fertile soils. Height 30 ft. to 60 ft. Introduced
in 1818. Flowers yellowish green ; June. Fruit
resembling a large Seville orange; ripe in October.
Neither flowers nor fruit have yet been produced
in England.
The leaves are ovate acuminate, of a bright
shining green, broad, with a cuspidate point, 3or
3i inches long, and about 2 in. broad. The petiole
is" often 1 in. long. The spines are simple, rather
strong, about 1 in. in length, and produced in the
axils of the leaves. The fruit, when ripe, is of a
golden colour, and on the tree has a s[)lendid appearance
; but, though eatable, it does not appear to be
any where used for human food. 'I'he wood is of a
bright yellow, very fine-grained, elastic, and on tliat
account used by the southern tribes of the American
Indians for bows.
G enus IV.
1386. M. aurantiaca.
Fl'CUS Tourn. T h e F i g T r e e . Lin. Syst. Polygàmia Dioe'cia.
Idnitification. T o u rn .; T. Nees ab Esenbeck Gen. P l. Fl. Germ., fasc. 3. ; Willd. Sp. P1..4.
p . 1131.
Synonymes. Figuier, Fr. ; Feigenbaum, Ger. ; Fico, Ital.
Derivation. Some derive Ficus from fcecundus, on account of its abundant bearing ; and others
from sukos (Greek), or fa g (Hebrew), the names for the fig tree in those languages. The fig tree
has nearly the same name in all the European languages.
Gen. Char. Floiuci's monoecious, inserted upon the interior surface of a hollow
globular or pear-shaped fleshy receptacle, in whose tip i.s an orifice
closed with'small scales; those in the upper part male, the rest female.
—Male flowers. Calyx .3-parted. Stamens 3.—Female flowers. Calyx 5-cleft.
Stigmas 2. Fruit a utricle. {G. Don.)
Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, deciduous; lobed. Stipules large, convolute.
Flowers within the fruit. — Tree, deciduous ; native of the South
of Europe and Asia ; sap milky; cuttings in good soil.
Î ]. F. C a ' r i c a Z. Thecowiwon Fig Ti*ee.
Identificaiion. Lin. Sp., 1513. ; Willd. Sp., 4. p. 1131. ; N. Du Ham., 4. p. 198.
Synonymes. F- commùnis Bauh. Pin. 457. ; F. hùmilis and F. sylvéstris T ow n , In st. GG3. ; Figuier
commun, Fr. ; gemeine Feigenbaum, Ger.
Engravhigs. N. Du Ham., t. 53. ; the plate of this tree in Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. vii. ; and our
fig. 1387.
Spec. Char., 4c. Leaves palmate and subtrilobate ; rough above, pubescent
beneath. (ÌVilld.) A low deciduous tree. Asia, on the sea coast. Height
15 ft. to 30 ft. Cultivated in Britain from time immemorial.; and ripening
its fruit against walls, in the climate of London, in the month of September.
Varieties. Botanically, the common fig may be considered as existing in three
different sta te s:— I. Wild, in which the leaves are comparatively small,
and not much cut ; and the fruit small, and sometimes blue and sometimes
white. 2. Cultivated, with very large leaves, very deeply cut, such as the
Blue Ischia and the Brunswick fig, and other sorts; the fruit of some of
which is white, and of others dark. 3. Cultivated, with very large leaves,
not much cut, as the White Marseilles fig, and others with fruit of different
colours. Those who are disposed to go farther may form three subvarieties
under each of these heads, according as the fruit is blue or black, red or
purple, yellow, white, or green. The garden varieties are very numerous ;
LX V . a r t o c a ' r p e æ ; b o r y æ 7 1 3
1587. Ficus Càrica.
for which, and their treatment, see the Encyc. of Gard., and the Suburban
llorticultuiist.
G enus V.
BO'RY4 W. The B o r y a . Lin. Syst. Dioe'cia Di~Triandria.
711.; Ait. Hort. Kew., ea. z., voi o. . a , j
Amer. 2 p .223. ; Bigelbvfa Smith in Rees’s Cyclop. Addenda.
rBoru de St. Vincent, who visited the Mauritius and the Isle ot
Identfication. Willd. Sp. PL, 4 p. 711. ;K^w.,^ed._2.,v o ^ .
- K m \a Michx. Fl.Bor. Am e r.2. \
Smith, in Rees’s Cyclopedia, objects to the name of Bbrya
_ ,. V . . .1 1.. coma namr» tn iinnt npr
». Aueiia enion*. i—
Dérivation. Named in honour ot
Gen Char Src. rtfowrs unisexual, dioecious.—Ma,e flowers. Caii/ir minute,
in' 4, deep segments. Stamens 2— 3.— Female flowers. Calyx inferior, in
4. deep segments, deciduous.^ Style short. Stigma capitate, depressed.
Fruit pnliiv, oval, oblong. (G. Don.)
Leaves simple, opposite, or nearly so, exstipulate, deciduous ; en/ie.
Fhwcrs axillary, fascicled, bracteated, minute. — bhriibs, deciduous, natives
of North America, with the aspect of the common privet. Propagated by
cuttings, and quite hardy.
3fe 1. 6. LIGU'STRINA Willd. The Privet-like Borya.
■ « ito lr ln a SmU,. Jn
r / f s S ? t L Î l l S t a r l n g this name in LoddiBes's arhoretun. have not yet flowered.
Engraving. Ourfig. 1388. from a living specimen.
Spec. Char., f r . In habit and leaves somewhat re/mbling iigii/rum vnl-
gàre L . Leaves with very .short petioles, and disks that are 1 / r e o 'f
oblong, entire, somewhat membranous. Fruit rather shortly ovate. (AKG» )
An erect deciduous shrub. North A/erica, ™ thickets ™ers, in the
countries ofthe Illinois, Tennessee, &c. Height 5ft. to 10ft. Introd. 1812.
Flowers greenish ; July and August.
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