296 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
fatuation was — ted, throughout the United States, which bade 
defiance to all the suggestions of reason and common sense. There was 
a sort of or ws monomania (or ‘Mon ania !)—so Rapaces and 
engrossing, that it ea iaacarc ig ludicrous ; and was scarcely ex- 
ed in absurdity, nearly conte mporaneous evidenic, which 
Almost eve 
15. BROUSSONE’TIA, Vent. Paper Munperry. 
[Dedicated to P: N. V. Broussonet, a French Naturalist.] 
esa oe rag Srammvare Fr. in an ament-like spike, bracteate. 
‘alyx 4-parted. PisTILLaTE sir capitate, peepee crowded ona glo- 
Nene tony tie ponte an mixed with hairy sca Calyx u nrpeniatey 3=4- 
-celled, sednatlaty: eae “filiform, excentric, stigma- 
fe on ade pire softly fleshy, elevated on the baccate pediogls 
which i a ‘desketbded at base by the calyx. 
. B. papyrir’era, Vent. Leaves 
scabrous above, pubescent beneath, 
those on th 
0 : 
ded, Sagrada e or sub-cordate, 
Dilton ieee 
Paper Mulberr 
—_— r 2b foot high and 8-12 or 
15 inches in aintnate with spreading bran- 
ably ‘tough bark. ove 6 or 8 inches 
; petioles 1- 
spits about 2 aaiieon te — remanhiea g¢ loos 
ts. Pistillate flowers i in a dense capitate 
wan 
‘About houses: introduced. Native of 
rea and the South Sea Islands. Fl. May. 
Obs. This tree was introduced 
pi rei as a shade-tree ; but is inferior to many others in beauty, 
w rarely planted for ‘that t purpose. The roots are so prolific 
in Pees ee as to be quite a nuisance, about yards and gardens. The 
ats hie’ od 
‘Fig. 186. A branch of the Paper Mulbe’ ussonetia papyrifera), reduced, with 
fertile aments and variously lobed leaves np dae: ae seats ge: ter: 
