xMONOKCIA. rOLYAKDRIA. ^i7 



iix 4-toothed; g-erms or rather capsules 2, o-sided, 6- 

 seeded? each furnished with a proper S-toothed setaceous 

 calix, a short style and 3 stigmas; ovulie seated on a vil- 

 lous receptacle around a connmon axis vhich is connec- 

 ted above with the base of the style. 2. ferrvginea. 



Of this genus there is 1 species in Europe and another 

 in Terra del Fuego. 



754. CASTANEA. TourneprU (Chesrsut.) 



Polvj^amous — -Masc. Jlment naked, linear. 

 Corolla 5 or 6-parted. Stamina 10 to £vO. Fem, 

 Calix 5 or 6 -leaved, muricate. Germs 3. Stig- 

 ma pencillformed. JS^uts 3, included in thcechi- 

 nated caiix. 



Large or small trees; leaves oblong-lanceolate, mucro- 

 nately serrate; aments very long and axillary; nuts fari- 

 naceous. 



Species. 1. C. vesca,- ainenccna. Obs. Younger leaves 

 before expansion with tlie nerves pubesCv-nt beneath. 

 Masculine anient very long, partly erect and spreading, 

 interruptedly glonnerated, naked; clusters bibracteate 

 (bi-actes dissimilar) about 7 flowered, (.sometimes 6, rarely 

 5 or 10, and then with 20 stamina) flowers mostly dode- 

 candrous; calix (corolla, Willd) 6 parted, lateral,' iiivolu- 

 criform, segments subdiandrous; filaments of the stamiiia 

 much exserted. — Female aments 2 to 3 together, many- 

 flowered, thicker and shorter, fertile involucium solitarv, 

 the 2 or 3 upper ones abortive; flowers conglon!cr«tted, 

 ternate, involucrum of 3 bractes. Calix (or iivok-crum) 

 squamose and leafy, bracteate at the baae, about o-flow- 

 ered, at length muricate; corolla (proper calix?) tubuJu!-, 

 coarctate border irregular, 6 to 8 parted. Stigmas nujne: - 

 ous, corneous and shining, coalescing with th.e calix, ri:";!. 

 and v/hite, at the base pilose; infei-tile stamina abont'l.?, 

 very short, situated betwixt the calix and siigmas. Style 

 1. Nuts smaller than in the European variety. 2. pnmlla. 

 (Chinquapin). 



3. * alnifoHa. Very low and shrubby; leaves elliptic- 

 obovate, obtuse, macronately and incisely serrate, imdcr 

 side pubescent, middle nerve strigose, margin clliate. 

 Hab. In the dry and sandy forests of South Carolina, not 

 many miles from Charleston; scarce. Certainly vei'y distinct 

 from the preceding. Obs. Stem slender, and but little 

 branched, in my specitr.ens scarcely 12 inches high. 

 Leaves minutely petiolate, broadest toward^ the summit, 

 scrratures crt)v/ded, under surface minutely and uniform- 

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