Amentaceaz^ 
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This species, although it sometimes bears a head of flowers, ne¥er seems to present the aggregated 
appearance of the last one, nor of the E. latifolium, Sm., from which it is truly distinct. The long petiolated 
leaves are seated at the apex of a short ramification } but the greater number of them are radical. 
Ord. XLIL LAURINE^. Juss. 
1. Tetranthera? Californica; foliis perennantibus oblongo-lanceolatis vix acutis penni- 
nerviis reticulato-venosis glabris, pedunculis axillaribus simplicibus, floribus pluribus involu- 
cratis hermaphroditis ? 
Involucrum tetraphyllum, deciduum. PeriantMum hexaphyUum ; foliola subrotunda concava peUucido- 
punctata. Stamina 12, duplici ordine dispositai 6 exteriora, antheris introrsis; interiorum tria, foliolis 
calycinis exterioribus opposita, fertilia, antheris extrorsis ; tria, laciniis interioribus opposita, subulata, absque 
antheris, Glandulce sex, magn®, subrotundse, angulatse inter staminum interiorum exteriorumque series, 
bisque alternantes. Antherm d-loculares. Germen ovatum, in stylum brevem apice subuncinatum attenua- 
tum ; stigma subcapitatum. 
The flowers are too little advanced to permit us to ascertain whether the pistiUum becomes fertile, and 
the plant consequently hermaphrodite : it however appears to us to be so. The inflorescence and involu- 
crum are those of a Tetranthera, while the hermaphrodite flowers, and somewhat capitate stigma allies our plant 
to Ocotea. In one specimen we have observed the remains of the calyx after the drupe has fallen away, 
from which it appears to be cupuliform, entire, coriaceous, and persistent. The peduncle is monocarpic, or 
bears but one fruit, and is much shorter than the leaves. 
Ord. XLIIL EUPHORBIACE^. Juss. 
1. E. Peplus. Linn,. 
The specimens differ somewhat from the Europeean ones, by the leaves being rough, although scarcely 
serrated on the margin, and by having a slight mucro. The glands of the involucrum are lunate and two- 
horned, otherwise our specimens might have been referred to E. marginata, Ph, 
Ord. XLIV. URTICE^. Juss. 
1 . Urtica f 
The imperfect state of the specimen prevents us from ascertaining whether or not this belongs to the 
arborescent tribe. The leaves are opposite, varying from ovate, with a slightly cordate base, to oblongo- 
lanceolate and accuminated. They are deeply serrated, slightly hairy above, with a few rigid stinging 
bristly hairs intermixed, which are more abundant on the petioles : beneath they are provided with a short 
white villous pubescence. Spikes of flowers crowded at the axillae of the leaves, slightly branched, pen- 
diflous. Fruit ovate ; style none ; stigma sessile, penicillate. 
XLV. AMENTACE^. Juss. 
1. Salix Hoffmanniana. Sm. 
The specimens, which are without the inflorescence, and consist only of the old branches with leaves, 
agree perfectly with the above plant, but we are not aware of its being an American species, as well as 
Europsean. There is a gland or two at the base of the leaf, on each side of the petiole, and the base has no 
sinus, as in S. cordata, Muhl., in Koen. Ann. of Bot. v. 2. p. 64. t. 5. f. 3., to which otherwise the leaf bears 
the strongest resemblance. 
1. Populus balsamifera. Linn. 
