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- BROUSSONETIA PAPYRIFERA. 
« Paper Mulberry. 
i ne CLASS XXII. ORDER IV. 
DICECIA TETRANDRIA. Chives and Pointals on different Plants. Four 
Chives. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. \ 
* Masculi flores. * Male flowers. 
AmentTuM cylindraceum, CaTKIN cylindrical 
Caxyx 4-partitus. Corolla nulla. MPALEMENT 4-divided. Blossom none, 
* Feminei flores. * Female flowers. 
Amentum globosum, floribus undique tectum, Catxrw globular, covered all over by flowers, 
Caxyx inferus, persistens, 3- seu aaa IMPALEMENT beneath and remaining, 3- some= 
Corolla nulla, Stylus filifor Fructus. times 4-toothed. Blossom none. Sha 
cylindraceo-clavatus, apice bilabiatus. thread-shaped. Fruit cylindrically club- 
shaped, and two-lipped at rm A oes 
Semen nudum ad apicem fructtis. Seep naked at the point of the 
Broussonetia Papyni era, Vouk. “Tab. Veg. et 
Willd. S, Sp 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Brovssowerta folis tri- vel quinque-lobis, acu- Brovssonetia with leaves from 3- to 5-lobed, 
tis, s serratis, pta scabris, subtus pubes- pointed, sawed, rough on the upper sur- 
; face, and softly haired beneath. 
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A REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
Male Plant. Female Plant. 
‘ } An empalement and chives, in an infant state. 1, The catkin with a pointal detached. 
2. The same magnified. 2. A section of the same when in fruit. 
3. An empalement and chives in perfection. . One of sled florets with the seed detached. 
4. The same magnified. cut in two, and magnified. 
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Furs useful plant is the Morus papyrifera of Linnzus, but certainly would not have been so called by 
him, had both the male and female plant come under his.inspection, as it does not belong either to the 
class or order of the Mul albany. ees! of ne plants, when in bloom, possesses much beauty, 
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Japan and the South Sea elit, 2 it is fadipece, tic bark of it serves to make a clothing for 
the ery In Japan, it not only makes cloth for them, but all the Jonson paper is made from the 
bark of it. There are four sorts, . 
on one side. The second is a fine letter paper, in sheets often three feet long. The th third is used for 
covering their best varnished a = cles, and so fine as cua ats to look like a spider's web. The fourth 
is a common w 
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moulds; which are not, like ours, formed of wire, but of fine rushes, and the sheets lid on a 
we: fine shred of bamboo between each, and covered by a board with a stone upon it, 1 
Squeeze out the water, dried the next day singly on flat boards, and ps packed up for 
Our figure was was made from fine plants in the garden of J. Vere, 
