. 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. 706 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. mauros, dark j and Sir J. E. Smith suggests that it may have been taken bjr antiphrasis from moras, foolish, the mulberry tree, from its slowness in putting out its leaves, being anciently con- sidered the emblem of wisdom. The Morea, in the Levan
. 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. 706 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. mauros, dark j and Sir J. E. Smith suggests that it may have been taken bjr antiphrasis from moras, foolish, the mulberry tree, from its slowness in putting out its leaves, being anciently con- sidered the emblem of wisdom. The Morea, in the Levant, is said to be so called from the resemblance of the shape of that peninsula to the leaf of a mulberry. Gen. Char., ^c. Flowers unisexual, mostly monoecious, in some dicEcious or polygamous. — Male flowers in axillary spikes. Calyx of 4 equal sepals, imbricate in aestivation, expanded in flowering. Stamens 4. Female flowers. Calyx of 4 leaves, in opposite pairs, the outer pair the larger, all upright and persistent, becoming pulpy and juicy. Stamens 2, long. (G. Don.) Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, deciduous ; large, mostly lobed and rough. Flowers greenish white. Fruit the aggregate of the ovary and the calyxes, constituting what is termed a mulberry. — Trees, deciduous; natives of Europe, Asia, and North America. Propagated by cuttings or layers, or by large truncheons, in good soil. The leaves of all the species will serve to nourish the silkworm ; but M. alba, and its varieties, are considered much the best for this purpose. 2 1. M. NroRA Pair. The black-fruited, or common. Mulberry, IdenUflcation. Poir. Ency. Meth., 4. p. 377.; Lin. Sp. PI, 1398 ; Wllld. Sp. PI., 4. p. 369. Synonymes. J/brus Bod. Pempt. 810.; M. frfictu nlgro Bauh. Fin. 459. Engravings. Dend. Brit., t. 169.; N. Du Ham., 4. t. 22.; the plate in Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. vii.; and our fig. 1380. Spec. Char., S^c, Sexes monoecious, sometimes dioecious; Leaves heart- shaped, bluntish, or slight
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