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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.
PART III.
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Spec. Char., fyc. Stem shrubby. Leaves alternate oropposite, their figure partaking of an oblong and arhomb, entire. ( Willd .) It inhabits hedges on the
coast of Spain , Portugal , Virginia, and Siberia ; andwas introduced in 1640. An evergreen shrub, whichgrows about 5 ft. or 6 ft. high, and forms a large broadhead. The young branches are covered with a smoothwhite bark, which becomes grey, and peels off length-wise, as the tree gets old. The branches are verybrittle, and have but little pith. The leaves are soft,white, and silvery, and, in shape, resemble the GreekA. The shrub seldom flowers in Britain ; but, fromits not being quite deciduous, and from the silvery hueof its foliage, it is a valuable plant for shrubberies andother ornamental plantations. It may be propagatedby cuttings made in the usual manner, but carefullyprotected from sparrows, which are so fond of theleaves of this shrub, that “ when they once find themout, they will never leave or forsake them, until they have entirely strippedthe plants; and though the shrub will shoot out afresh, yet they will asconstantly repair to their repast; and will thus continue to prey uponthem, until they have entirely destroyed them.” (See Marshall on Plantingand Rural Ornament, vol. ii. p. 29.) It requires a sheltered situation,being liable to injury from frost. Price of plants, in the London nurseries,Is. dd. each.
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1158
2. A. portulacoi'des L.
The Purslane-like,Purslane.
Identification. Lin. FI. Suec., 828. 919.; Mill. Diet, No. 3. j Willd. Sp.
PI., 4. p. 957.; Smith Eng. Flor. , 4. p. 256.
Synonymes. i/alimus secundus CLus. Hist., 54. f.; H. vulg&ris Ger.Emac., 523. f.; Hk limus seu Portulaca marina Bauh. Fin., 120.;^'triplex marUima, tfalimus et Portul&ca marina dicta, angustifdlia,Bait Syn. t 153. j the narrow-leaved Sea Purslane Tree.
Engravings , Eng. Bot., t. 231.; and our fig. 1159.
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Spec. Char., $c. Stem shrubby, spreading. Leavesopposite, obovate-lanceolate, entire. Flowers gene-rally unisexual; those of both sexes upon one plant.
{Smith Eng. Flor.) It inhabits the northern shoresof Europe ; and, in Britain and Ireland , is occasion-ally found in muddy places by the sea side. It is alow shrub, or trailer, with less silvery leaves thanthose of the preceding species; the whole plant, also,is much smaller. It may be grown in the open gar-den, or in pots among alpines. The name of i/ali-mus, given to this and the preceding species by Clu- *sius, has probably been the source of the epithet ha-limifolia, applied to several other plants; so that w.Baccharis ialimifolia, &c., means that the leaves are glaucous, and resemblingthose of certain kinds, of -d'triplex.
Genus III.
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DIO'TIS Schreb. The Diotis. Lin. Syst. Monce'cia Tetrandria.
.Identification. Lin. Gen. PI., ed. Schreber, No. 1423.; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 368.; Nutt. Gen. and Cat .N. Amer. PI., 2. p. 207. It is not the Dibtis of Desf . FI. Atl.; Dec. FI. Fr.; Smith Eng. Flor. , 3.p.,402.; which is the Otanthus of Link Enum., and the Santollna marltima L.
Synony?nes. Ceratbldes Town, ; A'xyris, Lin. j Ceratosp^rmum Pers.