Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . ons of American plants. They are allies ofthe witch-hazels, and their flowers appear before the leaves in bottle-brush like spikes terminating short branches. Their sole beauty is in thenumerous long stamens. There are no petals, and the seed-vessel is adowny, hard-shcllcd capsule, opening at the top and containing twoseeds. 560 FOTHERGILLA F. Garden I, Murray. (F. alnifolia, LinmcusJiL, Bot. Mag., t. 1341 ; F. Carolina, Britlon.) A deciduous shrub of thin hal^it, rarely more than 2 or 3 ft. high, withslender, crooked, often rather weak and spread
Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . ons of American plants. They are allies ofthe witch-hazels, and their flowers appear before the leaves in bottle-brush like spikes terminating short branches. Their sole beauty is in thenumerous long stamens. There are no petals, and the seed-vessel is adowny, hard-shcllcd capsule, opening at the top and containing twoseeds. 560 FOTHERGILLA F. Garden I, Murray. (F. alnifolia, LinmcusJiL, Bot. Mag., t. 1341 ; F. Carolina, Britlon.) A deciduous shrub of thin hal^it, rarely more than 2 or 3 ft. high, withslender, crooked, often rather weak and spreading branches ; young twigscovered with white, stellate hairs. Leaves oval or obovate, i to 2^ ins. long,I to IJ ins. wide ; heart-shaped, rounded or tapering at the base, with severallarge unequal teeth above the middle, downy, and green or whitish beneath ;stalk I in. long, downy. Flowers in cylindrical terminal spikes, consistingchiefly of a mass, i to i^ ins. long, and about i in. through, of white stamenswith yellow anthers ; petals FoRSYTlIIA VIRIDISSIMA. Native of the south-eastern United States ; first discovered by Dr Gardenof Charlestown, , and introduced in 1765. It flowers on the nakedbranches in April and May, and is then very pretty and fragrant. Althoughhardy, this shrub is not robust. It does not like a heavy soil so muchas one of peat and sandy loam combined. The leaf is variable in shape, onaccount of which attempts have been made to differentiate two or threevarieties such as OBTUSA (Bot. Mag., 1341), with obovate bluntish leaves ;and ACUTA, with ovate, pointed leaves. The foliage often turns beautifulcrimson before falling. This species differs from the following in its muchsmaller stature, and in the inflorescence being from half to two-thirds aswide. FOTHERGILLA—FRAXINUS 561 F. MAJOR, Loddiges.(F. alnifolia var. major, Bot. Mag., t. 1342 ; F. monticola, Ashe:) A deciduous shrub, ultimately 6 to 8 ft. high, forming a rounded bush withmostly er
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