= MONGECIA, POLYANDRIA. 
ly pubescent, but not tomentose, nerves very prominent; 
Tam unacquainted, it appears to be entirely a southern 
_ Species, and probably more perfect in Georgia. C. nana 
of Muhl. Catal. and Herb. appears to be little more oe 
a dwarf y variety of C. vesea. 
- The original species, C. vesea, or common Chesnut, ae 
the only one of the genus except the above, is indigenous 
to the south of Europe, where sometimes by an acciden- 
ial union of stems it presents the most enormous trunk of 
an existing yegetable, on Mount tna there did or does 
t one of these vegetable monsters 160 feet in 
Mase. Ament fmabricaledy? wiles peltate, 8- 
flowered. Calix consisting of scales. Corolla 
none. Stamina 10 to 12. Fem. Calix scales 2- 
' flowered. Corollanone. Seed 1, alated, 2 
_. ‘Trees or more rarely shrubs; aments axillary; leaves 
ate and serrate, more rarely obovate as in Alnus, from 
which this genus is scarcely distinct.—Bark often “tena- 
with papyraceous exfoliations. 
. B. agp gr Leaves deltoid, acuminate. 
4. papyracea. (Canoe Birch.) Bark 
» but more particularly for 
and another in Terra del Fuego, 
PINUS. L. (Horn-beam Tree.) _ 
ted. Mase. Scales of the calie 
FE Caliee 
length 15 to 20 lines, breadth 10 to 12 lines; with the fruit | 
rable, employed by the savages for 
€or ‘Siberia, excepting one species in 
