Genus NEGUNDO, Moench. 



ueneric Characters. Sexes dioecious. Flowers without a corolla. Calyx with 4 5 unequal teeth. 

 Male flowers upon thread-shaped pedicels, and disposed in fascicles ; anthers 4 5 linear, sessile. 

 Female flowers disposed in racemes. Leaves impari-pinnately divided. De Candolle, Prodromus 



|HIS genus was constituted by Moench from the Acer negundo of 

 Linnaeus, and comprises three species, one native of Cochin- 

 China, one of CaUfornia, and the other of Canada and the United 

 States. The Dobinea vulgaris, a hardy shrub, native of Nepal, 

 with elliptical, oblong, acutely-serrated leaves, belongs to the 

 same natural family. No other genus, has hitherto been discov- 

 ered, or recorded as belonging to the order Aceracae, either of a hardy or tender 

 nature. 



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