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* 202 -PENTANORIA. TRIGYNIA. 
_. Spectes. 1. P. aquatica. Principally confined to the 
~ western side of the Alleghany mountains. 
Of this genus there is another species on the borders 
of the Caspian sea. 
289. CELTIS. L. (Nettle-tree, Hackberry.) 
Polygamous,—Calix 5-parted. - Corolla none. 
Styles thickish, divaricate. Drupe 1-seeded. 
Masculine flowers (inferior) calix 6-parted, with 
= Trees or rarely shrubs; leaves mostly oblique; flowers 
subsolitary or racemose. Filaments of the bark elastic? 
- Species. 1. C. occidentalis. Calix of the male flower 
5-parted; stamina 5. The bark of this species is often 
remarkably rimose. 8. integrifolia. Leaves entire; bark 
of the tree not rimose-—On the banks of the Mississippi, 
near to St. Louis. 2. crassifolia. Is not this a mere vari- 
ety of C. occidentalis, in which the young plants have al- 
ways leaves that are scabrous on either side. 3. tenut- 
~  folia. C. pumila, Pursh 1. p. 200? A low bush, in the 
_ ‘Mountains of Virginia, flowering ai the height of 2 feet. : 
Leaves nearly as broad as long, now and then without 
serratures, often cordate-ovate, very little acuminated and 
almost perfectly smooth on both sides. Berries solitary, 
; brown and glaucous. 
Of this small genus there is 1 species indigenous to 
Barbary and the south of Europe, 1 to the Levant, 1-te 
the East Indiés, 1to China, and 2 to the West Indies. 
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: Onver II.—TRIGYNIA. 
290. VIBURNUM. I. 
Calix small, 5-parted, superior, Corolla 
- small, campanulate, 5-cleft, Berry or drupe 
+ Shrubs with opposite leaves, naked at the base; flowers 
terminal i el follies ae ¥ 
‘Species. , ium. 2. pyrifolium. 3. Lentage. 
“pubescens. 11. Lantano’- 
14, Oxycoceus, 15. edule. 
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