. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . cordate-ovate, opposite; green, and nearly4s 1328 AUBORETUAl AND FUUTICETUM. PART III. glabrous upon the upper surface; upon the under one stellat
. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . cordate-ovate, opposite; green, and nearly4s 1328 AUBORETUAl AND FUUTICETUM. PART III. glabrous upon the upper surface; upon the under one stellately pilose,silvery, and scaly; the scales rusty, deciduous. Branches disposed in upright racemes between the firstleaves, and of half the length of these. (Nutt., Willd.,and obs.) A deciduous shrub, a native of North Ame-rica, on the borders of lakes, in the western parts ofthe state of New York, in Canada, and along the to its source, where it grows to the heightof 6 ft. or 8 ft. It has been in cultivation, in Britishgardens, since 1759, but is not frequent in fruit is sweetish, but scarcely eatable. A plant ofthis species, in the Cambridge Botanic Garden, is athinly branched shrub, about 5 ft. high, and not strikingin its general aspect; the plant in the Hackney arbo-retum is about the same height; one in the arboretumat Kew is only 3 ft. high. One in the TwickenhamBotanic Garden is 4 ft. CHAP. XCVIII. OF THE HARDY AND HALF-HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THEORDER .^RISTOLOCHIACE^, Those of which we shall treat are included in the genus vlristolochia L., which has the following characters : — i^RiSTOLO^CHiA L. Calyx of some other colour than green, and in colour andtexture resembhng a corolla; in its lowest part connate with the ovary;inflated above this part, then tubular, and ending in an expanded border,which has 3 segments, and these are valvate in aestivation. Stamens 6, ad-hering to the style and stigmas. Style 1. Stigmas 6
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