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PART III.

40 years planted, it is 35 ft. high; in ,Rosenthal’s Nursery, 20 years planted, and 30 ft. high; atBrttck on the Leytha, 40 years planted, and 42 ft. high. In Prussia, at Sans Souci, 30 years planted,and 20 ft. high; at the Pfauen Insel, 8 years planted, and 22 ft. high. In Bavaria, at Munich,in the Botanic Garden, 20 years planted, and 20 ft. high. In Hanover, at Giittingen, in the UniversityBotanic Garden, 10 years planted, and 30 ft. high. In CasseI, at Wilhelmshohe, 60 ft. high. InSweden, at Lund, in the Botanic Garden, 2 years planted, and 4 ft. high. In Italy, at Monza, 29years planted, and 60 ft. high.

Commcrcial Statistics. Plants, in the London nurseries, are Is. 6d. each ; atBollwyller, from 1 franc to 1 franc 50 eents; at New York, ?.

CHAP. XXXI.

OF THE IIARDY AND HALF-HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF TIIEORDER CORIA'CEjE.

This order consists of only one genus, of which there is one species quitehardy, and one or two others, natives of New Zealand and Nepal, which areprobably half-hardy.

Genus I.

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CORIA'RIA Niss. The Coriaria. Lin. Syst. Diee'cia Decandria.

Identification. Niss. in Act. Par., 1711. t 12.; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 739. j Don’s Mill., 1. p. 818.

Synonymes. Redoul, Fr. ; Gerberstrauch, Gcr.

Derivation. From corium , a hide j C. wyrtifblia being used both in tanning leather and in dyeingit black.

Gen. Char., §c. Flowers either hermaphrodite, monoecious, or dioecious.Calyx 5-parted. Petals 5, sepaloid, smaller than the lobes of the calyx.Stamens 10, hypogynous, 5 between the lobes of the calyx and the angles ofthe ovarium, 5 between the petals and the furrows of the ovarium. Anthersbursting by longitudinal slits. Style none. Stigmas 5, long, awl-shaped.Carpels 5, surrounding a fleshy axis; when ripe, close together, but se-parate, not opening, 1-seeded, surrounded with glandular lobes. Oville andseed pendulous. Albumen none. Embryo straight. — Branehes square, op-posite. Leaves opposite, simple, 3-ribbed. ( Lindley, Introd. to N. S., andKey.)

« 1. C. a/yrtifo'lia L. The Myrtle-leaved Coriaria.

Identification. Lin. Sp., 1467.; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 739.; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 818.

Synonymes. Fustet des Corroyeurs, or Redoul k Feuilles de Myrte, Fr. j Myrtenblattriger Ger-berstrauch, Ger.

Engravings. Lam. 111., t. 822. j Du. Ham., 1. t. 73. j Wats. Dend. Brit., t. 103.; and our fig. 160.

Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, 160three-nerved, on short foot-stalks, glabrous.

Flowers in rather upright racemes. {Dec.

Prod., i. p. 739.) A deciduous shrub, growingto the height of from 4 ft. to 6 ft., in the southof Europe and north of Africa, in hedges andwaste places. It was introduced into Englandin 1629, and has since been frequent in col-lections, flowering from May to August. In itsnative country, it is said to be used for tan-ning, and for dyeing black; but whether itis cultivated for this purpose, or merelygathered where found wild, we have not been able to ascertain. InBritain, it is cultivated as an ornamental undershrub, chiefly reraarkablefor its myrtle-like leaves, and the handsome frond-like form of its branehes.