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). ss HEXANDRIA. TRIGYNIA, . 
ast. 
none. Capsule (utriculus?) subcarnose, i-ceiled, 
‘4 to 2-seeded, crowned by the persistent style. 
An aquatic plant; leaves without sheathing petioles; 
_ those of the stem demersed, opposite, digitate, complicate- 
ly and trichotomously divided, segments linear; floral 
leaves floating, alternate, orbicular, peltate, entire; flow- 
ers solitary, axillary. . ‘aaa 
Srecizs. 1. N. aquatica. The only species of the genus, 
us to the warmer parts of the U-S. and tropical 
America. The WV. pinnata of Mr. Pursh is-probably a va- 
_ ety, but certainly a very different plant from Floerkea. 
i a i x Ne i — * 
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2 Tale 
ars pro Je - 
per TII.—TRIGYNIA. 
339. SABAL. Adanson. (Small Fan-palm.) 
- Flowers hermaphrodite.—Spathes partial. 
Filaments of the stamina unconnected, thickish 
at the base. Drupe spherical, dry and cartila- 
_ ginous, i-seeded. Seed indurated. Embryon 
lateral. Ps | 
Stemless,or with a caudex sometimes a little elongated; 
rond palmate, fanshaped, stipe unarmed; flowers pani- 
ed (or the spadixf branched.) 
c1Es. 1, 8. .Adansoni. In troublesome abundance 
und New Orleans; but less frequent than other species 
in Georgia and Carolina—The frut is about the size and | 
: of black pepper, and almost of a horny consistence. 
_ The strips of the leaves are handwove or platted into va- 
rious utensils by the indigenes. There can be no reason 
to suppose that the fronds of this species cun be less ser- 
viceable for platting into hats than those of Chumerops 
_ palmetto, avery durable manutacture, and justly esteemed 
an London 
2. Histrix. Pursh, Flor. Am. 1. p. 240. under €hamerops- 
. The fronds undistinguishable from those of the preceding 
- species by any other character than the appearance of 
long axillary spines: the inflorescence has not yet-heen 
compared; its rare occurrence amidst so much of 8. Adan- 
_ _ ¢ There is, however, nothing similar to the spadix of the 
Azo1Des either in this or the following genus; a sophistical 
~ circumstance with which-many'of my readers will doubtless be 
