in botany: A genus of plants belonging to the class of polyandria, and order of monogynia; and in the natural system ranging under the 50th order, Amentaceae. The corolla is pentapetalous; the calyx pentaphyllous and deciduous; the stigma is perforated;

(A) This garden was first established by the company in 1673; and having after that period been stocked by them with a great variety of plants, for the improvement of botany, Sir Hans, in order to encourage so serviceable an undertaking, granted to the company the inheritance of it, being part of his estate and manor of Chelsea, on condition that it should be forever preserved as a physic garden. As a proof of its being so maintained, he obliged the company, in consideration of the said grant, to present yearly to the Royal Society, in one of their weekly meetings, fifty specimens of plants that had grown in the garden the preceding year, and which were all to be specifically distinct from each other, until the number of two thousand should be completed. This number was completed in the year 1761. In 1733 the company erected a marble statue of Sir Hans, executed by Rysbrac, which is placed upon a pedestal in the centre of the garden, with a Latin inscription, expressing his donation, and the design and advantages of it. perforated; the berry is corticose, echinatcd, polyspermous, and gaping. There are two species, the dentata and emarginata.

SLOE. See PRUNUS.