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form ; yet modern fyftems do not preferve them feparate. The late writers in general place 
in the fame claffes thofe trees and: herbaceous plants, whofe flowers have the fame number 
of filaments: but in this work, intended to familiarife the {cience, we have kept them, as they are 
in nature, difting, 
Te vegetables of this clafs carry their diftinGtion in the moft obvious manner in their outer 
SESE SH GH ce ace cate came 
S°sE aR 1 ES i, 
TREES whofe male and female flowers are feparate. 
G LEB aN* UU 2s a 
THE WALLNUT. 
NFU" X, 
HE male flowers are in catkins; and each is divided into fix parts. The female flowers ftand 
two or three together on other parts of the tree: each confifts of a cup, divided into four parts, 
with a fingle petal, divided alfo into four parts, and an oval rudiment, which afterwards becomes the 
fruit, confifting of a flefhy covering, with a thelly fubftance within, enclofing an uneven kernel, 
1. The Wallnut Tree. The catkins are brownifh, with a tinge of 
green, and the fruit covered with a green rind. 
It is wild in Scotland ; and is planted every 
The tree rifes to a great height, and fpreads where for the fruit. 
irregularly into branches. 
The leaves are pinnated ;_ the pinnz vaft, ob- The fkin furrounding the kernel is a good 
long, and of a fine green. aftringent. 
Nux vulgaris. 
GicEseN Ul Ss. a 
HAZLE, 
CEO2 RVG MUS 
HE male flowers are in catkins, and confift of numerous filaments : they are feparated by feales 
divided at the top into three parts, which turn back. The female flowers ftand at a diftance 
from thefe, and are enclofed in abud. The cup is formed of two leaves, and is ragged at the edges : 
thefe are fo {mall as to be fearce diftinguifhable. From the rudiment of the fruit rife two feathered 
and coloured ftyles. The fruit is a nut, contained in the cup, which enlarges greatly. 
I The 
