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The Germen beneath. The S'fy/e finiple, the length of the fta- 



mina. The Stigma lopped. ' 

 The Seed-vejjel a drupCy roiindifh and of one cell. 

 The Seeds two nuts, roundiili, pointed, convex on one fide 



and plane on the other. 



The SpecieSj with us^ but one^ viz, 



Styrax americana. Carolinian Storax-Trce. 



This grows naturally i.n Carolina; rifmg with a 

 pretty ftrong ftem to the height of ten or twelve feet, 

 covered with a linooth brownifli bark, and dividing 

 into many flender branches. The leaves are pretty 

 large, oval fliaped, a little pointed, fcarce obfervably 

 toothed, of a deep green, and a httle downy on the 

 upper furface, but lighter and much more downy 

 underneath; having Ihort footftalks, which together 

 with the young flioots, are alfo woolly or downy. 

 The flowers are produced upon the fmall branches, 

 in a kind of racemus or bunch; fupporting a fev/ 

 fcattered flowers, which are white, pendulous, and 

 have each ten fl:amina and fomewhat the fragrance 

 of an Orange flower. They are fucceeded by round- 

 ifh feed-veffels, each containing two roundifli, point- 

 ed nuts or feeds. 



T A X U S. 



The yew-tree. 

 Clafs 22. Order 12. Dioecia Monadelphia. 



*'T^HS Male Flowers have no Empalements, but a bud of four 



^ leaves foin^what like one. 

 They have no Corolla, 



The Filaments are numerous, joined beneath in a column, and 

 longer than the bud. The Anthem are depreffed, obtufe at 

 the margin, eight-cleft, gaping on every fide at the baf^ 



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