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The Filaments are four, awl-fliaped. The Jnthercs are roundlfh. 

 The Germen is orbiculate and compreffed. The St^le is Ihort. 



The Stigmas are two, a little obtufe. 

 The Seed-vejjel is a roundilh, perpendicular membrane, in the 



center two celPd. 

 The Seed is one, obtufe, and leffened at the bafe. 



OhJ. The Petals and ftamina, alfo the divifions of the calyx; 

 have often one added to their number. 



We have^ with usy but one Species, viz. 



Ptelea trifoliata. Carolinian Shrub-Trefoih 



This rifes with an upright woody ftem, to the 

 height of ten or twelve feet, dividing into many- 

 branches, covered with a fmoorh greyifh bari^. The 

 leaves are trifohate, or compofed of three oval, 

 fpear-fliaped lobes, of a bright green on their upper 

 fide, but paler underneath, and inferted together at 

 the end of a pretty long footftalk. The flowers ter- 

 minate the branches in a kind of umbel, or large 

 branching heads, of a whitifli herbaceous colour j 

 and are fucceeded by roundifli, flat, bordered cap- 

 fules, fomewhat refembling thofe of the Elm, each 

 containing two feeds. 



P Y R O L A. 



WINTER-GREEN. 

 Chifs lo. Order i. Decandria Monogynia. 



THE Empalement is five-parted, fmall, and permanent. 

 The Corolla is compofed of live petals, which are round- 

 illi, concave, and fpreading. 

 The Filaments are ten, awi-fhaped, iliorter than the corolla. 



The Antherce are nodding, large, and two-horned upward. 

 The Fiftillum has a roundilh, angular Germen^ a filiform, per- 

 manent St'jky longer than the ftamina; and a thickifli Stigma. 



The 



