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DIOECIA HEXANDRIA. 



2. Verticillatus. Lin. 



p. 



f oil i s 



^^ 



deciduis, 



ovalibus, acummatis, 

 serratis, subtus pubes- 

 centibus, flqribus 6-fi- 

 dh, masculis axillari- 

 biis umbelliiliforraibus, 

 foeraineis aggregatis. 



Leaves decfduous, 

 oval, acuminate, ser- 

 rate, pubescent under 

 neath; flowers 6-cIeft, 

 the sterile axillary, um- 

 bellate, the fertile clus- 

 tered. 



Sp. pi. 2. p. 225. Puish. T, p. 220. Nutt. 1. p. 213. 



P. GronovJi, Mich. 2. p. 236. 



Leaves on petioles 



A large slirub sometimes becoming a small tree, 

 about five lines long, oval, acuminate, finely serrate, pubescent, somewhat 

 hairy underneath. Flowers hexandrous. The sterile distinctly axillary in 

 small umbellate clusters, the fertile kw, aggregated, when in fruit commonly 



solitary. Berries red. . 



Nearly allied certainly to the preceding species, but differs somewhat in 

 the shape and serratures of the leaves, in its hexandrous flowers, and the 

 umbellate structure of its sterile florets. 



T 



Grows in light fertile soils. 

 Flowers April — May. 



1*^^ 



' -JH 



3. Integrifolia. 



P. 



foliis 



ovalibus 



deciduis, 



? 



inteoferrimis, 



itiucronatis, petiolatis, 



utrinque glabris; flori- 

 bus foemineis solitariis, 



longe 



Niilt. 



pedunculatis. 



Leaves deciduous, 



oval 



entire, 



mucro- 



nate, on petioles, gla- 

 brous on each surface; 

 fertile florets solitary, 

 on long peduncles. 



Ambigu 



p. 213. 



A small tree with a smooth whitish bark. Leaves oval, always entire, 

 about one and a half inches long and one inch wide, on petioles near hall a 

 inch long. Peduncles of the fruit often two inches in length. Nutt. 



This species I have inserted from Mr. Nuttall, who considers it 3S trie 



I have described under that name w, 



d therefore proba- 



bigu 



The 



one 



however, certainly the Cassine Caroliniana of Walter, an 

 hly the plant of Michaux. agreeing also in the ^partitione q"*'**^^^^(f '. t^-. 

 The habitat is not mentioned, but it probably belongs to the Sout^r 



States. 



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