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the fides, which are wooly or downy when young, 
garnifhed with oval, fpear-fhaped leaves, placed op- 
pofite on pretty long footftalks. The flowers come 
out in whorls round the (talks, fitting very clofe; 
they are fmali and tubulous, cut into four obtufe 
fegments at the top, which expand and are of a deep 
purple colour ; thefe are fucceeded by foft fucculent 
berries, which are of a deep purple colour when full 
ripe, each enclofing four hard feeds. This is a na- 
tive of Carolina and will not endure much cold. 
CALYCANTHUS. 
CAROLINIAN ALLSPICE. 
Clafs 12. Order 5. Icofandria Polygynia. 
r F 1 HE Calyx is of one leaf, thickened, fquarrofe, fomewhat 
A top-ikaped, truncated, almoft clofed above; and perma- 
nent. 
The Corolla is compofed of many leaves, which are oblong, 
coloured, of thick and flefhy confluence, longer than the 
calyx, fomewhat fpreading, but chiefly lightly incurved their 
whole length ; inferted in the truncated margin of the calyx, 
difpofed in feveral feries or rows circularly, of unequal 
length and deciduous. 
The Filaments are many, fhort, awl-fhaped and inferted in the 
top of the calyx; the exterior of which, have oblong fur- 
rowed Antherce adjoined to their apex; the interior barren 
and clofing the calyx. 
The Germen are many, oblong, villofe, and hid within the calyx. 
The Styles many, joined in a medullary column and protrud- 
ing in the center of the barren filaments, which ferve for 
its defence. 
The Seed-vejjel none but the calyx, thickened, much enlarged, 
berry’ d, and fomewhat inverfe egg-ikaped. 
The Seeds are many, oval, fomewhat villofe, and furrounded 
longitudinally with a future. 
We have but one Species of this Genus , viz. 
Calycanthus 
