156 
MGNCECIA. 
N° Genera. 
62 Sagittaria 
63 Theligonum 
64 Xylosma 
N° of 
Growth. Species. Native of 
h 5 America, China 
h 1 Italy 
1 
Species in 
Britain. 
Brit. 1 
Amentum imbricated . 
65 Carpinus 
66 Corylus 
67 Juglans* * 
s 2 America 
§ 3 Europe 
t 5 America 
Brit. 1 
Brit, j 
' 
Amentum globular . 
68 Platan us 
t 2 E. & W. Indies 
ORDER IX. MO^NABELPHIA. 
(one brotherhood.) 
Stamina united at the base. 
69 Acalypha 
70 Crotonf 
71 Cupania 
72 Dalechampia 
73 Heritiera 
h 5 Virginia, India 
s & h 23 Japan, America, Cape 
s 1 America 
s 2 America 
s 1 Zeylon 
from whence they ascended perfectly straight, with a gradual taper, forty or fifty 
feet to the limbs; the bark (called the quercitron bark) is found to afford a valuably 
yellow dye; discovered by Edward Bancroft, M. D. F. R.S. who obtained an ex¬ 
clusive privilege for importing, using, and vending it. Professor Martin is of 
opinion that our common English oak (quercus robur) produces by much the best 
timber of any of the species; the leaves are deciduous, have no foot-stalks, and the 
acorns generally grow single, or at most two together,, on long foot-stalks.—There 
is also an oak, not uncommon in England, which hath the leaves on foot-stalks, 
and the acorns in clusters, sitting close to the branch; but the timber is much in¬ 
ferior. In some counties the woodmen call it durmast . 
* It is said that if a seedling plant of the walnut (juglans), or the mulberry (mo¬ 
rns), or any other trees that are many years before they bear fruit, are ingrafted 
with scions taken from a fruit-bearing trea of the same kind, that they will bear 
fruit in a very few years. 
f In China are many plantations of the croton sebiferum (tallow tree) of which 
the Chinese make their candles, which are of a superior quality; this tree is there 
called latchoo , and is remarkable for the beauty of its appearance; it is the size of 
an apple tree, having scarlet leaves edged with yellow, and blossoms of a pale pur¬ 
ple.— Macartney 9 s Embassy , printed in 1795. The stone of the fruit is surrounded 
by a white pulp, which hath all the properties of true tallow, both as to consistence, 
colour, and even smell. 
