908 MONOECIA. en. 
Herbaceous, rarely shrubby o or r arborescent, and oftew 
ex btm plants; leaves stipulate, opposite or alternate 
ers spiked or glomerate, axillary, or sometimes partly 
terminal and cymose, 
Species. 1. U. pumila. 2. urens. 3. divica. These 2 
last are merely naturalized. 4. procera. 5. chamedrioides, 
Pu. 6. gracilis. 7.capitata? Ows. Leaves opposite, ovate, 
acuminate, dentate and scabrous, petioles short; glomeruli 
spiked, spikes solitary, comose. Male calix 4-parted; 
stamina at first incurved, the anthers retained by a cen- 
tral ovoid gland, —- length with an elastic spring; 
stigma 1; germ oraie. Has. On the banks 
of the Delaware, near common; aipen ae 
* taken-for a pag 8. Gvariecata. 9. canadensis. 'T 
2 last species afford a very strong hemp. 
The principal part of this extensive gr ee containing i 
near 80 species, is indigenous ta the t ical parts of 
America, with India and the islands of the Pacific, there Z 
are also species in Europe and at the Cape of Good Hope. A 
42, PARIEFARIA. L. (Pellitory.) 
owers- poly gamous.—_HERMAPHRODITE.- 
"alin 4-cleft. Corolla none. Stamina elastic. 
Style1. Sced 1, superior. Frm. Calia 2-leaved. 
ed covered by the dey and elongated calix. d 
Herbaceous; leaves alternate or opposite sometimés FE 
thout stipules; flowers glemerate, axillary. ae 
1. P. penne! Also indigenous to Lou: < 
Leaves roundish-ovate, obtuse, aS { 
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