OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA, S53 



Kuropean maple. 3. barbatnm. 4- saccharinum. (Sugar- 

 maple.) 5. nigmm. Scarcely distinct from the preceding. 

 Confined almost exclusively to the v/est side of the moun- 

 tains. 6. macropliuUioriyVK. v. s. Somewhat resembling X 

 Pseudoplatarifis. 7- circinatum, Ph. Both indigenous to 

 North Califorr.i<i, on Columbia river. 8. striatum. Persoon, 

 1. p. 417. Pursh, I. p. 2or. Obs. Racemes pendulous. 

 Calix 5-cleft, petals 5, oblong; stamina 8, anthers pale, 

 oval, small. l"his.is certainly a correct type of the genus, 

 as well as t!ie following. 9. montanum. 



Neguxdo. Dioicous. — Calix minute, 5-toothed. Pe- 

 tals none. Male, with 5 stamina, anthers linear, sessile, 

 and acuminate. Suinarie similar to Acer. 



A tree, with pseudoternate or imperfectly bitemated 

 leaves (somethin^g like those of Fraximis), racemes aggre- 

 gated, filiform. 



10.*- Fraximfolinm. Hab. Xorth-westv/ard on the banks 

 of the Missouri to the mountains? 



Of this genus there are 5 species on the continent of Eu- 

 rope, 1 in the isle of Crete, which is evergreen, with leaves 

 like Anemone hepatica, 1 in Turtary, and 6 in Japan. 



o67. DIRCA. L. (Leather-wood.) 



Calix none. Corolla tubiilous, border obso- 

 lete. Stamina unequal, exserted. Style filiform. 

 Berry 1 -seeded. 



A low shrub, virgateiy branched; bark tenaceous; buds 

 3-flowered, axillary; flowers small, pale yellow. 



Species. 1. D, paiust.is. The only species of the 

 genus. 



>6S. JEFFERSONIA. Barton, 



Calix 5-leaved, coloured, deciduous. Corolla 

 of 8 petals, incurvately spreadin.;^. Stamina ve^ 

 ceptacuiar. Capsule obovate, substipitate, i-cel- 

 led, opening below the summit by a lunate fora- 

 men. Seeds many, oblong, arillate at the base. 



Steinless; leaves binate; scapes naked, l-flowered; flow- 

 ers caducous, white. Natural order Pupaveracece. 



Species. 1. i.cUphylla. The only species of the gcnus. 



