6 -ESSAYS anp OBSERVATIONS 
deep furrows along it, and opening 
at three parts at top. Before the 
feeds are ripe, it contains three cells; 
but, when the feeds are ripe, the di- 
vifions feparate at the axis, and it © 
contains but one cell. ; 
SEAT of the feed is three ridges (being the 
infide of the three furrows of the 
faid box) each with two rows of 
feeds. 
SEEDS are numerous, fmall, and oval- 
fhap’d. 
RooT is fibrous; but, tho’ fibrous, the 
moft of them are about as thick as 
the ftalk ; they are white and 
branched ; fome of them are like 
fine threads. 
STALK grows fingle, is round and fmooth, 
and is branched out oppofitely from 
the arm-pits of the leaves. 
Leaves ftand thinly in pairs oppofitely 
on the ftalk and branches, they have 
no leaf=f{talks, are oval-fhap’d, a- 
bout half as long as they are broad, 
broadeft in the middle, are fmooth, 
have a rib along the middle, with 
fmall 
