286 APETALOUS EXOGENS 



agating myriads of trees to sell without stopping to inquire whew 

 they could be sold, or who would be likely to buy ! Of course, it 

 was not very long until the bubble burst; and the curious incident^ 

 of the hallucination now only serve 



" To point a moral, or adorn a tale." 



At some future day, and under different circumstances, it is quite 

 possible that a portion of our population may find the Silk-culture 

 an eligible business, and the Morus multicaulis a valuable little tree. 



386. BROUSS01VE V TIA, Vent. 



[Dedicated to P. N. V. Broussonet, a French Naturalist.] 

 Flowers dioicous : STAM. FL. in loose ament-like spikes? bracteate. 

 Calyx 4-parted. PISTILLATE FL. in dense capitate clusters, mixed 

 with hairy scales. Calyx urceolate, 3- or 4-toothed. Ovary 1- 

 celled, pedicellate; style 1, filiform,, eccentric, stigmatic on one side. 

 Akene softly fleshy, elevated on the baccate pedicel, which is sup- 

 rounded at base by the calyx. 



1. B. PAPYRIF'ERA, Vent. Leaves roundish-ovate, or subcordate, 

 acuminate, serrate, often lobed, roughish above, pubescent beneath. 

 PAPEB-PBODUCING BBOUSSONETIA. Paper Mulberry. 



Stem 15 to 20 or 25 feet high, with spreading hranches, and tough bark on the 

 twigs. Leaves 3 to 6 or 8 inches long ; petioles 1 to 3 inches in length. Staminate 

 spikes about 2 inches long. Pistillate flowers densely crowded on a globose 

 receptacle. 

 ffab. Streets, and yards. Nat. of Japan. Fl. May. F.r. 



Obs. The staminate plant was introduced, here, some 60 years 

 since, as a shade tree ; but it is inferior to many others in beauty, 

 and so prolific in troublesome suckers, that it is now becoming ob- 

 solete. The pistillate plant (especially in fruit) is said to be a 

 handsomer tree ; but it has been introduced so recently, that its 

 character is scarcely known among us. 



SUBORDER II. CANNABIN'EAE. 



Herbs, with a watery juice; erect and annual, or twining and perennial. 

 leaves usually opposite, and stipulate ; flowers dioicous, the staminate ones race- 

 mose, or paniculate, with 5 sepals imbricated in the bud, the pistillate ones 

 clustered, either with single bracts, or with numerous bracts imbricated in stro_ 

 bile-like aments; stigmas 2, elongated; fruit a nut, or akene; embryo curved, 

 destitute of albumen, 



387. CAflT'STABIS, Tournef. 

 [An ancient Greek name, of obscure etymology.] 



STAM. FL. in axillary compound racemes. PISTILLATE FL. spicate- 

 clustered, with single bracts. Calyx urceolate, acuminate, con- 

 sisting of a single membranaceous sepal folded round the subglobose 

 ovary. Fruit a nut (or caryopsis), ovoid, 1-celled, 2-valved, inde- 

 hiscent, inclosed in the persistent calyx. Stem erect; upper leaves 

 often alternate ; flowers greenish. 



1. C. SATI X VA, Leaves digitate, petiolate ; leaflets 5 to 7, lanceolate, 



serrate. 



CULTIVATED CANNABIS. Common Hemp. 



