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MONOECIA TRIANDRIA 



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panicles, perhaps most of the early flowers sterile, the later fertUe, branches 

 of the panicle very hispid. Calyx hairy. Seed oblique, resembling much one 

 joint of the pods of the Hedysarum. , . , . 



The fibres of the two last described species are so strong that it has been 

 strenuously proposed to substitute them in many cases for hemp. 



Grows in Carolina along the mountain streams, Pursh. I have not seen 

 this species in the maritime districts of Carolina or Georgia. 



Flowers July — August. 



MORUS. Gen. Pl. 1424. 



Masculi. Calyx 4 



parlitus 



Foem 



phyll 



Corolla 0. 

 n. Calyx 4 

 Corolla 



Ca. 



S terile Jlorets 

 lyx 4-parted. Corolla 0. 

 Fertile Jlorets, Ca. 



Styli 2. Calyx b 



lyx 



4-leaved. Corolla 



0. 



Styles 2. 



tus. 



Semen 1 



berry formed 



Calyx 

 Seed 1 . 



I. Alba. 



M. foliis profuiidc cor- 

 datis, basi ina3qiialibuS5 

 bvatis lobatisve, inae- 

 qualiter serratis, laevi- 

 usculis. 



Leaves deeply cor- 



date, unequ 



at base, 



ovate and lobed, un- 

 equally serrate, nearly 



smooth. 



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Sp. pl. 4. p. 3G8. Nutt. 2. p. 209. 



native 



now 



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Leaver undivided, shining, thin. Flowers monoecious. ,. , . 



entirely naturalized m 



this country. Around the plantations in the low country it occurs, I tbin ? 

 more frequently than our native species. It grows from twenty-five to i / 

 feet high, and sometimes two to three feet in diameter ^*^ --^-tdiar mn - 

 bitant, the silk worm, thrives equally well. 

 Flowers March. 



Its peculiar 



2. Rubra. 



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U. foliis cordatis, o- 1 Leaves cordate, o- 

 vatis, acuminatis trilo- | vate, acuminate, n^' 

 bisve, aequaliter serra- j quently three-lobed 



tls, scabris, subtus pu 



qually 



serrate 



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sea 



