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will strike under a handglass, it is quite 
probable, if we would be at the pains to 
save the seed, and cultivate seedlings, that 
most of the species would be found to 
yield varieties, and possibly some good 
additions might thus be made to our 
hardy shrubs. 
STACHYS (Linn.) Nat. Ord. La- 
biatae. There are a few of the members 
of this genus which possess a sufficiently 
shrubby character to be admitted in our 
present catalogue; and though not re¬ 
markable for any great brilliancy in their 
flowers, are worth planting in shrubbery 
borders for the sake of creating variety; 
and as they produce spikes of purple or 
yellow flowers without trouble, may be 
reckoned among the occasional aids so 
useful in large plantations. 
The species we refer to ar e fndiculosa, 
purple ; lavandulaffolia purple; Palas- 
tina, purple ; scordioides, yellow; and 
stenophylla, yellow. The second and last 
were formerly included in the genus 
Sideritis ; they grow in any soil, and be¬ 
neath trees if not in the immediate drip, 
and may be readily increased by divisions 
or cuttings struck under a handglass. 
STRANViESIA (Lindley). Nat. 
Ord. Rosacea. The single species which 
constitutes this genus was brought from 
Nepal, under the name of Crataegusglauca. 
From that genus, however, it was sepa¬ 
rated by Dr. Lindley, and named in com¬ 
pliment to the Honorable William Fox 
Strangways, e.e.s., a learned and inde¬ 
fatigable investigator of the flora of 
Europe; it is now called S. glaucescens. 
Except in the warmest parts of our island 
the plant requires protection in winter, 
or at least should be trained to a south 
wall, and have a mat nailed over it in 
severe weather. The handsome and fra¬ 
grant pure white flowers are produced in 
June. Propagation is effected by graft¬ 
ing or budding on the common thorn. 
STYRAX, Storm (Linn.) Nat. Ord. 
Rbenacea. This is a limited genus of 
deciduous shrubs, for the most part of 
dwarf habit and copious style of flowering. 
Three are natives of North America, and 
the fourth of the Levant, where it is still 
in esteem on account of a fragrant gum 
collected from it; this tree, S. officinale, 
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the largest of the genus, as it reaches a 
height of twelve feet, has slender branches, 
ovate leaves and starry white flowers 
produced in racemes from the sides of 
the branches, succeeded by roundish 
trusses containing one or two angular 
nuts. The gum called storax is extracted 
from the stem and branches by incision, 
and was formerly a considerable article of 
export from Asiatic Turkey; it has an 
agreeable odour, and slightly pungent 
aromatic taste, and was much used in 
medicine, but is now only regarded as an 
adjunct on account of its fragrance. 
The North American species, grandi- 
florum , levigatum, and pulverulent urn, are 
pretty dwarf shrubs, not growing more 
than four feet high, bearing numerous 
white flowers, and therefore desirable 
among other shrubs. They grow best in 
sandy loam, and should have an open 
airy position; they may be propagated 
either by layers put down with a tongue 
in autumn, which form plants fit for re¬ 
moval by the same period in the next 
year, or, when seeds are ripened, which 
will happen in warm seasons, they may 
be sown in a cold frame, and usually make 
the best specimens. 
SYMPHORICARP US, St. Peter's 
Wort (Dillenius). Nat. Ord. Caprifo- 
liacece. This genus is sometimes called 
by its syncope Symphonia ; it contains 
three species, all useful plants of the 
deciduous class, well suited for filling the 
fronts of shrubbery borders, as they grow 
in any soil, and will bear the drip of trees 
to an extent beyond most other shrubs. 
Their flowers are inconspicuous, but 
being succeeded by clusters of pure white 
berries, the plants are rendered very or¬ 
namental in autumn; from this circum¬ 
stance they are popularly known as snow- 
berries. The species are montanus , race- 
mosus, and mdgaris; of the last there is 
a variety with variegated foliage :—the 
whole are readily increased by suckers, 
which they throw up in abundance. 
SYRINGA, Lilac (Linn.) Nat. Ord. 
Oleaceae. This popular genus is for the 
most part derived from the East, and our 
common name Lilac appears to be an 
alteration of the Persian, lilag , a flower; 
so also the generic appellation seems to* 
