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Rustic Work

an imitation of rough or primitive work; furniture for summer houses and lawns, made of limbs and trees, taking advantage of natural crooks to form the shapes desired.

RUTACEÆ, rueworts; the typical order of Rutales; trees, shrubs, or rarely herbs, with opposite or alternate, simple or compound leaves, covered with pellucid resinous dots; calyx in four or five divisions; petals as many, distinct or combined into a tube, or wanting; tribes, Cusparieæ, Pilocarpeæ, Boronicæ, Eudiosmeæ, Dictamnex, Ruteæ, and perhaps Cneorex. Genera, according to Lindley, 47; species, 400.

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