S^^ MONOECL^ TETRANDRIA. 



the brink of the lakes with tufts of ft-micylin- 

 drical linear acute leaves, about two inches 

 long : three or four, or more, naked ftalks arife 

 from 'between the leaves, about an inch and a 

 a half long, terminated each vv'ith one greenilh 

 male flower, furnifhed with four white filaments, 

 near an inch long, ftanding out of the flower. 

 The female flowers are fefiile, comm.only tvv'o, 

 fornetimes three, placed at the bafe of the male 

 ftalk. 

 This feems to be the plant which Dillenius has 

 figured under the name of Suhularia repens^ fo- 

 lii's ccuvexo phftis. Hijl mufc. f. ^i^i. t. 8i. 



BETULA. Gen.pl 1052. 



MASC. Cr?/, i-phyllus, 3-ridus, 3-florus. 



Cor. 4 -partita. 

 FEM. Cal. i-phylkis, fub 3-fidus, 2-florus. 

 Sent, utrinque membrana alata. 

 aVca I. EETULA foliis ovatis acuminatis ferratis. Sp. pi. 



1393. (Cer. em. 147^. Blnkwell. t. 2^0. Duba- 

 , : mel Jrbor. I. p. loo- t. ■^c).) 



I'he Birch Tree. Anglis. Birk. Zcotis. Am bea- 

 ■ ■ .. rlia. Gaulis. ' ^ ■. 



'J"he highland woods abound with this tree. In 

 many places is a beautiful variety, with long 

 pendent twigs hanging to the ground, like 

 . the weeping-willow. ^. IV'^ V. 



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