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CROTON CASCARILLA 
CASCARILLA/Or 
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WILLOW-LEAVED CROTONT. 
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STNO NTMA 
Cafcarill 
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Pharm, Lond, Eff Hdinh 
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Elutheria di5ia. Ricino affinis odorifera fruticofa major, rofmarlnt 
folio, frudu tricocco albido. Sloaneyam. p, 133. tab, 86. Croton 
(RofmarinifoUufJt) foliis 
labris, fubtus arg 
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caule fniticofo, floribus fpicatis terminalibus. Mill, Didf. Croton 
lineare foliis linearibus inteo;errimis obtufis fubtus tomentofis, caule 
fruticofo. Alton. Horf. -Kew. vol. iii. p. 374. Jacqu'in Stirp^ 
Amerk, 2^6, tab, 162. Am, Acad, ^, p, j^ii. 
Clafs Monoecia. Ord, Monadelphia. Z. Gen, Plant, 1083. 
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EJ/l Gen, Ch, Masc, CaL cylindricus, 5-dentatus. 
. Cor, 5-petala. Stam, lo-ij. 
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Fem* ' Cul, polyphyllus^ Cor. o. ' Styli 3, bifidi. 
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Caps, 3-Iocularis. Sem, i. 
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Ep, Ch, 
C.' fol. lanceolatis acutis integerrimls petiolatis fubtus; 
tomentofis, caule arboreo. 
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THIS ihrub never rifes to any confiderable heiglit ; it fends off 
feveral round branches, and is covered with a brown bark, the external 
coat of which is white and rough : the leaves are long, narrow, entire, 
fomewhat pointed, placed on fhort footftalks, above of a bright green 
cpjour, beneath downy, and of a filvery whitenefs 5 the flipul 
fcaly leaves, are 
or 
narrow and 
ihaped ; the flowers are produced 
about July, in a long terminal fpike, and are both male and female : 
the male flowers are placed uppermofl:, and are furniflied with a 
ylindrical calyx, cut at its 
fi 
extremity 
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fmall, oval, and of a white or yellowifli 
five fegments ; the petals 
; 
the ftam 
are 
