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DESCRIPTIVE BOTANY. 



pared from the leaves aud seed-vessels uf hemp. It is a favorite drink in the 

 East Indies. 



Those who frequent places in Egypt where hashish is sold are of the lowest 

 class, and the term has come to convey the idea of disorderly or riotous people. 

 The plural, hashshasheen, is believed to be the origin of our word "assassin." 

 because the Arabs in the time of the Crusades used the drug to produce 

 insensibility in their victims. 



Order LI. JUGLANDACE^. 



Flowers monoecious, staminate ones small, and often in hanging- 

 catkins ; perianth single, attached to the inner face of a bract which 

 is 6-lobed, sometimes 2-3-lobed ; stamens 3 to 40, inserted at the base 

 of the bract ; hlaments very short, free or coherent at the base ; pistil- 

 late flowers terminal, solitary or few, and clustered ; calyx tube ovoid, 

 limb 4-toothed ; styles 2, very short ; stigmas 2, elongated, recurved. 

 Fruit drupaceous, rarely nut-like, containing a single nut; epicarp 

 fleshy, fibrous within, indehiscent ; nut woody, rugose, and irregularly 

 grooved lengthwise. Trees or shrubs, with watery, resinous, aromatic 

 juice. Leaves odd-pinnate, exstipulate ; staminate catkins from last 

 year's branches, or at the base of the younger branches. 



No. of genera, 5 ; species, 3 ; temperate regions, and mountains in 

 the tropics. 



JUGLANS, L. Bract of the pistillate flower with its bractlets closely 

 adhering to the ovary, irregularly toothed at the perianth limb so as to 

 resemble an outer perianth ; exocarp of 

 the drupe closely adhering to the wrinkled 

 endocarp, or at last coming away irregu- 

 larly. Staminate and pistillate flowers 

 separate, but upon the same plant ; stami- 

 nate flowers in solitary, drooping catkins ; 

 calyx composed of 5 to 6 scale-like sepals ; 

 stamens 18 to 36, usually about 20. Pistil- 

 late flowers, 1 to 5 in a group, terminal on 

 the new wood ; caljrx ovate, and 4-toothed ; 

 petals 4 in number ; styles short, 2 in 

 number; stigmas 2. Fruit a drupe, nut 

 rugose, hard, globose, a little compressed 

 laterally, 2-valved. Covering of the nut 

 a fleshy husk, indehiscent. Kernel large, 



.JuGLANs oiNEREA (Buttemut). ollv, SWCet. 



1. J. cinerea, L. (Butternut.) Stem from 10 to 30 feet in height, irregu- 

 larly branched, aud from 6 inches to 1 foot in diameter. Leaf made up of 7 

 or 8 pairs of leaflets, and a terminal one ; leaflets rounded at the base, elliptical- 

 lanceolate, serrate, and pubescent underneath; aments cylindrical. Flowers 

 greenish, appearing in April and May. Fruit cylindrical, 2 inches long and 



