. 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. 570 ARBORETUM ET FRUTK'ETUM .BRITANNICUM. Spec. Char., Sfc. Glabrous, except that the branchlets are beset with short white hairs. Leaves elliptical-lanceolate, acute, ovate, or taper at the base, serrated. Flovpers white, disposed unilaterally in long lateral and terminal racemes. (Don'
. 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. 570 ARBORETUM ET FRUTK'ETUM .BRITANNICUM. Spec. Char., Sfc. Glabrous, except that the branchlets are beset with short white hairs. Leaves elliptical-lanceolate, acute, ovate, or taper at the base, serrated. Flovpers white, disposed unilaterally in long lateral and terminal racemes. (Don's Mill.') An erect evergreen shrub. Canada to Florida. Height 2 ft. Introduced in ? 1812. Flowers vi'hite; June. Genus X. r i PrERIS D. Don. The Pibris. lAn. Syst. Decandria Monogynia. Identification. D. Don in Edinb. New Phil. Journ., 17. p. 15S. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 832. Synonyme. Andr6nieda sp. Waliich. Derivation- Pieris, a general appellation of the Mus"s, who were called Pierides, from their birth- place, Pieria, in Thessaly. Gen. Char. Calyx deeply 5-parted. Corolla tubular or ovate, with a con- tracted, 5-tgothed, revolute border. Stamens enclosed; filaments dilated, bisetose at top; cells of anthers short, incumbent, dehiscing lengthwise. Style robust, pentagonal. Stigma truncate. Capsule with a loculicidal de- hiscence. Seeds scobiform. (Don's Mill.) Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, evergreen ; coriaceous. Flowers droop- ing, terminal, racemose.— Shrub or low tree, evergreen, native of Nepal. 2 1. P. 0VAHF0"LiA D. Don. The oval-leaved Pieris. Jdentiflcation. Ed. Phil. Journ., 17. p. 159.; Don's Mill., 3. p. 832 Synonymes. Andrdmeda ovaliR)lia Jsta^ ijw. 13. p. 391.; A. capriclda Hamilton MSS. Ejigravings. Asiat. Res., 13. p. 391.; and our Jig. 1070. Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves oval, acuminated, 2 in. to 4 in. long, 1 in. to 2 in. broad, rounded at the base, entire, downy when yoimg. Flowers upon downy pedicels, and disposed unilaterally in lateral, leafy,
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