An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language . igs which aremore than a year old. New England and westward. 2. CELTIS, L. While the leaves of the elms have a single main vein extending throughthe center from which feather veins run from each side with muchregularity, in Celtis the leaves have 3 main veins with lesser veinscoursing in various directions. Flowers greenish, the staminate in clus-ters of several flowers, the pistillate solitary or 2 or 3 together. Caly
An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language . igs which aremore than a year old. New England and westward. 2. CELTIS, L. While the leaves of the elms have a single main vein extending throughthe center from which feather veins run from each side with muchregularity, in Celtis the leaves have 3 main veins with lesser veinscoursing in various directions. Flowers greenish, the staminate in clus-ters of several flowers, the pistillate solitary or 2 or 3 together. Calyxof 4 to 6 segments. Fruit a globular berry. 1. C. occidentalis, L. (Fig. 6, pi. 30.) American Nettle Tree resembling an elm witli sweet fruit. Leaves egg-shaped with reticulate veinings from 3 main veins; serrations single,coarse. Staminate flowers numerous on drooping pedicels; pistillateusually solitary. Some of the flowers have both stamens and pistils. Var. 0. occidrnialis crassifolia, Lam. IIackukrry. Tree or slirub withdowny twigs and egg-shaped leaves which ar( rough above. Otherwisemuch like C occidentalis. New York and southward. ELiM FAMILY 193. Plate 301. Phoradendron flavescens. 2. Aristoloclua Serpentaria. 3. Asarum cana-dense. 4. Ulmus americaiia. 5. Staminate flowers of U. Celtis occidentalis. 7. Morus alba. 194 MORACEAE Family II.— MORACEAE. Mulberry Family Trees and shrubs with alternate, dentate leaves which are oftenlobed. Stamens and pistils in different flowers, both kinds onthe same tree or on different trees. Stamen bearing flowers ona long, pendulous spike arising from the leaf axils, each flower4-parted with 4 stamens. Pistillate flowers also in pendulousclusters, the ovary becoming succulent and sweet, the aggregationconstituting the berry. Juice milky. I. MORUS, Genus has the characters of the family. 1. M. rubra, L. Red Mulberry. Leaves broad, egg-shaped, some-what heart-shaped at base, rough above, silky beneath
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