. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. epals, which have be-come coalesced by pressure; testa of seed hard,brittle; embryo hooked — Trees with milkyjuice, and alternate leaves. 1. M. nigra, L. 5 Sycamine. IVd- iiipe fruit of a Stole. Leaves cordate-ovate, lobed SeS^sTiSstigmS-or undivided, .1 to .15 long. Fruiting spikes subsessile; fruit oblong, .02 to .03 long, acid; margin of sepals andstigmas villous — Early summer — Cultivated everywhere for its deli-cious berries. 2. M. alba, L. 5 Mulberry.
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. epals, which have be-come coalesced by pressure; testa of seed hard,brittle; embryo hooked — Trees with milkyjuice, and alternate leaves. 1. M. nigra, L. 5 Sycamine. IVd- iiipe fruit of a Stole. Leaves cordate-ovate, lobed SeS^sTiSstigmS-or undivided, .1 to .15 long. Fruiting spikes subsessile; fruit oblong, .02 to .03 long, acid; margin of sepals andstigmas villous — Early summer — Cultivated everywhere for its deli-cious berries. 2. M. alba, L. 5 Mulberry. TiU heledi. 5 to 8. Leaves cor-date-ovate, usually oblique at base, entire, serrate, or lobed, .1 to .2long. Peduncles as long as fruiting spikes; fruit oblong, .01 to .015long, sioeetish, insipid; margin of sepals glahrous; stigmas glalrous orshort-2)apiUose — ElsLYly summer — Cultivated everywhere for its leaves,which are used as food for silk-worms. 4. nCUS, L. Fig. monoecious or dioecious, inserted on the inner wall of afleshy, hollow, globular-pyriform receptacle, which is bracted at base, 95. 730 VRTICACE^. (KETTLE FAMILY.) umbilicate at apex, and has a narrow, open mouth, furnished withscales. Staminate flowers: sepals 3-5; stamens 3-6, filaments straightin the bud. Pistillate flowers: perigonium 5-fid; ovary 1-celled, stylelateral, stigmas 3 or 1; fruit consisting of the fleshy receptacle, andminute, crustaceous, 1-secded utricles; testa of seed membranous;embryo incurved — Trees with milky juice and alternate leaves, appear-ing with fruit. F. €ariea, L. 5 Fig. Tin. 8 to 5. Leaves deciduous, petioled,scabrous at upper surface, pubescent or velvety at lower, ovate, cordate atbase, o-5-lobed, repand, rarely undivided, . 1 to. 3 long and broad. Figssolitary, in or above axils, on the last yeafs Iranches^ short-peduncled,pyriform to globular, tapering at base to a stalk as long as fig, or desti-tute of stalk — Summer—Common in the wild state,
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