* 
$12 ICOSANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. 
face scabrous with minute aculei, the under smooth, 
glaucous or villous; younger branches more or less quad- 
rangulaz, flowers terminal, solitary, petaloid segments 
disposed nearly in 2 series, brownish, the interior ones of- 
ten staminiferous, and the innermost filaments- sometimes 
- Without anthers. ’ 
Species. 1.C. foridus, Ons. Leaves variable, broad 
oval, or oval-oblong, acute; villous on the under side; the 
wood and particularly the root strongly camphorated, so 
as to be calculated probably to produce that drug as abun- 
dantly'as Laurus camphora. Flowers at first dark brown, 
<a paler, in drying parting entirely with this color 
nd becoming olive green, agreeably scented, almost like 
ripe apples, similar to all the other North American spe- 
cies. Anthers and filaments minutely pubescent, the for- 
- mer glanduliferous at the summit, interior filaments with- 
> Out anthers, - Seeds brown, Neatly as large as horsebeans, 
~  Maked, smooth and shining, about 16 in each utriculus, of 
a foundish oblong form, marked with a longitudinal suture 
and a central hilum; shell hard and cartilaginous; peris- 
‘= perm none, or a small central portion gelatinizing when 
' Moistened; radicle descendant; cotyledones convolute, 
white and large, of an oleaginous bitter taste. Capsule 
» turbinate, as large as a small pear, marked with the vesti- 
es of the calycine laciniz, at length becoming perfectly 
ty with the seeds loose, but never opening. 
Z. Collins Esq. informs me that by cutting off the termi- 
- nal leaf-buds, after the usual season, a sticcession of flow- 
_* €?s may be obtained throughout the summer, every leaf- 
~ bud so extfacted being constantly succeeded by 2 flow- 
“ers... For oP vee Z. Collins has beens witness to the 
success of this experiment, showing in this genus the ve- 
ty intimate union which subsists betwixt the leaves and 
‘Singularly confluent flowers. From the rarity of fruit 
in the Calycanthi, even in their native mountains, we may 
almost assert, that this genus, notwithstanding the consi- 
milarity of its flowers, is in fact polygamous. 
2. glauens, On the declivities of bushy hills and the 
Margins of small streams near Lincolnton, (N. Carol.) 
&e, B. * obiongifoliue, leaves oblong-lanceolate, acu- 
.. @inate, under ae smooth and glaucous. Has. In the 
; ing Choma North Carolina, a permanent variety, hav- 
ing elongated leaves. 3. levigatus. Leaves scabrous a- 
. bove, green and smooth beheatiy 
_ A North American 
1 genus with the exception of C. pre- 
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