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short; stem diffused; root white, annual; flower twice as 

 long as the calix ; banner ovate, retuse ; keel shorter than, 

 the banner ; wings very small, one-fourth the length of the 

 calix. Native of France and Sicily, flowering iu July and 

 August. 



80. Hedysarum Crista Galli; Cock's-Comb Hedysarum. 

 Legumes one-seeded, prickly ; divisions of the crest lanceo- 

 late, toothletted ; root annual. Native of the Levant. 



81. Hedysarum Crinitum ; Crooked-podded Hedysarum. 

 Racemes long; legumes bent in; stem shrubby, five feet 

 high, round, tomentose, with diffused branches ; flower violet- 

 coloured, in a close, round, straight, terminating spike, a foot 

 long; bractes lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate, two-flowered. 

 Native of India, Cochin-china, and China. 



82. Hedysarum Comosum. Leaves pinnate, lanceolate; 

 racemes elongated, cylindric ; stem shrubby; branches angu- 

 lar, villose ; flowers crowded on very short pedicels. Jacquin 

 describes it as a very handsome plant, with a perennial root ; 

 an upright round stem, a foot and half high, leafy all over, 

 closely hispid, with very minute white hairs; flowers at first 

 red, but changing to blue, and soon falling. Found by Koenig 

 in the East Indies, and by Issert on the coast of Guinea. 



83. Hedysarum Cornutum ; Horned Hedysarum. Leaflets 

 linear; legumes one-seeded, even; stems shrubby; pedun- 

 cles permanent, thorny ; flowers three or four, alternate, 

 pedicelled, placed before the tip of the peduncle. Native of 

 the Levant. 



84. Hedysarum Incanum ; Hoary-leaved Hedysarum. 

 Leaves without stipules, hoary underneath; stem erect; 

 flowers in racemes, drooping, flesh-coloured. It has no 

 stipules. Native of Japan. 



85. Hedysarum Lineare ; Linear-leaved Hedysarum. Leaf- 

 lets lanceolate-linear ; spikes terminating; legumes straight, 

 smooth, and even ; stem diffused, surfruticose, two feet high. 

 The root is thought to be deobstnient, an emmenagogue, 

 and to create an appetite. Native of Cochin-china. 



86. Hedysarnm Sericeum. Leaves ternate ; leaflets ovate, 

 silky underneath ; flowers in spikes, axillary and terminating; 

 stem shrubby, six or seven feet high, dividing into several 

 branches; flowers small, and of a bright purple colour; 

 legumes flat, smooth, jointed, about an inch long. Native of 

 IA Vera Cruz. 



87. Hedysarum Villosum. Leaves ternate ; stem diffused, 

 villose; flowers in terminating spikes; calices very villose. 

 This is an annual plant, seldom rising more than eight or 

 nine inches high, sending out several branches from the 

 root, which are diffused and hairy ; spikes close and short ; 

 corolla purple. Native of La Vera Cruz. 



88. Hedysarum Glabrum. Leaves ternate; leaflets obcor- 

 date; stem panicled ; legumes smooth, lunulate, compressed, 

 oblique to the stem, one-seeded. Native of Campeachy. 



89. Hedysarum Scandens. Leaves ternate ; leaflets obo- 

 vate; stem twining; spike very long, bent back. It climbs 

 to the height of ten or twelve feet. Flowers dark purple, 

 sitting close to the stalk. Native of La Vera Cruz. 



90. Hedysarum Pedunculatum. Leaves ternate ; the mid- 

 dle leaflet on a longer petiole ; racemes axillary, upright, very 

 long ; root perennial ; stem annual, erect, about two feet 

 high. The flowers are produced in long axillary spikes, 

 growing erect; they are small, and of a bright yellow colour, 

 sessile, and succeeded by jointed pods, straight on one side. 

 Native of South Carolina. 



