5 ESSSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



three parts at top. Before the feeds 

 are ripe^ it contains three cells j but 

 when the feeds are ripe, the divifions 

 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 mofl 

 of them are about as thick as the ftalk; 

 they are white and branched j 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-ftalks, are oval-fliap'd, about half 

 as long as they are broad, broadefl in 

 the middle, are fmooth, have a rib a- 

 long the middle, with fmall tranfpa- 

 rent veins extending from it towards 

 the edges, and the edges are intire. 

 The flowers are of a pale red colour ; they 

 ftand in clufters on the top of the ftalk 



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