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being durable and not liable to be eaten by worms } 

 it affords excellent planks, &c. for Ihip building; 

 alfo ports, rails, boards, ftiingles, &c. &c. and to 

 it our dairy women are indebted for tubs, pails, 

 churns, &c, 



DIOSPYROS. 



The DATE PLUM, or PERSIMMON TREE. 

 Clafs 23. Order 2. Polygamia Dioecia. 



* TTHE Hermaphrodite female. 



^. The Empalement is compofed of one leaf, four-cleft, large, 

 obtufe and permanent. 



The Corolla^ of one petal, pitcher-fliape, larger, and four-cleft; 

 the divifions acute and fpreading. 



The Filaments are eight, briftly, Ihort and lightly inferted in 

 the receptacle. The Antherce are oblong and effoete. 



The Germen is roundilli. The Style one, half four-cleft, per- 

 manent and longer than the ftamina^ The Stigmas are obtufe 

 and two- cleft. 



Tho Seed'VeJJ^el is a berry, which isglobous, large, eight-cell'd, 



and fitting on the large fpreading calyx. 

 The\Se^fi?j* are folitary, roundifli, compreffed, and very hard, 

 *The Male in diftinft plants. 



The Empalement confifts of one leaf, four-cleft, acute, ered^ 

 and fniall. 



The Corolla of one petal, pitcher-lliape, coriaceous, four-cor- 

 nered and four cleft: the divifions areroundilTi andrevolute. 



The Filaments are eight, very iTiort and inferted in the recepta- 

 cle. The AnthercB are doable, long, and acute; the interior 

 lliorteft. 



The Fiftillum, is the rudiment of a germen. 



T^he Species with us^ but one, viz. 



DiosPYRos virginiana. Virginian Perjlmnton 

 Tree. 



This grov/s naturally in moift clayey ground, in 

 Pennfylvania and Maryland, as well as Virginia j rif- 



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