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256 ©  CTANDREA. TRIGYNM. 
....., panied by nodes. Leaves very few, small and. distant, 
__. ‘Facemes as in the 2 other species dichotomous. .. Flowers 
greenish white, at first minute, gradually augmenting in 
the fruit after the manner of Rumex; segments unequal, 
i larger oblong-ovate, the 2 smaller often horizontal in 
it. 
23. parvifolia. Dioicous; stem shrubby; much branched, 
leaves cuneate-linear, or spathulate-obovate, retuse, tor- 
tuously-spreading; racemes spreading, very numerous, pe- 
duncle minute, articulated with. the calix; the 2 smaller 
divisions of the calix reflected in the fruit; fruit included. 
~ Has. On the sand-hills of Lynch creek, and around Wi!- 
mington, North Carolina, abundant. Oxs. A smail shrub, 
about the size and form of Erica vulgaris, rarely ever 2 
- feet high; branches brittle, brown, covered with the ves- 
‘tiges of rejected stipules, innumerably branched; leaves 
ost imbricately approximating and tortuous, variable 
in breadth, opaque; flowers minute. 
The principal part of this genus, excepting the above, 
is indigenous to Europe, and extending into Siberia (Asia), 
There are also a few species in the East. Indies,,Japa.» 
‘China and New Holland. 
371. BRENICHIA. Geriner. 
? - Calixe at length coriaceous, tubular and ven- 
tricose, 5-cleft, angular at the base, and decur- 
rent im the dilated peduncle. Corolla none. 
_ Styles short; stigmas bifid. Seed 1, triquetrons, 
inclosed by the calix. Perisperm lobed. (Stami- 
na 8 or 9, rarely 10). AEB y 
A climbing shrub with alternate, cordate, aeuminated 
leaves; racemes, paniculated, bractes many flowered; ca- - 
fix enlarging and becoming suberose, elongated into a flat 
and arched peduncle, attenuated and articulated at its * 
base, deciduous at the articulation ice hee of the 
‘whole order of Polygonex? The stem and leaves inarti; 
ae ee eaaliven prorat mea ccctieuas 
sy Specres. B. ci oS species indigenous to 
” corgi i Flesida. and. the Sehatiannaee 4 
$72. CARDIOSPERMUM. L, (Heart-seed.) 
Calix 4-leaved. Petals 4. Lepanthium 4-leav- 
ed, unequal. Capsule membranaceous, inflated, 
3-lobed, 3-celled. Seeds round, marked at tho 
hilum with a heart-shaped spot. i 
