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lix 4-toothed; germs or rather capsules 2, 3-sided, 6- 
‘seeded? each furnished with a proper 5-toothed setaceous 
calix, a short style and 3 stigmas; ovulz seated on a vil- 
Jous receptacle around a common axis which is connec- 
ted above with the base of the style. 2. Serruginea. te 7 
Of this genus there is 1 species in Europe and another = © 
in Terra del Fuego. “pee. si 
754. CASTANEA. Tournefort, (Chesnut.) . 
Polygamous.—Masc. Ament naked, linear. 
Corolla 5 or 6-parted. Stamina 10 to 20. Fem. ~ 
‘Calix 5 or 6-leaved, muricate. Germs 3. Slig- 
ma pencillformed. Nuts 3, included in the echi- 
Dated calix. — 
Large or small trees; leaves oblong-lanceolate, mucro- 
nately serrate; a very long and axillary; nuts fari- 
Species. 1. C. vesea; americana. Oss. Younger leayes 
before expansion with the nerves pubescent beneath. 
Masculine ament very long, partly erect and spreading, — 
interruptedly glomerated, naked; clusters bibracteate © 
(bractes dissimilar) about 7 flowered, (sometimes 6, rarel 
5 or 10, and then with 20 stamina) flowers mostly < 
candrous; calix (corolla, Willd) 6-parted, lateral, 
criform, segments subdiandrous; filaments of the st: 
much exserted.—Female aments 2 to 3 together, ‘man} 
flowered, thicker and shorter, fertile involucrum solitary, 
Be _ the 2or 3 upper ones abortive; flowers congiomerated, 
oe, ternate, involucrum of 3 bractes. Calix (or involucrum) 
a squamose and leafy, bracteate at the base, about 3-flow- 
ered, at length muricate; corolla (proper calix?) tubular, 
% s ewarctate border irregular, 6to8 parted. Stigmas aniee ‘ 
ous, corneous and shining, coalescing with the cal 
and white, at the base pi infert amit 
very short, situated > calix 
1, Nuts smaller than 
‘ , ees ¥ in) ae : ror » na. 
¢ C ot a Ve shr leaves elliptic. 
obovate, obiuse, mueronately and incisely serrate, unde 
side pubescent, middle nerve strigose, margin _cili 
Has. In thedry and sandy forests of South Caro: 
y miles tie yg a Cocina di 
~ from the preceding. Os. Stem slender, 
_ branched, i specimens 12 
Leaves 
