236 DIOECIA SYNGENESIA. 
EIYDROCHARIS. Frog-bit. 
Majculine. 
The fpatha hath three flowers with oblong leaves. 
-The proper cup is triphyllous, and the leaves are oblong, 
concave, with a membranaceous margin. The fiower 
hath three roundifh, plain, large petals. There are nine 
fubulated, eredt (lamina arranged in three orders. The 
rudiment of the germen is in the center. 
Feminine, 
The fpatha, cup, and flowers are the fame as the 
mafeuline. The germen is roundifh and beneath the 
flower-, there are fix (lyies the length of the cup, com.- 
prefTed, Bifido-canaiiculatcd, having two bifid, acumina- 
ted (ligmata: The capfule is coriaceous, roundifh, and 
has fix cells containing many flnall roundifli feeds. 
STNGF^E.SI A comprehends fuch plants as have their 
7nale flowers flurniflied with ftamina,, ofl which the anthers 
are united. Ofl this order there is hut one Genus ; vi%, 
R U S C U S. Knee-holly, or Butcher’s Broom. 
Mafleuline. 
The cup confiils ot fix leaves v/hicli are ovate and 
convex. There are no flower petals, unlefs you reckon 
the alternate leaves of the cup as fuch. The nedlarium 
is ovate, the fize of the cup, inflated and eredl. There 
are no filaments and but three patent antheras upon the 
apex of the nedlarium and united at the bafe. 
. Feminine. 
The cup, petal, and ne< 5 larium are the fame as the 
mafeuline: The germen is partly oblong, and partly 
eval with the nedlarium. The ftyle is cylindraceous 
and the length of the nedlarium. The fligma is obtufe. 
The fruit is a globofe, trilocular berry, containing two 
j^lobofe feeds. 
to 
Aculeatus. Knee-holly^ or ButcheAs Broom of which we 
ha/e but one fpecies. Bien. March^ April. ^ ■ 
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