HAM 
‘our Seeds numerous, ‘ovate, comprelfed, hooked at 
‘the 
oe Ch. “Male, Calyx of five or fix leaves. ae twice 
‘as_ many, linear, deftitute of a neftary. Stamens about 
a Peiale, Cal. and Cor. as in the male. Germens colle&ted 
bogie yi Stigma fimple. Seeds naked. : 
magellanica. La Gathered by Commerfon 
in de ftraits of Magellan. Mr. Menzies found the fame in 
ying 1787, half way up the mountains at Staten land. 
The root is perennial, coniifting of long ftraight fibres, as in 
-other plants of this*natural family. Stem none. Leaves 
a So ae at deeply oe into three ports, which 
et —. d cut; fmoo ; downy or 
o 
‘about half an inch in diameter, the males Heat's ona Wore 
flender ftalk ; females about four or five in the fpike, from a 
ehave not feen the ig? Hines but there 
of its bein as above « 
fib suke atoria and Filia of Linnzus, but 
ter genus is a berry or drupa, and the ftig- 
mas: are iisconphnied by ftyles.—The H. 
elevation above 
fgets ie ot of 
=i or Mr. —. is anot 
een, = ss than in 
salifbur 5 iden, ‘that ‘he above iscBeiv ace rather varie- 
cee a for they all differ from each other much in 
, the name given by Linneus to 
tribe. See Sma. 
in Geography, a town of Syria, 
» on the backs 6 of the Orontes, 
‘fe ete, and ee Give 5 and the hae 
pees 
: S34 
pb cavacents falposiee by the bafe of the 
as either va- ate 
iss in the — of fegments, and degree ‘of eee of — 
Me, younger: 
his Su 
aware of t 
cotton ; but 
1 and the : 
HAM 
tiie from 3, 
hell had called Trilop ,in 
its wibebied 4 in the prefent iriffance feems to be, that as the 
fruit isa whole year in ripening, it accompanies the flowers 
in autumn, which are deftined to ge the next year’s 
rg Willd. Sp. Pl v. 
. Ded. 2, Ait. Hort. Kew. cd. 2. 
uff. 288. Conk Illuftr. t. 88. Chile and 
ores ir 7 ETS Digynia. Nat. Ord. Amentacee, Linn. Ber- 
id: 
Cal, Perianth double, permanent, inferior ; the 
outer ok: two roundish f{maller leaves; inner erect, 
ovate-oblong, obtufe, equal leaves. a, ype four, linear, 
T equal, very long, obtufe, reflexe four trun- 
— feales, attached to the Sone Filaments four, 
near, alternate with the petals, fhorter than the calyx ; an- 
ay "vertical, elliptical, of two cells, each opening by a 
valve. Piff. Germen {uperior, ovate, villous ; fiyles two, 
the length of the flamen go Cap- 
h two cells, and tees folitary, 
Ef. Ch. Calyx double ; the outer of two, ‘onal four 
leaves, inferior. Petals four: with a nectariferous {cale to 
each. Anthers with two lateral valves. nein shine 
folitary. 
Obf. kd: pepidcaledheacinks <n con tilnighanh dea. 
Mant. 333, arofe from the author — confounded with 
it the 2b gan fee that article, which circumftance .the 
overlooked when he defcribed’the latter in 
or he doubtlefs would have explained the 
matter. What is in the Mantiffa termed the Carolina monce- 
cious kind, is Foth the hi of whofe leaves to Ba- 
mamelis caufed ~ miftake. Willdenow and Reichard copy 
thefe remarks, and 
if his obfervation had been original. Dr. Garden was well 
differences betwee n thefe genera, and intended 
to have called the Fathergilla ‘bys a name arene, ‘to the 
other, Anamelis. Spice 
The only {pecies pig . 
1. H. virginiana. Linn. Sp. Pl 
¢ Heals De Hake Arb. ape! te 288. “Goon 
). Native of Virgi seers Ww nak 
* 
two valves. 
