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and their hulks or feed-veffels fmaller and lengthened 
out into a point or horn, and ciofely embracing its 
nuts. 
CRATiEGUS. 
The WILD SERVICE-TREE. 
Clafs 12. Order 2. Icofandria Digynia. 
T HE Empalement is one leaved, concave-fpreading, five-tooth- 
ed and permanent. 
The Corolla is of five petals, roundilh, concave, fitting clofe 
and infer ted in the calyx. 
The Filaments are twenty, awl-ihaped, and inferted in the calyx. 
The Anthem are roundilh. 
The Germen is beneath. The Styles are two, thread-form, and 
ereft. The Stigmas are headed. 
The Seed-vejjel is a berry, fieihy, roundilh, and umbilicated. 
The Seeds are two, longilh, diftinft and cartilaginous. 
Botanical writers enumerate feveral Species of this 
Genus, native of thefe dates; but I believe, upon 
more drift examination, they will chiefly be found 
to belong, with more propriety, to the Mefpilus. 
See Mefpilus. 
CUPRESSUS. 
The CYPRESS TREE. 
Clafs 21. Order 9. Monoecia Monodelphia. 
151 HTHE Male flowers are collected in an ovate Katkin. 
A The Calyx, a common ovate Katkin, compounded with 
fparfed flowers, confiding of Scales which are uniflorous, 
roundilh, iharp-pointed on the fore part, targetted, op- 
pofite and in number about twenty. 
The Corolla none. 
The Filaments are wanting; but four Anthem are joined, in their 
dead, to each fcale of the katkin. 
* The Female flowers are collected in a roundilh cone, on the 
fame plant. 
The 
