. 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. 67fJ ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. all respects closely resembled a catalpa. It is readily propagated by cuttings of the roots or shoots ; flowers vigorously in any common soil, tolerably dry, and will doubtless speedily become as common as the catalpa throughout Europe. Horticult
. 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. 67fJ ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. all respects closely resembled a catalpa. It is readily propagated by cuttings of the roots or shoots ; flowers vigorously in any common soil, tolerably dry, and will doubtless speedily become as common as the catalpa throughout Europe. Horticultural Society's Garden. Order LV. LABLVCE^. Ohd. Cmar. Calyx tubular, persistent, 3-cleft or 5—10-toothed, regular, or bi- labiate. Coro/Za tubular, bilabiate ; the upper lip undivided or bifid, and the lower one trifid. Stamens 4, didynamous, 2 of which are often sterile, inserted under the sinuses of the lower lip. Lobes of anthers usually divaricated. Ovaria 4, naked, seated on a glandular disk, and connected with the base of the style. Stigmah'AA. Achenia i, or kviev. .^/A«mere wanting, or sparing. — The opposite leaves, free 4-lobed ovarium, bilabiate corolla, and didynamous stamens distinguish this order from ^oragineae ; and the't-lobed ovarium separates it from Ferbenacece and -^canthaceae, &c. {) Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, evergreen ; small, crowded. Flowers axillary or terminal. — Low shrubs, for the most part so small as to be treated as herbaceous plants; natives chiefly of the South of Europe. Though there ai'e a number of genera belonging to this order containing species which are technically ligneous, yet there are none that can popularly be considered as shrubs fit for an arboretum, with the exception of Phlorais fi-uticosa, iJosmarinus officinahs, iavandula Spica, and Salvia officinalis ; these plants are so well known, that we consider it unnecessary to do more than give figures of them, with the following slight notices: — Vhlomi
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