A GO MPREE A Tab O DY : 
Sept. 
ume has given the Tree the Name Hop Hornbeam. 
The Flowers of both Kinds very well deferve 
the Attention of the botanical Student. 
The Male Flowers are cluftered together in a 
Jong Catkin of a cylindrick Form, compofed in a 
~ Ioofé manner of Scales one over another. | 
as the Cup to one Flower. 
This has no Petals: it confifts . of ten very 
ton Filaments, each crowned with a double 
- Button. Thefe have a flowery Afpeét, and have 
been called by forme the ee Sys of the Car- 
 pinus. 
comprefied Form, and made ‘of two Valves. 1 
There are in the Male F lowers no other Parts. 
_ The Female are difpofed in Catkins of an ob: 
long Form, compofed of Scales loofely laid over | 
one afiother; and thefe are hairy, of a lanceolated 
_ Form, with the Point turned back ; and each con- 
tains one Flower. 
This has the Afpect of a Cup, and j iS Foire | 
of a fingle Piece cut at the Edge into fix Seg- 
ments, two of which are a than the other 
four. ; 
In the Bafe of this are Y idea two ‘Rudiments e 
and each of thefe is crowned with two long, cO-- 
loured Styles, terminated by {mall fimple Heads. 
The whole Catkin of F emale F lowers fwells into 
‘hicks refembling a Hop in Form and Colour, 
| on the fame Tree: 
The Scales ate oval, hollowed, fharp pointed, ¥! Trees, the Clafs is the Diacia ; 
edged with a Rim of ftiff Hairs ; and each ferves | 27€ feparate in themfelves; but both Kinds on the 
Thefe Buttons are hairy at their Tops, of ay | ¥ andria. 
| Thicknefs afterwards, and refembles the Hop. 4 
The feveral Scales fwell up, and under each is ——— 
contained a fingle Seed: 
The Clafs of this Tree is not to be fought i in 
the Number of the Filaments; but in the Difpo- 
fition of the Male and Benak Flowers feparate 
“Set 
When they are on difting 
but when they 
fame Tree, the Clafs is the Monecia. , 
The Subdiftinétions of this Clafs are in 
the firft Inftances taken from the Number of 
the F ilaments ; and thefe, when they exceed 
feven, are counted among the Polyandria. The 
Carpinus therefore is one. of the Monecia Po- 
‘A a 
Culture of the «sical Hornseam, 
It isa hardy Dates, and very eabiy propa- 
gated, it may be raifed from Seed; but as the 
young Shoots take root freely in the. Way of 
Layers, that MES is preferable, and is moft 
practifed. 
They fhould be laid in Autumn i in the ufual 
Manner, and not be cut off till the Autumn fol- 
lowing : they will by that Time have very good 
Roots; and fhould be planted in a Nurfery to 
take two or three Years Growth ; keeping them | 
clear from Weeds, and training them up to the 
intended Fi orm. 
4 TERNATE LEAVED RUE. 
Pl. 50. ‘This is a very elegant and fingular Piaaes 
Fig. 4. plainly of the Rue Kind in Flower; but fo ex- | 
treamly diftinct in Form, that it appears fingular 
the Characters fhould agree fo Perfectly ; ; we 
owe the Knowledge of it to MrcHgir. 
The Flower wanting that Hairynefs which is 
The Flowers are numerous, latge, ahd of a 
deliéate yellow : they crown all the Extremities 
of the Branches, and fpread into a broad large 
Head. 
Each Flower’ has its fmall permanent Cup 
formed of one Piece, and divided into five Seg- 
fo confpicuous in that of the Rue, he: feparated { ments. 
it, and called it Pfeudo Ruta: baftard Rue: but 
this is an Accident too flight to be received in the | 
prefent improved State of the Science, as. the 
Mark of a diftinét Genus. __ 
Liww us refers it to the Rue Kind, and adds 
as the Diftinction of the Species, foliis ternatis 
Jefilibus : Rue with Leaves growing three toge- 
ther, without Footftalks. 
_ The Root is ‘ong; lender, and hung with a 
few Fibres. 
The Stalk is upright, fimple, firm, and at the 
Top divided into a Number of Branches which 
{pread out into a kind of Head: it is purplith 
toward the Bottom, and green upwards. 
The Leaves are oblong, narrow, obtufe, and 
of a pale green. Three rife together, and they 
have no Footftalks. 
cover the whole Stalk from the Ground to ‘the 
Top. 
Style crowned with a fimple Head. 
-ment from which this rifes is irregularly promi- 
nent, marked with a Crofs, and with ten Dots at 
the Bafe; and it becomes afterwards an irregular 
-fhaped Seed-veffel, with: five Cells: ; in each of 
which are many Seeds, rough, and angulated, 
The Body: of the Flower is compofed of era 
Filaments ; they are long, oval, expanded, and — 
have narrow Bafes. 
In the Centre are placed ten flender Fila- 
ments ; they are equal in Length to the Petals, 
and they ftand “bite tobe and. have erect very 
_fhort Buttons. =. 
In the Centre of thele is Fyoed a fingle fnalh 
The Rudi- 
The ten Filaments fhew the Plant one of the 
Decandria, and the fingle Style refers it to the 
They ftand clofe, and | Monogynia. 
Culture 
