. 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. LXV. ARTOCA EPE^ : BO RY^. 713. 1587. Fjcas C&rjca. for which, and their treatment, see the Encyc. of Gard., and the Suburban Horticulturist. Genus V. BO'RYif W. The Borta. Lin. St/st. Dice'cia Di-Triandria. Identification. Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 711.; Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., vol 5.
. 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. LXV. ARTOCA EPE^ : BO RY^. 713. 1587. Fjcas C&rjca. for which, and their treatment, see the Encyc. of Gard., and the Suburban Horticulturist. Genus V. BO'RYif W. The Borta. Lin. St/st. Dice'cia Di-Triandria. Identification. Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 711.; Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., vol 5. Symmymes. Ad^lia Michx, FL Ear. Amer. 2. ; Bigeibvm Smith in Rees'a Cvclop. Addenda, Derivation. Named in honour of Bori/ de St. yincent, who visited the Mauritius and the Isle of Bourbon, to examine their botany. Smith, in Rees's CyclopiEdia, objects to the name of B5rya being applied to this genus, b^ause La Eillardi^re had previously given the same name to another genus; and he suggests the .substitution of the name of Bigel5via, in commemoration of Dr. Bigelow of Boston, author of the Ftorula BostoniensiSy and of the American Medical Botany. Gen. Char., ^c. i^/owe?'* unisexual, dioecious.—Male flowers. Cffl^.r minute, in 4 deep segments. Stamens 2—3.—Female flowers. Calyx infeiior, in i deep segments, deciduous. Style short. Stigma capitate, depressed. Fruit pulpy, oval, oblong. {G. Don.) Leaves simple, opposite, or nearly so, exstipulate, deciduous ; entire. Flowers axillary, fascicled, bracteated, minute Shrubs, deciduous, natives of North America, with the aspect of the common privet. Propagated by cuttings, and quite hardy. S ]. B. iiGu'sTRiNA Willd. The Privet-like Borya. Identification. Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 711.; Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., vol. 5. Synonymes. Ad&lia /igCistrina Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. 2. p. 224.; Bigeldvia Zigtistrina Smith in Bees's Cyclop. Addenda. The Sexes. The plants bearing this name in Loddiges's arboretum have not yet flowered. Eng
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