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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.
PART III.
App. i. Half-hardy Species, qfY.uph6rb\a.
E. dcndroides L. is a native of Italy, Crete , and of the Island ofHieres, near TouIon ? where it forms a small branched shrub, about4 ft. high. E, Charkcias and E. dendroides, according to Dr. Philippi,grow in the streams of decayed lava on Etna . E. dendroides, he adds,
“ 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 branches 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., t. 1305., and our jig. 1214., 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, and5ft. 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. Chaiacias, in thesame garden, rarely exceeds 2§ ft. in height.
Other species , natives of the Levant, the Canaries, Portugal , andNorth and South'America, may possibly be found as hardy as E. mel-lifera. In the Vues Phytostatiques of Webb and Bertholet’s HistoireNaturelle des lies Canaries, the E, canari^nsis and E. piscatbria arerepresented in pi 2. as the prevailing species; the latter forminghandsome trees, fromlOft. to 15 ft. high, with straight, erect stems.
Genus II.
STiLLING/rf Garden. The Stillingia. Lin. Syst. Monoe'ciaMonadelphia.
Itlentification. “ Stillingia was sent under that name to Linnteus by the celebrated Dr. AlexanderGarden.” ( Smith in Rees’s Cyclop.) Lin. Mant., 19.; Schreb . Lin. Gen., 658. ; Smith in Rees’sCyclop.; Mart. Mill.Diet.
Derivation. Named by Dr. Alexander Garden in honour of Mr. Benjamin SUllingflect, author ofa work entitled Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Natural History , &c., partly translated from thewritings of Linnaeus .
Description, Sfc. The only hardy species is a deciduous shrub; a native of
* 1. S. Zigu'strina WiUd. The Vnvet-leaved Stillingia.
Identification. Willd. Sp. PI. , 4. p. 588.; Pursh FI. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 608.
Spec. Char., tf-c. Shrubby. Leaf consisting of a petiole and a disk that isoval-lanceolate, pointed at both ends, and entire. Male flowers upon veryshort pedicels. (J Lichx. 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 mJune 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.
iJU'XUS Tourn. The Box Tree. Lin. Syst. Monoe'cia Tetrandria.
Identifica/hm. Tourn. Inst, t. 345.; Lin. Gen., 436. ; Smith Eng. Flore, 4. p. 132.; Theodor K 6 * 5ab Esenbcek Gen. Plant. Flora; Germanicfe, fasc. 3. t. 16,
Synonymes. Buis, Fr. ; Buxbaura, Buchsbaum, Ger.