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Shmbi Leaves opposite, without stipules. F! 



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i,„, ,1 „ Flowere unisexual, amentac* 



the sepals, not el . < alyx 



Ovan one-c« ll< 1 ; styl - , 

 with funiculi as 

 ried, indehiscent, twc-seeded. Lmbryo verj uui 

 in the base of fleshy albumen. 

 In its amentaceous inflon 



superior calyx, and mode of germinati this Ord< r 



similar from which it diffei 



Sally in its w ' without concentric ""> 



tissue (dotted vi ite opposite i x 



ample fruit, and minute embryo lying in a g 



albumen. The latter characters bring it i 



and their allies, especially Chloranths, with which 



zoneless w 1 (for Chloranthus has no annual 



simple fruit, and opposite LeaveB, als | but the su- 



pulesol Chloranths, together with their na ual 



flowers, and articulafc , distinctly separate that 



Nettleworts and Antidesmads may als 

 pared with Garrya on account of their im] i uni- 



sexual flow< rs, somewhat amentao 

 simple fruit ; but their superior fruit, alten 



and more perfectly formed* I, are im] 



diff, Gnetumagain maybe taken m< 



on account of its opposite exstipulat. 



unisexual flowers appearing from the 

 bracts, minute embryo lying in a great i 



and imperf. ess « I, which in both 



chiefly constituted oH lyfibre(thc 



marked with numerous brownish gram 

 lar and reticulated vessels lyim 



thetubesofvi lyfibre. Ontheotherl 



have entirely the a, | 



w Is. I formerly referred Garrj 



,„,,. in which Endlicher follows, 



Juliflor*. Its attest Calyx, however, and ,„-,■ .■■.uipli 



tunityofiissociatmgitwithHelwmgia^ 



base of sohd albumin, and bring the whole into immediate contact with U 



^est shrubs are all found in North America, in temperate htta 

 [ndi 

 Their uses are unknown. 



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