. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. SWEET-LEAF FAMILY. In fields and woods, Connecticut to Iowa, Kansas, Florida and Texas. Wood hard, brown ; weight per cubic foot 49 lbs. Jove's-fruit. Winter- or seeded-plum. Possum-wood. May-June. Fruit Family ii. SYMPLOCACEAE xMiers; Lindl. Veg. Kingd. Ed. 3, 593. 1853. Sweet-Leaf F.\mily. Trees or shrubs, with entire or dentate broad leaves, and small or
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. SWEET-LEAF FAMILY. In fields and woods, Connecticut to Iowa, Kansas, Florida and Texas. Wood hard, brown ; weight per cubic foot 49 lbs. Jove's-fruit. Winter- or seeded-plum. Possum-wood. May-June. Fruit Family ii. SYMPLOCACEAE xMiers; Lindl. Veg. Kingd. Ed. 3, 593. 1853. Sweet-Leaf F.\mily. Trees or shrubs, with entire or dentate broad leaves, and small or middle-sized regular mostly yellow and perfect flowers, in lateral or clusters. Calyx- tube completely or partly adnate to the ovary, its limb 5-lobed, the lobes imbricated in the bud. Corolla 5-parted, sometimes very nearly to the base, the segments imbricated. Disk none. Stamens numerous in several series, inserted on the base or tube of the corolla; filaments filiform, usually slightly united in clusters at the base of each corolla-segment; anthers innate, laterally dehiscent. Ovary 2-5-ceIled, inferior or partly superior; ovules commonly 2 in each cavity, pendu- lous ; style one; stigma one. Fruit a small mostly nearly dry drupe, usually with I oblong seed; embryo straight; endosperm fleshy. Only the following genus, comprising about 200 species, natives of America, Asia and Austral- asia, most abundant in South America. The following is the only known North American species. I. SYMPLOCOS Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 5, 24. 1760. Characters of the family. Type species: Symplocos martinicensis Jacq. [Greek, con- nected, referring to the stamens.] I. Symplocos tinctoria (L.) L'Her. Sweet-leaf. Horse-sugar. Fig. 3308. Hopca tinctoria L. Mant. 105. 1767. "^ 5'. tinctoria L'Her. Trans. Linn, Soc. i: 176. 1791. A shrub or small tree, sometimes attaining a height of 35° and a trunk diameter of 9'. Leaves rather coriaceous, oblong or slightly obovate, acute or acuminate
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