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XXXIX. AKALIACE^, 



[^Adoxa 



1. Adoxa Linn. Moschatell 



Cal half-Inferior, 3-cleft. 

 Stam, 8— 



Cor. superior, rotate, 4 — 5-cleft. 



10, inserted by pairs, each bearing a 1 -celled anther. 



Berry 4 — 5-seeded. (The side-flowers have the corolla 5-cleft' 



the terminal one 4-cIeft.) — Name: froma,^^'^Y^o^rf,andcoS«,g'Zar^/' 

 from the humble and insignificant aspect of this little flower. 



L A. moscTiatellina L. (tuberous 3£) E. B, t. 453. 



Woods, hedge-banks, and shady places ; not unfrequent at a great 

 elevation and even near the tops of Highland mountains. If., 4, 5. 



Root (or rather subterranean s^em) composed of tooth-like scales 

 creeping. Stem about a span high. Leaves 2 — 3, radical, on very lono- 

 footstalks triternate, lobed and cut, 2 cauline ones small and simply 

 ternate. Pedujicles teYininal, with a head of 4 verticillate^oz^'ers and a 

 fifth terminal one. Stamens united in pairs ; or they may be considered 

 as 4 — 5 forked stamens^ each division terminated by the single 

 cell of an anther^ and all springing from a fleshy ring that surrounds 

 the upper part of the germen, 



2. Hedera Linn. Ivy. 



Cal. of 5 teeth. Pet 5, distinct, broadest at the base. Stam. 

 5 — 10. Style simple, or 5 — 10 more or less combined. Berry 

 with 3 — 10 seeds crowned by the calyx. — JSTame supposed to be 

 from kdfja^ a seat^ from its clinging to or sitting upon old walls, 



&c. 



1. H. Llelix L. {common /.) ; leaves coriaceous ovate or 

 cordate and 3 — 5-lobed, lobes angular, umbel simple pubescent 

 erect. E. B. t. 1267. 



Hedges, woods, old buildings, or rocks and trunks of trees, fre- 



Jl. 10, 11. — Stems 



quent. 



very long throwing out numerous 

 fibres, by which they adhere to hard substances. Leaves very shining 

 dark green, often veined with whitish lines. Flowers small, pale green. 



Cal'teeth extremely minute. Pet. reflexed. Berries smooth and 

 black. 



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Orb. XL. CORXACEiE De Cand. 



Calyx-tiibe adnate with the ovary; limb 4— 5-toothed and 

 minute, or 4— 5-lobed and valvate in aestivation. Pet. 4, broad 

 at the base ; (Estivation valvular. 



Ovary 2-celled: ovules 

 2-celled nucleus. Seeds 



Drupe with a 1 



Stamens 4, inserted with the 

 petals. Style filiform. Stigma simple, 

 solitary, pendulous. 



with a fleshy albumen, and an embryo nearly its length.— 

 Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs. Leaves {except in one species) 

 opposite, and as well as fhe fruit, beset with appressed hairs 

 attached by the middle. Bark tordc. 



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