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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.
I*ART III
App. i. Half-hardy Species of Y,uph6rb\<\.
E. dendroides L. is a native of Italy, Crete, and of the Island ofHieres, near Toulon, where it forms a small branched shrub, about4 ft. high. E. G’harkcias and E. dendroides, according to Dr. Philippi,grow in the streams of decayed lava on Etna. E. dendroides, he adds,44 is one of the finest shrubs in Sicily, and rises to a height of about6 ft., the stem forking soon above the ground, and each branch di-vided again, so that the form of the whole is perfectly semiglobular.In summer it is quite bare of foliage, when the numerous, smooth,verticillate brandies give the plant a most singular appearance; butwith the rains of autumn the numerous linear leaves begin to sproutforth at the end of the boughs, and a corymb of yellow flowers tipsthe extremity of each in February.” {Comp, to the Bot. Mag., i. 51)
E. mellifera Ait., Bot.Mag., 1.1305., and our./?g.l214., is a handsomefree-growing shrub, a native of Madeira. A plant stood out in theTrinity College Botanic Garden, at Dublin, from 1821 to 1831, form-ing a bush about 4| ft. high, and 5 ft. in diameter, flowering all thewinter. It was cut down by the severe frost of the spring of 1831,but sprang up again ; and it is now (Sept. 1836), Mr. Mackay informsus, nearly 5 ft. in height, and 5 ft. in diameter. E. Chai2cias, in thesame garden, rarely exceeds 2| ft. in height.
Other species , natives of the Levant, the Canaries, Portugal, andHorth and South America, may possibly be found as hardy as E. mel-lifera. In the Vues Fhytostaiiques of Webb and Bertholet’s HistoireNaturcllc des lies Canaries, the E. canadensis and E. piscatdria arerepresented in pi 2. as the prevailing species ; the latter forminghandsome trees, fromlOft. to 15 ft. high, with straight, erect stems
Genus II.
STILLI'NGLd Garden. The Stillingja. Lin. Syst. Monoe'ciaMonadGphia.
Identification. i( Stillingia was sent under that name to Linn®us by the celebrated Dr. AlexanderGarden.” (Stnith in Rees’s Cyclop.) Lin, Mant., 19.; Sehreb. Lin. Gen., 658. ; Smith in llecs’sCjclop.; Mart. Mill. Diet.
Derivation. Named by Dr. Alexander Garden in honour of Mr. Benjamin St'dlingjicet, author ofa work entitled Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Natural History , &c., partly translated from thewritings of Linn®us.
Description, $c. The only hardy species is a deciduous shrub; a native of
North America.
s 1. S. Zigu'strina Willd. The Privet -leaved Stillingia.
Identification. Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 588.; Pursh FI. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 608.
Spec. Char., $c. Shrubby. Leaf consisting of a petiole and a disk that isoval-lanceolate, pointed at both ends, and entire. Male flowers upon very-short pedicels. (Michx. FI. Bor. Amer., ii. p. 213.) Nuttall has questionedwhether the sexes are not dioecious, and has noted the female flowers as“ not seen,” but the male ones as being disposed in spikes, part lateral, partterminal, and as having a 3-cleft, rather flat, calyx, and 3 stamens that havekidney-shaped anthers; and the bracteas as 1-2-glanded and 1-flowered.(Nutt. Gen. Amer.) A deciduous shrub, growing about 4ft. high; a nativeof North America, in shady woods, in Carolina and Georgia; flowering inJune and July. It was introduced in 1812, and plants were in the collectionof Messrs. Loddiges in 1830. From these gentlemen we received a plantin that year, but it is since dead; as is also a plant of this species in theHackney arboretum ; we are not aware that the species is now in exist-ence, in a living state, in England.
Genus III.
HU'XU8 Town. The Box Tree. Lin. Syst. Monoe'cia Tetrandria.
Identification. Tourn. Inst., t. 345.; Lin. Gen., 486. ; Smith Eng. Flora, 4. p. 132.; Theodor Neesab Esenbeek Gen. Plant, Florae Germanic®, fasc. 3. t. 16.
Synonymes. Buis, Fr .; Buxbaum, Buchsbaum, Ger.