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sinocth ; peduncles shorter than the petioles, round, smooth, many-flowered ; fiowen; 

 peclicelled, disposed in a iiitle' umbel, whitish green ; .there are a few minute scales at 

 the base of the umbels j calyx cut round at the base; border five-cleft, deciduous,- 

 xegmeYits ovate, spreading ; petals or scaieleis inserted between the se>;ment:i of the 

 c?Jvs,,iniaute, vaulted ; filaments the iengtii of the petals, and concealed under them ; 

 gei-m ronsdish, placed at the base of the calyx, or on the receptacle ; style three-parted 

 to the base ; stigmas biuat. Fruit placect at the base of the calyx, sab-tricoccoas, 

 three-celled, covered with a juiceless skin, and, when that hursts,, divisible into three 

 tJarts, like those of a capsule, opening widxin' and at the top ; with membranaceou:^ 

 partitions ; seeds solitary, oblong, flatted a little, smooth, black. The fruit, when 

 rioe, and without the skiin, being cut transversely above the middle, appears to be tri- 

 capsular and sex-valvular. It is very nearly allied to the co/M.6r/!MS, but that has the 

 branchlets, petioles, and pedunclesj, ferruginQU^-t;oiantose ;, the style three-sided, 

 tnfidoniy at thQ,top.- Ji'w, '- ' - ' '' . 



Near the~mat^ia of the leaflets is^a sm.aii gland on each side, and beyond this tliere 

 is one, sometimes two or more, at uncertain distances. It happens frequently that 

 there arc three glands on one side and only one on the other, which may be plainly 

 seen on the under side of the leaf with, the naked eye. In the centre of the cup may 

 also be seen a large depressed nectarmro, divided by so many eccentric furrows into 

 .five equal pariSj bedewed with nectar, which the bees and other insects feed upon. 

 The nectarinm is permanent, and seems united or fixed to the b-ise of the perianth, and 

 forming a rim or. border round the fruit, while the base of the cup adhered to its 

 iiottom. The tree grows iiibout twelve feet high. 



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Browne calls' this the skrubhu rhnmnus with bilocular berries, but in the figure th'Q 

 fruit seems to be tricoccoas. In Martyn's Dictionary this is also made ceanothus reti^ 

 tinattis. 



BUqK WHEAT. POLYGONUM. 



Cl. 8, OR. 3. Octandria dis-'onia. ~ Nat, OR. Holoracec?.' 

 GM. CHAR'^-yce Arsmart, ;?. 32. 



SCANDENS. CLIMBING. 



Fegofyninx scoiidens, seu volicbilis nigra major, (lore cipucid 7hem^ 

 branaceis, subrotundis compressis, Sloane, v. I, p. 138, t. 90, f. i. 



Leaves cordate ; stem erect, scandent. 

 This woodbine has round, red, succulent staik.s,' by which it winds and turns itself 

 round any tree or shrub it comes near, rismg seven or eight feet high. It has every 

 inch or half inch Wwards the top leaves growing oat of tiie stalk alternatively. They 

 have a quarter of an- inch long footstalks, are grass-green, juicy, smooth, thick, an 

 inch and a quarter long, and one inch over at the base, being of a triangular heart 

 figure. The dowers come out from the upper axils, they are very mau}', in spikes 

 three niches long, on a very short peduncle ; they are round, flat, sv/elled out in the 

 middle, and green, having a thin white merabraae round thejn, like a parsnip seed : 



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