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 PORTAREEESA POLYGYNIA. Ea7 
5. <A species perfectly distinct from the H. simplex of 
Michaux, which produces oblong-ovate leaves, partly - 
connate at the base, and always pressed close to the 
stem, the whole plant also, instead of being pilose, is co- 
vered with a short matted and somewhat scabrous pubes- 
cence. 24. procumbens. _ 
This vast genus of at least 100 species, is very widely 
dispersed over the world, extending throughout: Europe, 
we find species in Barbary, in the Levant, in Siberia, Ja- 
- pan, China, India, Guinea, Mexico, Peru, the islands of 
the Pacific, New Holland, and the southern f 
of Afvica. The whole genus appears to possess hice oe. me- 
dical properties in common with Pisméa, which affords 
- indeed, much more abundantly a yellow and pen 
_ gum, acting as a cathartic in doses of 7 or 
The Visméa guttifera of Surinam produces a kind so 
boge. 
ae ELODEA. Adanson. of ee ata 
Calix 5-parted, equal. Petals 5, claws nec- 
tariferous, Filaments 9 to 15, growing toge- _ 
ther in 3 parcels. Glands between the parcels. — 
Styles 3, divergent. Capsule ‘partly: Seclled, 
many-see 
Vegetation siiilar'to had the preceding genus, but 
the fluwers generally red. 
Species. 1. E. virginica. Hypericum virginicum, 
Willd. sp. pl. © 2/ tudulosa. 3. eens North Ame- 
rican genus. 
‘OxvER IH.—POLY GYNIA. 
s78, ILLICIUM. L. (Aniseed Tree.) 
Caliz G-leaved.. Petals 27 ina Bete. order. 
“Mapeules many, disposed in a Ppa a | 
Jpeg: (Petals also 6.) _ ‘ 2 
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