MONOECIA. rOLYANDHIA. '21T 



lix 4-toothed; germs or rather capsules 2, S-sided, 6- 

 seeded: each furnished with a proper 5-toothed setaceous 

 calix, a short style and 3 stigrnas; ovuix seated on a vil- 

 lous receptacle around a common axis which is connec- 

 ted above wilh the base of the style. 2. ferruginea. 



Of tliis g-enus there is 1 species in Europe and another 

 in Terra del Fuego. 



754. CASTANEA. Tournefort. (Cliesnut.) 



Polygamous — Masc. Ameat naked, linear. 

 Corolla 5 or 6-parted. Stamina 10 to 20. Fei:. 

 Calix 5 or 6 -leaved, muricate. Germs 3. Slig- 

 ma pencillfornied. JS\ds 3, included in theechi- 

 nated calix. 



I^arge or small trees; leaves oblong-lan<:colate, mucro- 

 nately serrate; aments very long" and axillary; nuts fari- 

 naceous. 



Species. 1. C- vesca; americana. Oc?. Younger leaves 

 before expansion Vvith the nerves pubescent beneath. 

 Masculine ament very long-, partly erect and spreading-, 

 interruptedly glonVerated, naked; clusters bibracteate 

 (bractes dissimilar) about? flowered, (sometimes 6, rarely 

 5 or 10, and then with 20 stamina) Rowers mostly dode- 

 candrous; calix (corolla, Willd) 6-purted, lateral, involu- 

 criform, segments subdiandrous; filaments of the stamina 

 much exserted. — Female amenis 2 to 3 to^i-ether, n^any^^ 

 flowered, thicker and sliorter, fertile involucrum solitary, 

 the 2 or 3 upper ones abortive; flowers conglomerated, 

 ternate, involucrum of 3 bractes. Calix (or involucrum) 

 squamose and leafy, brac:eate at the base, about 3 flow- 

 ered, at length muricate; corolla {proper calix?) tubular, 

 coarctate border irregular, 6^^ 8 parted. Stigmas numer- 

 ous, corneous and shLning, coalescing with the cahx, rigid 

 and white, at the base pilose; infertile stamina about 12, 

 very short, situated betwixt the calix and stigmas. Style 

 1. Nuts smaller than in the European vanety. 2. pundla. 

 (Chinquapin). 



3. * ahv-folia. Very low and shrubby; leaves ell'piic- 

 obovate, obiuse, mucronately and incisely serrate, under 

 side pubescent, middle nerve strigose, mai'gi?i ciliate. 

 Hab. In the dry and sandy forests of South Carolina, not 

 many miles from Charleston; scarce. Certainly very distinct 

 from the preceding. Gbs. Stem slender, and but little 

 branched, in my specimens scarcely 12 inches high. 

 Leaves minutely petiolate, broadest towards the summit, 

 serratures crowded, under surface minutely and uniform- 

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