CERCOCARPUS.t 
(Humb., Bonpl. and Kunth.) 
Natural Order , Rosaceje, (Juss.) (Sub-tribe Cercocarpew,) 
Linnsean Classification, Icosandria, Monogynia. 
Tube of the calyx cylindrical, elongated, the lower part persist- 
ent, the border hemispherical, 5-lobed, deciduous. Petals 
none. Stamens many, seated on the border of the calyx. 
Ovary solitary; style terminal, filiform and villous. Ache- 
nium narrow, coriaceous, caudate with the long persistent and 
enlarging plumose style. Seed linear. 
Shrubs or small trees, with alternate straight-veined, coriaceous, 
serrate or entire leaves on short petioles. Stipules small, adnate 
to the base of the petiole. Flowers small, white, axillary or ter- 
minating short branchlets, mostly clustered. 
FEATHER BUSIL 
CERCOCARPUS ledifolius, foliis crebris perennantibus 
lanceolatis integris demum glabris subtus tomentosis 
margine revolutis; Jloribus sessilibus panels fasciculatis ; 
cauda carpelorum longissimum tortuosum . — Nutt all in 
Torrey and Gray, Flor. Am. 1 . p. 427. Hooker ic. pi. tab. 
324. (ined.) 
We first observed this curious small tree in the Rocky 
Mountain range, on the lofty hills of Rear River of 
Timpanagos, near the celebrated “Beer Springs” which 
t The name derived from «ra K a tail, and a fruit, in refer- 
ence to the character of the fruit. 
