. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. Si/nonymcs. B. nSna Sue<;&rum Bromel. Chi. Goth. 11.; B. palfistris pOmila, &c., Cels. Erigravings. Am. Acad., 1.; Eng. Bot., t. 2326. ; and our fig. 1632. Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves orbicular, crenate, reticulated with veins beneath. A shrub, with numerous branches, slight
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. Si/nonymcs. B. nSna Sue<;&rum Bromel. Chi. Goth. 11.; B. palfistris pOmila, &c., Cels. Erigravings. Am. Acad., 1.; Eng. Bot., t. 2326. ; and our fig. 1632. Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves orbicular, crenate, reticulated with veins beneath. A shrub, with numerous branches, slightly downy when young, and beset with numerous, little, round, firm, smooth, sharply crenated leaves, beautifully reticulated with veins, especially beneath; and furnished with short footstalks, having a pair of brown lanceolate stipules at their base. Catkins erect, stalked, cylindrical, obtuse ; the barren ones lateral, and the fertile ones ter- minal. Scales of the latter 3-lobed, 3-flowered, permanent. Stigmas red. (Smith.) A bushy deciduous shrub. Lapland, Sweden, Russia, and Scotland, in Europe, and Hudson's Bay, and other parts of Caiiada, in America; on moun- tains, but almost always in boggy places. Height 2 ; to 3 ft.; in Briti-sh gardens 6 ft. to 8 ft. Catkins whitish green; April and May. Fruit brown; ripe in October. Vmieti/. «. B. «. 2 striata Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836, is somewhat more erect in habit than the species. H. 6. JB. (? N.) GLANDULOSA Michx. The glandular-ironcAerf Birch. Identification. Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., 2. p. 180.; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 622. Engraving. Our fig. 1S33. from h specimen in the British Museum. Spec. Char., Sfc. Branches beset with glandular dots, glabrous. Leaves obovate, serrate, quite entire at the base, glabrous, almost sessile. Female catkins oblong; scales half 3-cleft. Seeds round, with narrow margins. (Willd.) A handsome little deciduous shrub. Canada, about Hudson's Bay ; and on the borders of lakes on the high moun
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