. 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. 144 ARBORETUM ET FKUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. Stamevs A~—o, very short. Style short. Fruit compressed, indehiscent, samara-like, turgid, 2—S-celled. Seeds oblong. (Don's Mill.) Leaves compound, alternate, stipulate, deciduous ; pinnate, 3- rarely 5- foliolate, with pellucid dots, the lateral
. 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. 144 ARBORETUM ET FKUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. Stamevs A~—o, very short. Style short. Fruit compressed, indehiscent, samara-like, turgid, 2—S-celled. Seeds oblong. (Don's Mill.) Leaves compound, alternate, stipulate, deciduous ; pinnate, 3- rarely 5- foliolate, with pellucid dots, the lateral leaflets inequilateral. Flowers whitish, cymose : cymes corymbed or panicled.—Deciduous shrubs or low trees, natives of North America and Asia. There is only one species in British gardens, which is of the easiest culture, and is propagated by seeds and cuttings, put in in autumn, and covered with a hand glass. t sit I. P. trifolia'ta L. The three-leajleted Ptelea, or Shrvbhy Trefoil. Identification. Lin. Sd., 173.; Willd. Sp. PI., 1. 670.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 82.; Don's Mill., 1. p. 806.; Tor. and Gray, 1. p. Synonymes. Orme de Samarie S trois Feullles, IPr. \ dreyblattrige Lederblume, Ger. £ngravings. Dill. Elth., t. 122.; Schmidt Arb., 2. t. 76.; the plate in Arb. Brit., 1st. edit., vol. v., and oar Jig. 193. Spec. Char., S^c. Leaf of three leaflets that ai'e ovate acute, the middle one much tapered towards its base. Flowers in corymbs, usually tetrandrous. (Dec. Prod.) A low tree or shrub. Lake Erie to Florida and Texas. Height 6ft. to 10ft. Introd. 1704. Flowers whitish; June and July; Capsules greenish ; ripe in October. Decaying leaves of a remarkably clear rich yellow. Naked young wood dark purplish brown. Varieties. t pentaph^lla Munchh. has 5 leaflets, H. S. S a P. f. 3 pubescens Pursh has the leaflets pubescent. When this plant is pruned up with a single stem, it forms a handsome low tree with a hemispherical head ; but in British gardens it is mor
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