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The Gevmpn are two, very fliort, each having two Styles, which 
are long, capillary and eoloured. The Stigmas are iimple. 
The Seed-veJJel none. The Katkin being enlarged and ©ontain- 
ing a feed at the bafe of each fcale. 
The Seed is a nut, ovate and angled* 
Obf, The feeds of the Carpinus Betulus are contained within 
the bafe of the concave calycine fcale : but of the Oftrya with- 
in the inflated fcale. 
The Species are, with us, 
i. Carpinus Betulus virginiana* American 
Hornbeam . 
This grows common by mo ft of our river and 
creek tides, rifing with a ftfong, woody, fomewhat 
angular ftem, to the height of ten or fifteen feet; 
fpreading into many branches* with oval, pointed 
leaves, fawed on their edges.. The flowers are pro- 
duced at the ends of the young {hoots, in loofe, leaffy 
katkins, and are fucceeded by fmall, hard, angulat 
feeds. 
2. Carpinus Oftrya. The Hop-Hornbeam . 
This tree often grows larger and more upright 
than the former, the wood is tougher, the branches 
fewer and more ereft. The leaves fomewhat refem- 
ble thofe of the Elm. The male katkins are pro- 
duced at the extremity of the branches, they are 
fet the preceding fall, and remain all winter. The 
female flowers are produced in inflated chaffy katkins, 
much refembling a hop, from whence it acquired 
its name. There is a variety of this called the Vir- 
ginian flowering Hop-Hornbeam, which I have not. 
feen. 
P 
CASSINE. 
