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Pot £N TILL A fruticofa americana. American 

 Jhruhhy Cinquefoil. 



This is a fmall fhruh, feldom rifing above two 

 feet high, and fpreading into many branches. The 

 leaves are fmall and thick fet upon the branches, they 

 are winged, and compofed, generally, of five fmall, 

 oblong hairy lobes, reflexed on their edges and {land- 

 ing together. The flowers are produced pretty 

 thick on the branches, of a yellow colour, and are 

 fucceeded by fmall heads of pointed feeds. 



P R I N O S. 



The W I N T E R - B E R R Y. 

 Clafs 6. Order i. Hexandria Monogynia. 



THE Empalement is one leaved, plane, half- fix- cleft, very 

 fmall, and permanent. 

 The Corolla has one petal, wheel- iTi aped. The tube none. The 



horder is fix parted and plane: the divifions ovate. 

 The Filaments are fix, awl-lliaped, ered and Ihorter than the 



corolla. The Antherce are oblong and obtufe. 

 The Germen is ovate, ending in a St^le iliorter than the fl:amina, 



with an obtufe Stigma. 

 The Seed-vejjel is a roundifii berry, with fix cells ; and far larg- 

 er than the calyx. 

 The Seeds are folitary, bony, obtufe, convex on one fide and 



angled on the other. 

 Qhj\ Sometimes a fixth part of the number is excluded. 



There are two Species of this Shrub ^ viz. 



I. Prinos glaber. Evergreen Winter- Berry. 



This grows in feveral parts of North America, 

 rifing up with flender flirubby flalks to the height of 

 fix or eight feet, dividing into branches, which are 



garniflied 



