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The Germen are two, very fliort, each having two St\fleSy which 

 are long, capillary and coloured. The Stigmas are fimple. 



The Seed-vejfel none. The Katkin being enlarged and contain- 

 ing a feed at the bafe of each fcale. 



The Seed is a nut, ovate and angled. 

 Obf, The feeds of the Carpinus Betulus are contained within 



the bafe of the concave calycine fcale : but of the Oftrya with* 



in the inflated fcaie. 



The Species are, with us, 



I. Carpinus Betulus virginiana. American 

 Hornbeam. 



This grows common by moft of our river and 

 creek fides, rifing with a ftrong, woody, fomewhat 

 angular ftem, to the height of ten or fifteen feet; 

 fpreading into many branches, with oval, pointed 

 leaves, fawed on their edges. The flowers are pro- 

 duced at the ends of the young fhoots, in loofe, leafFy 

 katkins, and are fucceeded by fmall, hard, angular 

 feeds. 



2. Carpinus Oftrya. The Hop- Hornbeam, 



This tree often grows larger and more upright 

 than the former, the wood is tougher, the branches 

 fewer and more ereft. The leaves fomewhat refem- 

 ble thofe of the Elm. The male katkins are pro- 

 duced at the extremity of the branches, they are 

 fet the preceding fall, and remain all winter. The 

 female flowers are produced in inflated chaffy katkins, 

 much refembling a hop, from whence it acquired 

 its name. There is a variety of this called the F/r- 

 ginian flowering Hop-Hornbeam, which I have not 

 feen. 



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CASSINE. 



