. 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. 1015. Cephaliimlius occidentilis. lOlc. Mil!.') A bushy shrub. Canada to Florida, in marshy places. Height 3 ft. to 6 ft. Introduced in 1735. Flowers yellowish white ; July and August. - Fruit brownish; ripe in October. Variety, Si C. 0. 2 bracliypodus Dec. Prod. iv. p. 539. — Leaves ell
. 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. 1015. Cephaliimlius occidentilis. lOlc. Mil!.') A bushy shrub. Canada to Florida, in marshy places. Height 3 ft. to 6 ft. Introduced in 1735. Flowers yellowish white ; July and August. - Fruit brownish; ripe in October. Variety, Si C. 0. 2 bracliypodus Dec. Prod. iv. p. 539. — Leaves elliptic-oblong, 3 in a whorl, on short petioles. Petioles 3—4 lines long. There are varieties of this, with either glabrous or downy branches. North of Mexico, near Rio de la Trinidad and Bejar. It will grow in common garden soil, but prefers peat kept moist; and is propagated chiefly by seeds, but will also grow by cuttings and layers. It is an interesting shrub, from its curious round heads of flowers, and from the lateness of the season at which these appear. Oeder XLII. COMPO'SIT^. Orb. Cham. Calyx limb membranous or wanting; or divided into bristles, paleSE, or hairs. Corolla 5-toothed or 5-lobed, tubular, ligulate, or bilabiate on the top of the ovarium. Anthers combined, rarely free. Ovarium 1- celled, 1-seeded. Style 1. Stigmas 2. Fruit an achenium, crowned by the limb of the calyx. Albumen none. Characterised by the cohesion of tshe anthers, and the arrangement of the flowers in involucrated heads on a common receptacle. ((?. Don.) Leaves simple, or compound, stipulate or exstipulate, deciduous or ever green. Flowers grouped in heads ; those in each head so disposed, and so environed by an involucre composed of bracteas that corresponds to a calyx, as to seem to constitute but one flower. The genera that include hardy ligneous species are mostly natives of Eu- rope and North America: they are all of the easiest propagation and culture in any common garden soil, and a
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