Arbres et arbustes, Hardy dans les îles britanniques . CACE^. Un arbuste ou petit arbre à feuilles caduques, de 20 m de hauteur, avec un roundedhead, dense de branches épineuses ; les jeunes pousses très lisse. Feuilles alternes, ovales, obovales, ou ovées ; soit ensemble ou avec trois arrondis peu profondes le lobesat apex ; à 4 ins. longue | 2 ins. de large ; vert foncé, lisse;Essuyage ?. à  % dans. longue, légèrement downy. Fleurs vert, entassés dans un littleball sur . ?, in. de diamètre, les sexes sur différentes plantes. Les balles areproduced pendant juillet, individuellement ou en paires (habituellement), à partir de la feuille-axilsof la croissance de l'année, chacune sur un Dow

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Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . CACE^. A deciduous shrub or small tree, 20 ft. high, with a dense, roundedhead of thorny branches; young shoots quite smooth. Leaves alternate, oval, obovate, or ovate; either entire or with three shallow rounded lobesat the apex; to 4 ins. long, | to 2 ins. wide; dark green, smooth;stalk ?. to % in. long, slightly downy. Flowers green, crowded in a littleball about .?, in. diameter, the sexes on different plants. The balls areproduced during July, either singly or (usually) in pairs, from the leaf-axilsof the current years growth, each on a downy stalk in. long. Themale tree only appears to be in cultivation, and a head of fruit has notyet been produced in this country; but it is an elliptical, hard, shiningmass ij ins. broad and i in. long, as seen in wild specimens. Native of China, where it is widely spread; introduced to Britain in1872. This tree, which is nearly allied to the Osage orange, but differsin flowering on the current seasons growth, in its fewer-veined leaves, and. CUNNINGHAMIA SINENSIS. 1.1 [Fare p 441. CUDRANTA-CUPRESSUS 441 very much in the fruits, is perfectly hardy, and flowers frequently at Kew.Its flowers are of no ornament, and the plant itself, although interestingboth economically and botanically, has no special merit for the garden.Its leaves are much used in China for feeding the silkworm on, beingconsidered as good for this purpose as the mulberry—to which also it isclosely related. CUNNIXGHAMIA sinensis, R. Brown. CONIFERS. An evergreen tree up to 150 ft. high in a wild state, but not yet halfas high in this country, with a scaling bark; young wood hidden on theupper side by the bases of the densely packed leaves, pale green andsmooth beneath. Leaves persistent about five years, springing equallyfrom all round the stem, but twisted at the stalkless base so as to comeinto two opposite, spreading, horizontal ranks; they are linear-lanceolate, I to 2} ins. long, ~ to f in. wide; minutel

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