ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUMBRITA1YJNTCUM.

CHAP. CVI.

OF THE HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER GARRY.!'CM.

G a'rry^ Douglas. Flowers unisexual; those of the two sexes upon distinctplants. — Male. Flowers in pendulous catkin-like racemes within connatebracteas. Calyx 4-leaved. Stamens 4. — Female ? Flowers in pendulouscatkin-like racemes, within connate bracteas. Calyx connate with theovary, 2-toothed. Ovary 1-celled. Styles 2, setaceous. Ovules 2, pen-dulous, with funiculi as long as themselves. Fruit a berried pericarp, notopening, containing 2 seeds. Embryo very minute, in the base of a greatmass of fleshy albumen.— Species, 1. A native of the west side of thedividing mountain range of North America , in temperate latitudes. Ashrub. Leaves opposite, without stipules, persistent. Wood without dis-tinct concentric zones, or vasiform tissue (dotted ducts). ( Lindley's Nat.Syst. of Botany , p. 173.)

Genus I.

GA'RRY/f Doug. The Garrya. Lin. Syst. Dioe'cia Tetrandria.Identification. Lindl. in Bot. Reg., 1.1686.

Derivation. Named by Mr. Douglas in compliment to Nicholas Garry , Esq., Secretary to the Hud-son’s Bay Company , to whose kindness and assistance he was much indebted during his travels inNorth-west America .

Description, <$-c. An evergreen shrub, with thick coriaceous leaves, likesome species of evergreen viburnum.

» 1. G. elli'ptica Doug. The elliptic-Zcared Garrya.

Identification. Doug. MS.; Lindl. Bot. Reg., 1.1686.

Engravings. Bot. Reg., t. 1686.; and our Jig. 1951.

Description, §c. A shrub, hitherto seen only from 3 ft. to 4 ft. high, butwhich will probably grow much higher. Branches, when young, pubescentand purplish; when older, smooth and greyish. Leaves opposite, exstipu-late, wavy, on short footstalks, oblong-acute, leathery, evergreen; dark greenand shining above; hoary beneath, with simple, twisted, interwoven hairs.{Lindl.) This very handsome true evergreen is a native of North Caro-lina , where it was discovered by Douglas. It was introduced in 1828, andflowered for the first time, in the Chiswick Garden, in October, 1834. Thefollowing observations, abridged from the Botanical Register, are by Dr.Lindley : — This plant is probaby the greatest botanical curiosity sent homeby Douglas; for it appears to represent a natural order altogether distinctfrom any previously known, and connecting certain well-known natural orders

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