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is very common ; It produces reddish berries, which 
were formerly employed to deepen the colour of red 
wines. 
■CLASS XI. 
DODECANDRIA. 
With stamens from twelve to twenty, and divided 
into six orders. 
'Order I. ' MonogyniA. 
As arvm Europceum, Asarabacea. Cal. three«cleft» 
Sitting on the germen y cor. none ; stamens twelve; 
caps, leathery, six-celled, crowned ; stigma six-cleft ; 
leaves kidney-formed, obtuse, in pairs. Perennial; 
flowers in May, and is a native of the woods of the 
north of England, but rare. The dried root in powder 
is employed to provoke sneezing and the flow of mucus 
in the nostrils. 
Rhizopiioea Mangle, Mangrove. Cal. four-parted, 
inferior; cor. four-parted ; seed one, club-shaped ; a 
fleshy receptacle ; leaves acute ; native of Jamaica, and 
rises to the height of SO or 4-0, and even 50 feet. The 
Mangrove-tree Is generally found on the borders of the 
sea, in whose waters only it seems to thrive, and In such 
places as have a soft bottom. The larger branches 
"throw out soft leafless shoots, which bend downward, and 
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