( I 5° ) 
The Germen beneath. The Style fimple, the length of the (la- 
mina. The Stigma lopped. 
The Seed-vejjel a drupe , roundifh and of one cell. 
The Seeds two nuts, roundifh, pointed, convex on one fide 
and plane on the other. 
"The Species, with us, but one y viz. 
Styrax americana. Carolinian Storax*Tree . 
This grows naturally in Carolina; rifing with a 
pretty (Irong (lem to the height of ten or twelve feet, 
covered with a frnooth brownifh bark, and dividing 
into many flender branches. The leaves are pretty 
large, oval fhaped, a little pointed, fcarce obfervably 
toothed, of a deep green, and a little downy on the 
upper furface, but lighter and much more downy 
underneath ; having fhort footflalks, which together 
with the young fhoots, are alfo woolly or downy. 
The flowers are produced upon the fmall branches, 
in a kind of racemus or bunch; fupporting a few 
fcattered flowers, which are white, pendulous, and 
have each ten (lamina and fomewhat the fragrance 
of an Orange flower. They are fucceeded by round- 
ifh feed-veflels, each containing two roundifh, point- 
ed nuts or feeds. 
T A X U S. 
The YEW-TREE. 
Clafs 22. Order 12. Dioecia Monadelphia. 
^'T’HE Male Flowers have no Empalements , but a bud of four 
A leaves fomewhat 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 evfery fide at the bafe 
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