25j6 ©gtandria. trigynia. 



panied by nodes. Leaves very few, sir.all and dista!:^ 

 racemes as in tije 2 otiier species dicholomous. Flowt is 

 greenish white, at f.rst minute, gradually augmenting- m 

 the fruit after the manner oi Binnex; segments uncqunl, 

 the larger oblong-ovate, the 2 smaller olten iiorizontul in 

 fruit. 



23. parvifdin Dioicous; stem shrubby; much branched^ 

 lejives cuneate-hnear, <^r spathulate-obovate, retuse, tor- 

 tuously-spreading; racemes spreading, very numerous, pe- 

 duncle minute, aiticuiated with the calix; tlie 2 smaller 

 divisions of the calix reflected in the fruit; fruit included. 

 Hab. On the sand-hills of Lynch creek, and around Wil- 

 mington, North Carolina, abundant. Obs. A small shrub, 

 about the size and form of Erica vulgaris, rarely ever 2 

 feet high; brandies brittle, brown, covered with the ves- 

 tiges of rejected stipules, innumerably branched; leaves 

 almost imbricately approximating and tortuous, variable 

 in breadth, opaque; flowers minute. 



The principal ])art of this genus, excepting the above, 

 is indigenous to Europe, and extending into Siberia (Asia). 

 There are also a few species m the Eftst Indies, Japau> 

 China and New Holland. 



an. BRBNICHIA. Gctrtner. 



Calix at length coriaceous, tubular and ven- 

 tricose, 5-cleft, angular at the base, and decur- 

 rent in the ditatcd peduncle. Corolla none. 

 Styles short; stigmas bifid. Seed 1, triquetrous, 

 inclosed hy the calix. reris^jerm lobed. (Stanii- 

 na 8 or 9, rarely 10). 



A clinibing shiub with alternate, cordate, acuminated 

 leaves; racemes, paniculated, bractes many flowered; ca- 

 lix enlarging and be com.lng suberose, elongated into a flut 

 and arched peduncle, attenuated and aiticuiated at its 

 base, deciduous at the articulation after the manner of the 

 whole order of Polygonese? The stem and leaves hiarti- 

 culate. Kmbryon inverted. 



Species. D. cirrhosa. The ordy species indigenous to 

 Georgia, Florida, and the Bahama islands. 



372. CARDIOSPERMUM. i. (Heart-seed.) 

 Calix 4-leaved. Petals 4. Leijanthium 4-leav- 

 ed, unequal. Capsule membranaceous, inflalrdi, 

 3 -lobed, 3-celled. Seeds round, marked nt the 

 hilura N\ith a heart .sha])ed spot., 



