no Dr. Goodenotgh and Mr. WoodwardV Observations on 



plants variat, nunc craflitiem pennas corviiva?, nunc anferinae mi- 

 noris sequans ; modo feme], modo bis iterumve ramofus — Rami 

 petiolorum funguntur vice, et foliis membranaceis, tenerrimis, fim- 

 plicibus, ovato-oblongis, obtufis, quorum margines elegantiffime un- 

 dulati funt, terminantur — Folium nervus crafTiufculus percurrit, 

 aliis minoribns oppofitis vel alternis ramofis, pinnatus ; nonnunquam 

 e ncrvo primario petiolus prodit, folium alterum quafi proliferum 

 formans — Fructification tubercula fphcerica pedunculata, atro-pur- 

 purca in petiolis, rarius in nervis foliorum fita. 



This plant may undoubtedly be confidered as the mod beautiful 

 of the whole genus. The elegant form, the waved margins, and 

 delicate veining of the leaves w T ill readily diftinguifh it from all its 

 congeners. The fubflance of the (tern is cartilaginous, that of the 

 leaves membranaceous, extremely thin and tender ; the whole is 

 generally diaphanous, though in a very advanced ftate the ftem is 

 fometimes opake. It frequently is only fimply branched ; the ftem 

 is then very Ihort, and bears a few leaves, each fupported on afhort 

 footftalk: others are very much branched, but in thefe the feparate 

 .branches foon terminate, and form footftalks to the leaves : in the 

 former (late it is well reprefented by Gmelin, and in the latter is 

 very well figured in FL Dan. The leaves vary from three or four 

 inches to a foot in length, and from half an inch to two or more in 

 breadth. The footftalk is nearly round, but is continued through 

 the leaf, where it is comprefTed, and forms a ftrong midrib, which 

 is pinnated with others very flender, and either fimple or branched' 

 at the bale. Thefe are fometimes alternate, but more frequently 

 oppofite, as reprefented in FL Dan. though they are very rarely fo 

 confpicuous, or fo much branched as in that figure. Sometimes 

 the leaf becomes proliferous, a footflalk arifing from the midrib, 



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