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S. betulifolia and S. chamaedrifolia flexuosa are worthy forms of free growth and bearing white flowers. STAPHYLEA COLCHICA. Colchican Bladder Nut. Caucasus. This is a very distinct shrub, about 6 feet high, with large clusters of showy white flowers. Being quite hardy, and very ornamental, this species is worthy the attention of planters. S. PINNATA. Job's Tears, or St. Anthony's Nut.
The only tree in this country in a wild state, is growing in Bewdley Forest, Worcester-shire. SPARTIUM Scoparium. BROOM. Is a very ornamental plant, and is used for making besoms. It was once considered as a specific in the cure of dropsy, but is now seldom used for medicial purposes. STAPHYLEA pinnata. BLADDER-NUT. This is not a common plant in this country.
Many vegetable seeds are surrounded with air in their pods or receptacles, as peas, the fruit of staphylea, and lichnis vesicaria; but it is probable, that those seeds, after they are shed, as well as the spawn of fish, by the situation of the former on or near the moist and aerated surface of the earth, and of the latter in the ever-changing and ventilated water, may not be in need of an apparatus for the oxygenation of their first blood, before the leaves of one, and the gills of the other, are produced for this purpose.
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