. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Drummond's Soapberry 665 and somewhat hairy beneath. The flowers appear in early spring, the dense and upright finely hairy clusters i to 2 dm. long; the sepals are round, blunt, about 2 mm. broad, the petals broadly obovate, about 3 mm. long, and hairy-fringed; the stamens of staminate flowers are about as long as the petals, those of pistillate flowers shorter; the filaments are hairy; the ovary is ovoid. The lipe fruit
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Drummond's Soapberry 665 and somewhat hairy beneath. The flowers appear in early spring, the dense and upright finely hairy clusters i to 2 dm. long; the sepals are round, blunt, about 2 mm. broad, the petals broadly obovate, about 3 mm. long, and hairy-fringed; the stamens of staminate flowers are about as long as the petals, those of pistillate flowers shorter; the filaments are hairy; the ovary is ovoid. The lipe fruits are globular, 10 to 18 mm. in diameter, shining, the pulp orange-brown, the seed black, obovoid. The wood is dense, light brown, heavy, its specific gravity being about The tree is known also as False dogwood. 2. FLORIDA SOAPBERRY—Sapindus marginatus WiUdenow An inhabitant of moist sandy soil in Florida, this tree attains a maximum height of about 10 meters, with a trunk 3 dm. in diameter; its branches are nearly erect. It was first discovered in Georgia, but is not at present known to grow in that State; it has also been reported as occurring on the coast of South Carolina. The bark is light brown, the young twigs finely hairy, becoming smooth and pale gray. The leaves are hairy when young, becoming smooth or nearly so, and have 7 to 13 leaflets; the leaf-rachis is not winged, but is some- times narrowly margined; the leaflets are lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, somewhat scythe-shaped, long-pointed, short-stalked, 5 to 15 cm. long, un- equal-sided, bright green above, paler on the under side; the flower-clusters are hairy, 3 dm. long or less; the flowers are 4 or 5 mm. wide, opening in May and June; the sepals are oval or nearly orbicular, blunt, the petals ovate or oval, hairy, with 2 basal appendages^ and are longer than the sepals. The fruit is globular or oval, to 2 cm. long, keeled on the back, the pulp light yellow or orange, the seed brown and F
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