TETRAND. DIGYN. 269—271. 
247 
Cruzita. 
South America* Stevi high : leaves oppohtc> lanceolate, entire . 
fimiers fpiked, colleacd into a panicle. 
269. BUFFONIA. Calyx core/ 4-petalled: 
, eapfule i -celled, a-feeded. 
Buffonia. 
Sea coalb. Pluk. “i- Alfine, 
270. HAMAMELIS. Involucre 3-leaved:' proper 
calyx 4-leaved: petals 4: nut 2 -horned, 2- 
celled. Witch-hazel. 
* * 
Ha MAMELIS. 
Virginia, Catejly Carol, 3* t. 2* Duham.arb. i, A 114. 
Stem woody : leaves oval, indented, alternate. 
271. CUSCUTA. Calyx 4 or 5-cleft, inferior: corol 
i-petalled, 4 or 5 -cleft: 2-celled, opening 
^ tranfverlely at the bafe. ' Dodder. 
Flowers nearly feflile: corol with a naked throat: ftig- 
mata acute. 
, On nettles, &c. Eng.Bot. t. 378. Flor.Dan. t. 199. £/. /• 554 - 
Flowers feffile: (lamina with a crenate fcale at the bafe of 
each; (ligmata acute. 
Heaths. Eng. Bat. t. 55. defcrip. at p. 378. 
‘tantt. Flowers peduncled, umbelled, 5-cleft. 
Virginia. Sloaneyam. i, p, 2QI. t. 
Plant twining, leaflefs, (hining, yellowifti: fmall, aggre- 
gate, yellowifli or greenilh : caljx 5-cleft; corol 5-cleit. 
Peduncles i-flowered; corol 5-cleft, 
The Cape. Fhunb. prodr. '^ 2 . Willden. \. f, 
Peduncles with a lanceolate brafte at the bafe : fiovsers 5-male. 
Flowers peduncled, with a (ingle (lyle. 
The Baft. Krock. Silef. t. 36. Buxb. cent. 1, t. 23- 
Stigma fubglobular : feeds 4, compreffed. 
Flowers panicled: 5-cleft: calyx angular, as long as the 
corol. 
China. Lamarck, encycl. 2. p. 228. Willd, l.p, 704. 
F/o.u;frj in loofe fafcicles, white: /lamina^. 
*** Flowers on (bort peduncles, 5-clcft, 5-male ; the fegments 
of the corol refledled : 5-bearded fcales furrounding t ic 
germ and inferred into the bottom of the tube. 
