concave, shorter than the stamens. FI. Brit. E.) Leaves oval, thick, 
glossy. Blossoms greenish white. 
* (Called by the Greeks 7rvfop, from Truxa, dense, thick ; but whether the epithet was 
originally applied to the foliage, or to the compact nature of the wood, may be question¬ 
able. E.) 
