Coriaria

Coriaria - This group now contains two or three new and handsome kinds of value. The peculiarity of these shrubs is in the formation of their berry-like fruits. The flowers are small and inconspicuous, with scale-like petals of green, yellow, brown, or pink, and the sexes mostly apart, though found upon the same plant. After flowering, however, the tiny petals thicken and swell into a juicy fruit-like envelope surrounding the seeds, and handsome when brilliantly colored, as in the finer kinds. While these fruits are of tempting appearance, they are all more or less poisonous-a fact to be borne in mind by planters. All the kinds are of the easiest culture in moist, loamy soils, the best kinds being hardy (at least, at the root), and growing again if cut down by frost. The following are in cultivation:—

Caesalpinia jamesii (Torr. & Gray) Fisher

Rhus glabra smooth sumac

Rhus copallinum flameleaf sumac

Rhus aromatica

Rhus aromatica

Rhus glabra

Coriaria Japonica - A handsome shrub with red-brown woody stems 8 or 10 feet high. The leaves come in opposite pairs arranged regularly along either side of the stem, while the tiny flowers, of a pretty pink or coral-red, appear early in June as racemes of 1 1/2 to 3 inches upon the stem of the previous year. The fruits are round and bright red.

Coriaria Nepalensis - A stout rambling shrub of nearly 20 feet, with woody stems bearing three-nerved leaves and axillary clusters of flowers and fruit, which distinguish it at once from C. terminalis, with which, however, it was long confused. The flowers are brown, appearing in May, and followed by black fruits. In the south-west of England and along the south coast, this plant succeeds in the open, but inland it makes little progress. In the variety maxima, the fruits are larger and of a bluish color. Himalayas, China, and Japan.

Coriaria Rustifolia - a tall shrubby climber of 10 to 20 feet, with square stems and slender arching shoots, covered with fresh green foliage and sprays of tiny green flowers drooping prettily from the leaf-axils. It is hardy even into Scotland, where it dies down like an herbaceous perennial. The flowers come in slender racemes of 6 to 12 inches, and towards autumn the tiny green petals swell into juicy fruits, of a rich purple color in September and October, when this is one of the most striking of wall or border plants. New Zealand.

Coriaria Torminalis - A plant from the Thibetan frontier of China, and quite hardy in the south of Britain at least, making a shrubby root-stock and her-baceous stems of 2 or 3 feet, which die back each winter. The bark is rough and warty, and the shoots thickly set with pairs of rounded, dull green leaves. The brown and yellow flowers appear in long racemes from the tips of the shoots, differing in this from other kinds, in which they burst from the leaf-axils. These inconspicuous flowers give place to glossy, orange-yellow fruits of great beauty, crowded upon long tapering spikes of 6 to 9 inches. These last well upon the plant, but are worthless for cutting.

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