Heisteria ; a genus of the class Decandria, order Monogy- 

 nia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Cahr: perianth one-leafed, 

 bell-shaped, five-cleft, acute, small, permanent. Corolla : 

 petals five, ovate, acute, concave, spreading. Stamina : 



filamentn ten, ovate, acute, flat, upright, alternately sliorter ; 

 antheree roundish. Pistil: germen roundish, flatted; style 

 upright, short ; stigma four-cleft, obtuse. Pericarp: drupe 

 oblong, flatted at the tip, placed on a very large coloured 

 calix. Seed: nut oval, obtuse. ESSENTIAL CIIAKACTKU. 

 Calix: five-cleft. Petals: five. Drupe: with a very large 

 coloured calix.-- The species are, 



1. Heisteria Coccinea. This is an inelegant branching tree, 

 twenty feet in height. Leaves oblong, quite entire, drawing 

 to a sickle-shaped point, shining, on short petioles, alternate, 

 half a foot in length ; flowers small, pedunclcd, axillary, with 

 white corollas; calix in the flower small and green, in the 

 fruit scarlet, with a very large spreading limb, and short, very 

 blunt, roundish segments. Native of Martinico, in close 

 woods near torrents, flowering in February and March, and 

 fruiting in June. The French inhabitants call it Buis Pcr- 

 drix, birds being very fond of the fruit. 



2. Heisteria Caultflora. Leaves oblong, somewhat obo- 

 vate, tapering at the base ; flowers from the stem and naked 

 branches ; calix of the fruit closed, deeply lobed. This lofly 

 tree is found in Guiana. 



,'}. Heisteria Parvifolia. Leaves ovate, pointed, shining ; 

 flowers axillary; calix of the fruit widely spreading, with 

 deep ovate lobes. -Found in Sierra Leone. 



Helenium ; a genus of the class Syngenesia, order Poly- 

 gamia Superflua. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: common 

 simple, one-leafed, many-parted, spreading; leaflets about 

 twenty, gradually drawing to a point. Corolla : compound, 

 radiate ; corollets hermaphrodite, numerous in the disk ; females 

 as many as there are parts of the calix, in the ray. Proper 

 of the hermaphrodites tubular, shorter than the calix, rive- 

 toothed ; of the females ligulale, broader outwards, trifid at 

 the tip, longer than the calix. Stamina: in the hermaphro- 

 dites ; filamenta five, capillary, very short; antheree cylindric, 

 tubular. Pistil: in the hermaphrodites; germen oblong; 

 style filiform, length of the stamina; stigma bifid : in the 

 females, germen oblong; style very short; stigma bifid. 

 Pericarp: none; calix unchanged. Seeds: in the herma- 

 phrodites, solitary, obovate, angular, crowned with a small 

 five-toothed calicle: in the females, very like the others. 

 Receptacle: naked, convex ; the calicine chaff's only of the 

 ray separating the florets. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Calif : 

 simple, many-parted. Corollets: of the ray, semitrifid. 

 Down: five-awned. Receptacle: naked, excepting the cali- 

 cine chiff's in the ray. The species are, 



1. Helenium Autumnale; Smooth Helcnium. Leaves very 

 smooth. It rises to the height of six or seven feet in good 

 ground ; the roots when large send up a great number of 

 stalks, which branch towards the top. The leaves sit close 

 to the stalks, and from their base is extended a leafy border 

 along the stalk, so as to form what was generally termed ti 

 winged stalk, but Linneus calls it a decurreiit leaf; the upper 

 part of the stalk divides, and from each division arises a 

 naked peduncle about three inches long, sustaining one lar^c 

 bright yellow flower, shaped like a Sun-flower, but much 

 smaller, having long rays, which are jagged pretty deep into 

 four or five segments; these appear in August, and there is 

 a succession of flowers on the plants till the frost puts a stop 

 to them. The whole plant is intensely bitter, with something 

 of the aroma of Anthemis Nobilis, and would probably apswer 

 all its niediciunl properties. Native of America, when it 

 grows in great plenty in the woods, and other shady plae< s 

 and moist grounds of Virginia and New England. This, 

 well as the next species, may be propagated by seeds, or by 

 parting their roots ; but the latter is generally practised in this 

 country, because they sol<i.>m perfect seeds here, but if tliC 



