. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 632 MORACEAE. Vol., a filiform simple Jong-exserted style, the calyces becoming fleshy and enlarged in fruit, densely aggregated into a large globular head. Endosperm none; embryo curved. [Name Greek, signifying bow-wood.] A monotypic genus of the south-central United States; its name originally printed, by typo- graphical error, Ioxylon. i. Toxylon pomifer
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 632 MORACEAE. Vol., a filiform simple Jong-exserted style, the calyces becoming fleshy and enlarged in fruit, densely aggregated into a large globular head. Endosperm none; embryo curved. [Name Greek, signifying bow-wood.] A monotypic genus of the south-central United States; its name originally printed, by typo- graphical error, Ioxylon. i. Toxylon pomiferum Raf. Osage or Wild Orange. Fig. 1552. T. pomifetum Raf. Am. Month. Mag. 2:118. 1817. Madura aurantiaca Nutt. Gen. 2: 234. 1818. Madura pomifera Schneider, Handb. Laubh. 1: 806. 1906. A tree with ridged brown bark, and spreading branches; maximum height about 6o°, and trunk diameter 2i°; foliage puberulent when young, gla- brous when mature. Leaves ovate, ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong, glossy, entire, 3'-6' long, apex acuminate, base obtuse, truncate or subcordate; petioles ¥-2' long; axillary spines straight, some- times 3' long; staminate racemes i'-i' long, usually numerous; flowers about 1" broad; head of pistil- late flowers peduncled, pendulous, about 1' in diam- eter, ripening into a hard yellowish tubercled syncarp 2'-6' in diameter. In rich soil, Missouri and Kansas to Texas. Wood hard, very strong, dense, durable; color bright orange; weight per cubic foot 48 lbs. Much planted for hedges and occasionally spontaneous in the East. May-June. Fruit ripe Bow- or yellow-wood. Hedge- plant. Osage. Osage-apple. 3. PAPYRIUS Lam. Encycl. 3: 382. 1797. Tabl. Encycl. pi. 762. 1798. [Broussonetia L'Her; Vent. Tabl. 3: 547. 1799. Not Ortega, 1798.] Trees, with milky sap, the leaves alternate, petioled, entire, serrate, or 3-5-lobed, 3-nerved at the base. Flowers dioecious, the staminate in cylindric ament-Iike spikes, the pistillate capitate. Staminate flower
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