ABRUS. 



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Var patula Raf. Autikon 11. Branches 



spreading, leaves obtuse, entire hardly glauce- 



ous.— Cumberland mts. Spreading Fir. _ 



8. A. BALSA3I1FERA Michaux. Balsam Fir- 



9. A. FRASERi Raf. Pinus Pursh. Double 



Spruce Fir. 



10. A. CANADENSIS Mx. Common Spruce 



lir. 



11. A. NIGRA Raf. A. denticulata Mx. Pinus 

 nigra. Aiton. Black SpruceFir. 



12. A. RUBRA Raf. Pinus Lambert. Red 

 Spruee Fir. 



13. A. ALBA Mx. Pinus Lambert. White 

 Spruce Fir. All these dwindle to dwarf vari- 

 eties on the White mts. and in North Canada. 



ABRUS. This tropical Genus extends to 

 Florida ; but our Sp. has not been described ; 

 the A. precatorius is said to have 3 varieties 

 with red, white and yellow seeds. They must 

 be again compared, also, the Asiatic, AntiUian 

 and Floridan plants. Linneus once mixt those 

 plants with the Glycine. 



ABUTILON. Tournefort, Mahinda Dil- 

 len, Sida Linneus &c. This good old Genus 

 hardly preserved except by Adanson, is per- 

 fectly distinct from Sida by the many truncate 

 and 3 seeded capsides around a hollow in a 

 stellate and campanulate form, 10 to 20 with as 

 many styles, the Sida having only 5. There 

 are many species of it ; not yet well distin- 

 guished, perhaps all the multicapular Sidas of 

 Linneus belong to it, or to the Genus Dia- 



desma. 



1. A. MOLLissiMUM Raf. A cordatum Med. 

 flora. Autikon. 12. Soft like velvet, leaves or- 

 bicular cordate acuminate, erose crenulate, 

 no long petiols ; peduncles axillary pauciflore 



