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fmooth and of a dark colour, but as they advance 
becomes rougher and of a lighter colour. The 
branches are fet thick on every fide, and garnifhed 
with oblique oval leaves, ending in points and faw- 
ed on their edges. The flowers come out oppofite 
to the leaves, upon pretty long footftalks; they are 
fmall and make but little appearance, and are fuc- 
ceeded by round, hard berries, about the fize of a 
fmall pea, of a yellow colour and fweet tafte when 
ripe. The juice of the fruit is faid to be aftringent 
and to give eafe in violent Dyfenteries. 
CEPHALANTHUS. 
The BUTTON-TREE. 
Clafs 4. Order 1. Tetrandria Monogynia. 
'T'HE Common Empalement is none, but a globofe receptacle, 
colle&ing many florets into a little head. 
The Proper Empalement is one leaved, funnel-form and angular ; 
tire border four-cleft. 
The Univerfal Corolla is equal. The Proper of one petal, funnel- 
form and acute. 
The Filaments are four, inferted in the corolla, and ihorter than 
the border. The Anthem are globofe. 
The Germen is beneath. The Style longer than the corolla. 
The Stigma globofe. 
The Seedvejjel none. 
The Seeds are folitary, long, Ieffened at the bafe, pyramidal and 
wooly. 
The Common Receptacle is round and villofe. 
The jBpecies but one , viz. 
Cephalanthus occidentalis. Button tree. 
This fhrub grows pretty common by creek fides 
and ponds, rifing to the height of fix or eight feet; 
growing very crooked, and fending out feveral 
branches, 
