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rhsea's, which 1t ftops in two or three days, without 

 any bad confequences ; but alfo in the moft invete- 

 rate Venereal complaints. The leaves are dried and 

 ufed by fome as a fubftitute for Bohea Tea, from 

 which it acquired its name. 



CELASTRUS- 



The STAFF-TREE. 

 Clafs 5* Order i. Pentandria Monogynia. 



'T'HE Empalevient is of one leaf, half-five- cleft, plane, and 



very fmail: the divifions are obtufe and unequal. 

 The Corolla has five petals, ovate, fpreading, feflile, equal and 



reflexed at their margins. 

 The Filaments are five, awl-fliaped and the length of the corolla. 



The Antherx are very fmali. 

 The Germen is very fmall, immerfed in the receptacle, which is 



large, plane, and marked with ten ftreaks. The Style is awl- 



ihaped and fhorter than the ftamina. The Stigma is obtufe, 



and three-cleft. 



The Seed-veJIJel is a Capfule, coloured, ovate, obtufely three- 

 cornered, gibbous, three cell'd, and three valv'd. 



The Seeds are few, ovate, coloured, fmooth, and half covered 

 with an Arillus, four parted at the mouth, unequal and co- 

 loured. 



The Species but one^ with us^ viz. 

 Celastrus fcandens. American Climing Staff^ree. 



This grows naturally in many parts of North- 

 America, rifing with a twining woody ftem to the 

 height of ten or fifteen feet when fupported, fend- 

 ing out many flender flexible branches, cloathed 

 with oblong pointed leaves, a little fa wed on their 

 edges. The flowers come out from the fides of the 

 branches in loofe bunches ; they are of an herbace- 



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