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The Gemen beneath* The Styles three, thread-form, and 



ereft. The Stigmas headed. 

 The Seed'VeJJel a berry, foft, globofe, and uiiibilicated. 

 The three, fomewhat oblong, diftinft, and cartilaginous, 



The Species, with us^ but one^ viz. 



So REUS americana. American Service Tree. 



This grows naturally upon the mountains towards 

 Canada; rifing to the height of about fifteen or eigh- 

 teen feet, with an eredl ftem dividing into feveral 

 branches. The leaves are winged, compofed of 

 eight or nine pair of lobes, terminated by an odd 

 one; which are narrow and fawed on their edges* 

 The flowers are produced at the extremity of the 

 branches in form of an umbel, and are fucceeded by 

 roundifti berries of a red colour when ripe^ 



S P I R iE Ae 



S P I R ^ A. 

 Clafs 12. Order 4. Icofandria Pentagynia. 



THE Empalement is of one leaf, half five-cleft, and plane 

 at the bafe: the divifions acute; permanent. 

 The Corolla of five petals, oblong-rounded, and inferted in the 

 calyx. 



The Filaments above twenty, thread-form, fliorter than the co- 

 rolla, and inferted in the calyx. The Anthem roundifti. 



The Gemen five or more. The Styles as many, thread-form, 

 and the length of the Stamina. The Stigmas headed. 



The Seed-vejjels capfules, oblong, lliarp-pointed, compreffed 

 and two valved. 



The Seeds few, lliarp-pointed and fmall. 

 OhJ, S. opulifolia has three Styles. 



The 



