. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. 400 MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS LEITNERIALES Shrubs or trees with entire, petioled, simple leaves; flowers in catkins; staminate flowers subtended by what appears to be a perianth; sepals 3-4; ovary 1-celled; style slender; endosperm thin. Only one family, the Leitnerl- aceae, which consists of a single genus Leitneria, v/ith perhaps 2 species. L. floridana occurs in swamps in southern Missouri to Texas and Florida and pro- duces a wo
. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. 400 MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS LEITNERIALES Shrubs or trees with entire, petioled, simple leaves; flowers in catkins; staminate flowers subtended by what appears to be a perianth; sepals 3-4; ovary 1-celled; style slender; endosperm thin. Only one family, the Leitnerl- aceae, which consists of a single genus Leitneria, v/ith perhaps 2 species. L. floridana occurs in swamps in southern Missouri to Texas and Florida and pro- duces a wood lighter than cork, probably the lightest wood known. JUGLANDALES Trees with alternate, pinnately-compound leaves; flowers monoecious, brac- teolate; the staminate in long drooping catkins; pistillate solitary or several to- gether; staminate flowers of 3-many stamens with or without a perianth; peri-. ^ Fig. 182. Black Walnut (Juglans nigra). 1. Flowering branch. .. Staminate flower before- anthesis, enjargecl. 3. Staminate flower, enlarged. 4. Perianth of staminate flower, enlarged. S. Stamen, enlarged. 6. Pistillate flower, natural size. 7. I<angitudinal section of pistillate flower, natural size. 8. Leaf, reduced. 9. Win- ter branchlet. 10. Mature fruit. 11. Walnut with husk removed. 1, 9, 10, U, one-half natural size. M. M. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Pammel, L. H. (Louis Hermann), 1862-1931. Cedar Rapids, Ia. , The Torch Press
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