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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



hooks or rootlets and has alternate-distichous lobed leaves. On 

 those of its branches which are free and whose leaves, quincuncially 



Hedera Helix. 



Fig. 208. Branch with hooks. 



Fig. 209. Inflorescences. 



alternate, are entire, the inflorescences are terminal and in clusters 

 of umbellules, terminated by a more aged umbellule. The pedicels, 



articulate at the base, are 

 Hedera miiic. inserted in the axil of small 



bracts. To this genus has 

 been referred as a section, H, 

 australiana, proposed also as 

 a distinct genus under the 

 name oi Kissodendron, because 

 its leaves are compound- 

 pinnate. In H, discolor, ar- 

 gentata, septemnervia, capitata, 

 xalapensis, jatrophcefolia, &c., 

 American species, of which the genus Oreopanax has been made, 



Fig. 211. Seed (f). 



Fig. 212. Long, 

 sect, of seed. 



