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MONCLCIA. 
N° o f 
Species ift 
N° Genera. 
Growth, species. Native of 
Britain. 
36 Li Wor e! la 
h 1 Dantzic 
Brit. 1 
37 Moms* 
t 7 China, America 
38 Serpicula 
h 2 India 
39 UrticaJ 
s & h 28 Canada, Cape 
Brit. 3 
ORDER V. PENTANDRIA. 
(five males.) 
40. Amaranthus 
h 24 Ganges, &c. 
Brit. 1 
41 Ambrosia 
h 4 Virginia 
42 Chayote 
h 1 
43 Clibadium 
1 Surinam 
44 Iva 
s & h 2 America 
43 Leea 
s 2 Cape, India 
46 Melicytus 
s 1 
47 IS ephelium 
s 1 India 
48 Parthenium 
h 2 Jamaica 
49 Xanthium 
s & h 5 E. Indies 
Brit. 1 
ORDER VI. HEXANDRIA. 
(six males,) 
' 
Calyx glume, nonei 
50 Bactris 
1 
51 Pometia 
h 1 
# Mr. Evelyn, in his Sylva , says that the timber of the mulberry tree (morus) 
will last in water as long as the most solid oak and that it suffers no kind of ver¬ 
min to breed on it, whether standing or felled, nor does it harbour any caterpillar, 
except the silk-worm. The greatest part of the paper in Japan and China is made 
©f the bark of the mulberry paper-tree Cmorus papyrifera), but besides this, they 
use the bamboo reed, the cotton shrub, hemp, and the straw of wheat and rice, &c. 
In general only the bark of trees and shrubs is used, but of bamboo and cotton 
shrub lie woody part is employed: but the best and most esteemed paper is made 
from cotton. 
f The three British species of urtica are the urtica pilulifera (the Roman stinging 
nettle), urtica urens (the annual stinging nettle), and urtica dioica (the perennial 
stinging nettle) : and their stinging is said to be performed in the same way as in 
insects ; by a bag at the base, and a perforation near the point, through which is 
ejected the deleterious fluid. 
