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AMCECIA 
N° Genera. 
Growth. 
N° of 
species. Native of 
Species In 
Bfitain. 
56 Napaea 
h 
£ Virginia 
57 Taxus* 
t 
4 America 
Brit. 1 
58 Ephedra 
Male amentum . 
s 2S Spain 
59 Juniperusf 
s 
10 Barbadoesj China 
Brit. I 
ORDER 'XIV. SYNGENESIA. 
(confederate males.) 
Stamina united at the top. 
Calyx six-leaved. 
6$ Ruscusf s 5 Italy, Spain Brit. I 
ORDER XV. GYNANDRIA. 
(feminine males.) 
The stamina growing on a sort of style, or imperfect pistillum * 
Calyx Jive-leaved. 
01 Clutia s 9 Africa 
* Tarns baccdta (the common yew tree) is very deleterious to cattle, but they 
will not eat the young shoots as they grow, but only when cut off and beginning 
to wither, as they then lose part of their acrimony, but there is often sufficient 
poison left in_them to destroy the animal. Phytologia . 
f Olibanum (a gum resin) is from a species of juniperus, called juniperus lyciaj 
and the sandarack resin is from the juniperus communis, which being dissolved in 
oil of turpentine, or linseed oil, or spirit of wine, is the common varnish ; and be¬ 
ing reduced to powder, is the pounce commonly used. The cedar of Bermudas 
(juniperus bermudianq) in which black-lead perils are enclosed, is not eaten by 
any insect. 
I The ruscus is a very singular plant as to its mode of flowering, which I shall 
instance in the ruscus aculeatus, which is the only British species of this genus J 
it appears to have its flower protruded from about the middle of the upper surface 
of the leaf, yet hath a perfect peduncle, which is connected with the wood of the 
branch, at the bosom of the leaf 5 but being covered with the exterior coat, or 
epidermis of the leaf, is scarcely visible to the eye, but is very apparent in the rus¬ 
cus hypoglossum, Linnaeus enumerates five species, viz.: 
Ruscus aculeatus, .. Leaves flower-bearing above, naked. 
. . hypophyllum, Leaves flower-bearing underneath, naked. 
.. hypoglossum, Leaves flower-bearing above, under a foliole or 
leaflet, called by Linnaeus under-tongue . 
--, androgynus,. . Leaves flower-bearing on the margin, 
. racemosus, .. Raceme terminal, monodinian. 
