“" -DE€ANDRIA DECAGYNIM - BO 
it continues throughout the moutitains to Georgia, most- 
ly upon ‘the shelvings of rocks and «}so upon the trunks 
of decayed trees on the hanks of the Ohio, &c. 9. ternas 
gs tum. Generally accompanying the ‘preceding. 3. steno- 
Sg fretalum. Pu.” Powards the ‘Columbia. 4, telepiaoides. 
Scarcely distinet from S$. Telephinm. ‘ 
Almost exclusively an European genus, 
523. *DIAMORPHA.} i 
Calix 4-cleft. Petals4. Capsule opcning-ex- 
ternally, 4-celled, cuspidate, cusps subulate, di+ 
vergent; cells about 4-seedeil, 
A very smal} succulent biennial, verticillately branched 
from the base; branches 3 or 4, ‘lowers minute, cymdse, 
terminal; Jeaves alternate subteretc. 
Spsesgs. 1.D. pusitla, Sedun pusilla. Miche1.p. i 
E 276. _Tiilea cymosa, of the present publicationywhich se@ >” 
p. 110, it is hotvever very distinct from thater any other 
: genus with which T am acquainted. The capsule is at 
: length coriaceous, its summit nearly flat, with 4 horizon- 
tal diverging subulate cusps, the cells uniforinly 4 are ¢a-- 
rinate and open externally. Although’ the frnit may be. 
considered as 4 ingrafied capsules, they are never at any 
period separable.” - ge ee 
Notrz, ‘This genus should have been placed in Octan- — 
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dria Letragynia. S 
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Ornner VI.—DECAGYNIA. eae 
$24. PHYTOLACCA. ZL. (Poke. Sak pee | 
Catia 5-leaved, petaloid. Berry superior, 
19-celled, 10-seeded. ae | 
Herbaceous, rately shrubby; flowers racemose, racemes. 
often opposite to the leaves, rarcly axillary; leaves acute, 
mostly lanceolate. Styles 5, 7, 8, and 10: stamina 7, 8, to ~ <4 
a 
se SE 1. P. decandia. The young sheots when 
boiled form an article of diet, while the full grown plang 
proves a drastic purgative. A tincture of the ripe berries 
: iapopSn, deformed, or contrary formed; in reference _ 
oe hay ‘oui. hich ee aomed differentiy and contrary one 
— yest of the SeMPERVIVE- sa 
