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and their hulks or feed-veffels fmaller and lengthened 

 out into a point or horR, and clofely embracing its 

 nuts. 



CRAT^GUS. 



The WILD SERVICE-TREE. 



Clafs 12. Order 2. Icofandria Digynia. 



nPHE Empalement is one leaved, concave-fpreading, five-tooth- 



ed and permanent. 

 The Corolla is of five petals, roundilTi, concave, fitting clofe 



and inferted in the calyx. 

 The Filaments are twenty, awl-fliaped, and inferted in the calyx. 



The Antherce are roundifli. 

 The Gemen is beneath. The Styles are two, thread-form, and 



ereft. The Stigmas are headed. 

 ThtSeed-veffel is a berry, fiefliy, roundifli, and umbilicated. 

 The Seeds are two, longifli, diftind and cartilaginous. 



Botanical writers enumerate feveral Species of this 

 Genus, native of thefe ftates; but I believe, upon 

 more ftrift examination, they will chiefly be found 

 to belong, with more propriety, to the Mefpilus. 

 See Mefpilus. 



CUPRESSUS. 



The CYPRESS TREE. 

 Clafs 21. Order 9. Monoecia Monodelphia. 



^ 'T^HE Male flowers are colle£ted in an ovate Katkin. 



^ The Calyx, a common ovate Katkin, compounded with 

 fparfed flowers, confifting of Scales which are uniflorous, 

 roundifli, fliarp-pointed on the fore part, targetted, op- 

 pofite and in number about twenty. 



The Corolla none. 



The Filaments are wanting; but iom Anther (b are joined, in their 



ftead, to each fcale of the katkin. 

 * The Female flowers are collected in a roundilTi cone, on the 



fame plant. 



The 



