. Class-book of botany : being outlines of the structure, physiology, and classification of plants ; with a flora of the United States and Canada . Botany; Botany; Botany. 392 Obdeb 65.—COENACEiE. p. ASPERlFdLiA Feay. Lva. scabrous-piibescent above, downy beneath, rather inclined to elliptical; cymes soabroua.—S. and W. States. (0. asperifoUa Mx.) ' 8 C. circinata L. Branches verrucous; te. oriicular or very oval, white iomentous beneath; cymes spreadmg, depressed; drupes light blue.—A shrub some 6f high, Can. to Md., W. to Ind. St. grayish, upright, with opposite, cylin- drical, gree


. Class-book of botany : being outlines of the structure, physiology, and classification of plants ; with a flora of the United States and Canada . Botany; Botany; Botany. 392 Obdeb 65.—COENACEiE. p. ASPERlFdLiA Feay. Lva. scabrous-piibescent above, downy beneath, rather inclined to elliptical; cymes soabroua.—S. and W. States. (0. asperifoUa Mx.) ' 8 C. circinata L. Branches verrucous; te. oriicular or very oval, white iomentous beneath; cymes spreadmg, depressed; drupes light blue.—A shrub some 6f high, Can. to Md., W. to Ind. St. grayish, upright, with opposite, cylin- drical, green, spotted or warty branches. Lvs. large, about as broad as long, opposite, acuminate, crowned with a wliite, thick down on the under side. Fls. white. Berries hollowed at base, soft, crowned with the remains of the style. Jn. 2. HYSSA, L. (The name of a nympli or naiad, says Linnaeus.) TuLEPO, GuM-TBEK. Fls. dloecious or polygamous. ^ Calyx tube very short, limb truncate; petals 5, oblong; stam. 5—12, mostly 10, inserted outside a glandular disk in the bottom of the calyx; ovary 0. ? Calyx- tube oblong, adherent to the 1-celled ovary, limb truncate, a mere rim as in 3 ; petals 2—5, oblong, often 0 or soon deciduous; stam. mostly abortive; style large, stigmatic on one side; drupe oval, 1-seeded.—' Trees with small green, fls. clustered on axillary peduncles, the sterile more numerous. X N. multiflora Wang. Lvs. oblong-obovate, acutish or obtuse at each end, entire; the petiole, triidvein and margin villous; fertile peduncles 3 (2—h)-flowered; style revolute; nut short, obovate, striate, obtuse.—Woodlands dry or damp. U. S. A large tree, 30 to lOf in hight, trunk 1—3f diam. with a light gray hexagonally broken bark. Lvs. of a firm texture, 2—5' long, half as wide. $ Peduncles 5—9-flowered, fll. at length slender. Drupe often solitary, blackish blue, 5—6" long. Wood soft, but hard to split. Apr.—Jn. (N. aquatica and biflora, auth.) 2 N. uiiifiora W


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