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upper Airfare is generally without hair : (he fubfianec of 

 the leave* is fomewhat membranaceous, and bears a rc- 

 fcmblanceto that of coffcc-lcavcs : at both tides, betwixt 

 I (ttpyJc, which)* clofcly adprcfled to the 

 branch : the peduncles fit commonly at the too of the 

 branches of the umbel, thefc branches being always di- 

 vided into three, of which the lad bears one Howcr only. 



ii.uc the flowen Citing in th« angle formed 

 by the leaves with the branches, and of thefc one fpecic* 

 has only one flower on the ]>eduncle. Where the pe- 

 duncle is divided into more ramifications, there arc two 

 (mall braelex at the larger, and one at the fmallcr. The 



-leafed, above the germen, corolliforai, in 

 the fame manner as in plant-, that have oppolitc leaves and 

 ftipules. Sometimes the calyx is only a kind of margin, 

 but always divided into five linall pointS,and much ihoitei 

 than the corol: the corol is funnel -form, monopctalous. 

 divided into five pans; the (lamina live, infertcd at the 

 middle of the interior part of the tube, being cither 

 Alerter than the tube, or of equal length with the corol ; 

 they are flcndcr anil creel : the germen is conical, and 

 bent down, with* pointed tip; the Ityle is thread-form, 

 of the length of the tfaumna ; the (tigma thicker, and 

 fomewhat bipartite : the fruit is an oblong Tnpfilrl\ opin- 

 ing in two pom. From both corner* of each part there 

 is a dilFcpiment feparated in the middle with a crevkc : 

 the feeds arc comprefled, and furrounded with a mem- 

 branaceous margin. All the fpecics arc natives of the 

 New World, one excepted, which was difcovcrcd by 

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