. Botany, an elementary text for schools. Botany. UETICACE^ 303 TJ. racemdsa, Thomas. Cork elm. Fig. ^.jO. Smaller tree than the last, with corky-wiiii^t'd branches : leaves with struighter veins: samara with sharp incurved points at the apex: flowers in racemes. Less common. U. alata, Michx. Wohoo elm. Small tree, with wide, corky ridges on the branches: leaves small and rather thick, almost sessile, ovate to nearly lanceolate and acute: samara downy, at least when young. Virginia, south and west. 2. CELTIS. Nettle-Tree. Hackberry. Elm-like in looks, but the fruit a 1-seeded, berry-like drupe
. Botany, an elementary text for schools. Botany. UETICACE^ 303 TJ. racemdsa, Thomas. Cork elm. Fig. ^.jO. Smaller tree than the last, with corky-wiiii^t'd branches : leaves with struighter veins: samara with sharp incurved points at the apex: flowers in racemes. Less common. U. alata, Michx. Wohoo elm. Small tree, with wide, corky ridges on the branches: leaves small and rather thick, almost sessile, ovate to nearly lanceolate and acute: samara downy, at least when young. Virginia, south and west. 2. CELTIS. Nettle-Tree. Hackberry. Elm-like in looks, but the fruit a 1-seeded, berry-like drupe: flowers greenisli, in the leaf axils, mostly diclinous; calyx 5-G-parted; stamens 5 or (J: stii^nms 2, very long. C. occidentalis, Linn. Common huchhemj. Middle-sized tree with rough-furrowed bark: leaves ovate-pointed, oblique at base, serrate: fruit purplish, as large as a pea, edible in the fall when ripe. Low grounds. 3. T6XYL0N. Osage Orange. Small tree, with dioecious flowers in catkins, and alternate, simple leaves: sterile flowers in raceme like, deciduous catkins : fertile flowers densely crowded in a head, with 4 sepals and 2 stigmas, the ovary ripening into an akene, the whole flower-cluster beconi- ing flfsliv ami ripening into an orange-like ^ ^â -~. ^'t^- i^ ^^ â P^^'^iW^^ T. pomiierum, Kaf. (Machtru uiintntiaca, ^^^jr Nutt.). (ii'orunije. Fig. 4,")1. Spinv, low ,., ,â , .. ' â , â J''!- loxylou pouiifenuii. tree, mudi used for hedges, but not hardy in the northernmost states: leaves narrow-ovate and entire, glossy: flowers in spring after the leaves appear, the fruit ripening in autumn. M. and Kan., south. 4. MORUS. MlLBERRY. Small to middle-sized trees, with broad, alternate tontbi-d <.r Inlird leaves and mond-eious flowers, with 4-partcd calyx: stann-ns 4, with llla- ments at first bent inward, the staminate catkins soon falling: fertile ttow- s^^ ers ripening a single akene, but the entire catkin become (ieshy and blackberry-like, and
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