. 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. LVIII. POLYGONA CE^ : ^TRAPHA XIS. 679 after the flowering become more entirely rosy. The pedicels, erect while bearing the flower, after the flowering become deflexed, and render the fruit pendulous. The plant forms a hemispherical bush 2 or 3 feet high ; which, during great part of Jul
. 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. LVIII. POLYGONA CE^ : ^TRAPHA XIS. 679 after the flowering become more entirely rosy. The pedicels, erect while bearing the flower, after the flowering become deflexed, and render the fruit pendulous. The plant forms a hemispherical bush 2 or 3 feet high ; which, during great part of July and August, is covered with its beautiful white flowers, tinged with pink; and forms a truly admirable object. It thrives best in peat soil, and is worthy of a prominent place in the most select collections of shrubs. â Jt i. T. buxifo'lium Bieb. The Box-leaved Goat-Wheat. Identification. Bieb. Fl. Taurico-Caucas. Syiiovymes, Polygonum crfspulum ac Sims Bot. Mag. t. 1065.; F. cauc^sicum Hqffmannsegg. EnpoDinss. Bot. Mag., t 1065.; and our Jig. 1323. Spec. Char., S^c. Leaf obovate, obtuse, tipped with a short mucro ; the lateral margins undulated and re- flexed, glabrous. Ochreas with 2 awns. A decumbent shrub. Siberia. Stems 2 ft. Introduced in 1800. Flowers white ; July. Fruit red ; ripe in September. The leaves are of a hght green colour, rather rounded in outline, about 1 in. in diameter, and deciduous. The flowers are produced in long racemes, are nodding and white. The fruit is enclosed by the 3 inner sepals, which become, as the fruit ripens, of a rosy 1323. T. fiuxifblium. 3. T. POLT'GAMUM^;§)r. The ^oXygnmous-sexed Goat-Wheat. Identification. Spreng. Syst. Veg., 2. p. 251. Smumymes. Fol^gonmn pol^gamum Vent. Celt. t. 65. Engravings. Vent. Cels., t. 65.; and our Jig. 1324. F. parvifaiium Nutt. Gen. I. p. 256. Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves spathulate-linear. Ochreas lanceolate, shorter than the intemodes, Flowers in branched racemes, whose rachises are thr
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