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Crass VIL—HEPTANDRIA. 
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Grver I.—MONOGYNIA. 
$57. TRIENTALIS. LZ. Tournf. (Chickweed 
Wintergreen.) 
Calix 7-leaved. Coralla 7-parted, equal, flat. 
1-celled, juiceless. Seeds many. (Stamina 
5, 6, 7 and 8.) 
_ Flower varying in the number of its parts. Stem simple, 
low; leaves collected at the summit of the stem; pedun- 
cles terminal, aggregated, 1-flowered. , 
Species. 1.7. europea, g. americana. Leaves lanceo- 
late, acuminate. Ons. The leaves of the American plant, 
on comparison, are longer, the flowers more frequently 
with 8 stamens than less, it copsequently ap- 
proaches to me ae Chiora. ra 
A genus of a single species, indigenous to Europe 
North America. ‘ 
$58. AESCULUS. L. (Horse-ehesnat. Buck- 
OFBe) 6 <> , 
Calix 1-leaved, ventricose. Corolla of 4 or 5 
unequal pubescent petals inserted upon the ca- 
lix. Capsule 3-celled. Seeds large, resembling 
chesnuts, . 
Trees or rarely shrubs with digitate leaves; flowers 
racemose and terminal, articulated upon the rachis. 
Srecias. 1.4. Pavia. Indigenous also to Brazil. 2. 
discolor, Pu. 3. flava. 4. glabra. 5. pallida. 6. macrosta- 
__ chya. The smallest and most ornamental of the American 
A North American genus with the exception of . Hip- 
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