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5. LATIFOI.IA. BUOAD-LKAVr'I),. 



* Culm tiiree-sidcd, leafy, erect, even; kavcs '.jroau-lunccjlate, nerved ; ,flo\\'-- 

 ers panicled. > . . " 



This grass is a faihoifPin height ; culm uudiviJed ; leaves frotii one to two feet in 

 length, sheathing at the base, often au inch wide, fi/ldin^ biigitudinallv, rigid ; 

 slieaths acuminate in front. Panicles terminating, or from the axils of the upper 

 leaves erect, strict, somewhat branched ; hraucbleis aiteriKitc, with male an 1 female 

 flowers scattered, distinct, sub-sessile or pedicclled, having- a small leaf aUvays nndcr 

 the Boscules. Males terminating; ghime of the calyx throe or four-valved, twu yr 

 three-flowered; valves ovate, acute, keeled, permantnt, smooth; inner corcliine 

 glumes smaller, irarriiwer; filaments three, very minute. Females more numerous, 

 below the others ; glume four-valved, one-flovvereJ ; the two outer valves lanceolate, 

 the two inner broad-ovate, acuminate, permanent ; germ roundish ; style tnfid at the 

 top and permanent; stigmas refle.xed, villose, whitish; seed globular, somewhat 

 bony, marked with a whitish point standing out. It grows in raountsin woods. Sx, 



Hauts Tongues See Spi.eenwort. 

 H.AZLE-NuT Si'c Cob-Nbt. 



IIEAD-ACHE-WEED. HEDYOSMUM. 



Ci.. 21, OH. 7. Monoecia poljjandria. . Nat. or. 



Gen. char. Male calyx an ament without scales, covered on every side with sta- 

 mens ; there is no perianth, nor corolla, nor filaments ; the anthers are very 

 many, imbricately heaped together, upright, oblong, acuminate at the tip, con- 

 verging at the base into an oblong ament, and placed on a linear receptacle. Thfi 

 females solitary, on the same tree Calyx a one-leafed perianth, covering the 

 germ, three-toothed at the tip, teeth minute, upright; there is no corolla; the 

 pistil has an oblong germ, three-cornered ; a very short three-cornered style ; 

 stigma siiiijile, obtuse ; the pericarp is a berry, roundish, three-cornered, small, 

 superior; seed single, hard, three-sided, shining. Two species were discovered 

 by Svvartz in Jamaica. 



1. NUTANS. NODDIN. 



Stem shrubby ; branches loose ; leaves lanceplate-acuminate. 



The leaves of this plant have an aromatic odour, and, when bruised and smelled, arQ 

 -good for relieving pains in die head, whence the English name has been derived. 



2. ARBORESCENS. TREE-LIKE. 



Stem arborescent ; branches stiff, upright ; leaves ovate-lanceolate. 



- HEART PEAS. CARDIOSPERMUM. 



Cl. 8, OR. 5. Pcntandria trigynia. Nat. or. Trihilutx, 



Tbif 



