. The commonly occuring wild plants of Canada [microform] : a flora for the use of beginners. Botany; Plants; Botanique; Plantes. 194 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 11 honey-yellow in lateral umbel-like clusters, before the leaves. Stamens very much as in Sassafras, but the anthers are 2-celled and 2-valved. Pistillate flowers with 15-18 rudi- ments of stamens. Drupe red.—Dami^>woods, in early spring. Order LXXX. THYMELEA'CEiE. (Mezereum F.) Slyubs with tough leather-like bark and entire leaves. Flowers perfect. Calyx tubular, resembling a corolla, pale yellow. Stamens twice as many as the lo
. The commonly occuring wild plants of Canada [microform] : a flora for the use of beginners. Botany; Plants; Botanique; Plantes. 194 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 11 honey-yellow in lateral umbel-like clusters, before the leaves. Stamens very much as in Sassafras, but the anthers are 2-celled and 2-valved. Pistillate flowers with 15-18 rudi- ments of stamens. Drupe red.—Dami^>woods, in early spring. Order LXXX. THYMELEA'CEiE. (Mezereum F.) Slyubs with tough leather-like bark and entire leaves. Flowers perfect. Calyx tubular, resembling a corolla, pale yellow. Stamens twice as many as the lobes of the calyx (in our species 8). Style thread-like. Stigma capitate. Ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled, free from the calyx. Fruit a berry-like drupe. Only one Species in Canada. DIRCA, L. Leatherwood. Moose-wood. 1. D. palustris, L. A branching shrub, 2-5 feet high, with curious jointed branchlets and nearly oval leaves on short petioles. Flowers in clusters of 3 or 4, preceding the leaves. Filaments exserted, half of them longer than the others.— Damp woods. 2. Daphne Meze'reum, L., has escaped from cultivation ill a few places. A low shrub with purple, rose-coloured or whitish flowers, preceding the leaves in early spring. Order LXXXI. EL^AGNA'CEiE. (Oleaster F.) Shrubs with perfect or dioecious flowers, and leaves which are scurfy on the under surface. The calyx-tube in the iextWe ^ovf&rs becomes fieshy and encloses the ovary^ forming a herry-lihe fruit. Otherwise the plants of this Order are not greatly different from those of the last. Syu'i> Is f the Genera. 1. Elseag'iinH* Flowers ]ierfeci. ''tainens4. Leaves alternate. 2. Shepherd'la. Flowers uioeci .3. Stamens 8. Leaves opposite. 1. EL;EAG'XIJS,Tourn. E. argen'tea, Pursh. (Silver-Berry.) Shrub 6-12 feet high, the young branches covered with rusty scales. Leaves elliptical to lanceolate, silvery-scurfy. Flowers many,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitall
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