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SYMPHOllIA llACEMOSA. 



Snow-beny St. Peter's Wort. 



rENTANURIA. MoNOGYNIA. 



Class 5. Order 1. 



SvMpnORiA, formerly caWed Symphoricarpos; from Tv^fopiuj, to cluster 

 or accumulate, and Kapifos, fruit. 



Persoon Si/n. I. p. 214. Bot. Mag. 2211. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Cat. Perianth superior, five-parted. Cor. campanulate ; limb five- 

 cleft, obtuse ; fnu\ filled with hairs, below which the tube abounds 

 with honey. Slam, five, inserted at the upper part of the tube, 

 shorter than the corolla. Pist. Germ ovate, with two or three 

 small bracteas applied close to its base. Style filiform, length of 

 the corolla. Stigma obtuse. Per. Berry two-celled. Seeds one 

 in each cell, kidney-shaped, compressed. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Irregularly branched, terminated by corollas bearded within. 



A LOW bushy shrub ; bark of the branches brightish-brown. 

 Leaves opposite, round, ovate, with a mucro ; mostly quite 

 entire, but on the lower part of the shrub sometimes irregu- 

 larly notched, smooth, glaucous. Flowers grow on the slender 

 terminal branches in pairs, at first distant, but towards the 

 extremities crowded together, supported on very short pedi- 

 cles; sometunes the branches become iealy beyontl the flowers. 



