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HYDRANGEA QUERCIFOLIA,. Oaxk-LEAVED 
HYDRANGEA. 
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Clafs and Order. 
DECANDRIA Di1GYNIA, 
Generic Charaéer. 
Cal. fuperus, 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-petala. Cap/. 2-locularis, 
2-roftris, foramine inter cornua dehifcens. 
Specific Charafer and Synonyms. 
HYDRANGEA quercifolia ; foliis lobatis fubtus tomentofis, 
floribus paniculatis: terminalibus fterilibus 
maximis. . 
HYDRANGEA quercifolia ; cymis radiatis, foliis oblongis 
finuato-lobatis dentatis. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 2.— 
=. p-. 634. Bartram Trav. p. 382. is 
HYDRANGEA radiata; foliis lobatis, fubtus tomentofis. 
Smith Ic. Pitt. p. 12. 
~Descr. Stem fhrubby: bark brown, deciduous. Leaves 
ppofite, generally feven-lobed: lobes pointed, toothed, to- 
mentofe on the under fide, efpecially when young. Inflore/cence 
4 compound panicle: flowers white, growing on fhort-pedicles 
Colle€ted into {mall cymes on the fides of the branches of the 
Panicles ; many of the branches are terminated with one, two, 
fometimes three large fterile flowers, on long pedicles ; but 
from the fhape of the panicle thefe fterile flowers do not form 
a radius, as in Hyprancea radiata. The fertile flowers 
Confift of a fuperior fmall five-parted calyx ; a corolla of five 
Petals larger than the calyx, deciduous; /famens ten, inferted 
into the crown of the germen: anthers white, roundifh ; ger- _ 
men nearly globular, two-celled, with many ovula in each; : 
‘§mas two, rarely three, large, obovate, obtufe. In the © 
“erile flowers the calyx is very much enlarged, and confifts of 
four? 
