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OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Species. 1. M. ferruginea. In North California. 2. ¢/ahu- 
laris? Ons. Branches subverticillate. Leaves obovate-lan- 
ceolate, acute, petioles and — as well asthe younger | 
branches pilose, under side of the leaf glaucous, covered 
with a minute pubescence, upper side somewhat scabrous; 
under side of the midrib lined with about eight to ten 
distant tubercles, each terminated by an appressed pa- 
leaceous process, and respectively situated near the base 
of eaeh pair of lateral nerves. Flowers terminally fas- 
ciculated, peduncles glandularly pubescent, an inch and 
a half long. Calix crenate, minute, crenatures 4, Ciliates 
retuse. Capsule cylindric-ovate, short, 4-valved, coria- 
ec ous, receptacle with 4 alated angles, each angle semi- 
niferous and embraced by the 2 inflected margins of exch 
yalve. Seeds minute, livear-oblong, acute. 3. empetrifor- 
mis. 4. cerulea. These 2 last resemble Erica. No. 4. 
was the Erica ceruleu of Willdenow.—There is but an- 
' other genuine species of this genus, which is the J. poli- 
_— folia of Jussieu, in the north of Europe, almost peculiar to 
the mountains of the west of Ireland, extending also into 
France and Portugal. 
$66. ACER. L. (Maple.) 
Flowers mostly poly gamous.—Calix about 5- 
* cleft. Petals 5, or none. Samare 2, sometimes 
8, alated, united at the base, by abortion 1- 
seeded. 
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_. Large or small trees; leaves palmately lobed (in .1. 
‘undo, simply or doubly pseudo ternate); flowers lateral 
terminal, subcorymbose, racemose, or aggregate, and 
then subtended by an imbricated gemmaceous involucrum, 
with the pedicells 1-flowered. Calix sometimes petaloid. 
Species. 1. A. rudyum. Ons. Dioicous; calix petaloid 
ted, 8 to 12 parted; stamens about 5, in the male exsert- 
ed, having a globular gland at the base of each; segments 
of the hermaphrodite calix shorter and broader, stamens 
_ also shorter. Styles 2, long, recurved und pubescent on 
the upper surface. 
Flowers aggregated in 5s, surrounded 
of the corolla or germ,.as in A. rubrum; cepus clus- 
ters about 5-flowered, serene rg of the involucrum 
- Hae. Westward into U isiana.—These 
ae several others, are scarcely congeners with the 
