. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Bladdernut 637 shaped flowers are in axillary drooping panicles 5 to 10 cm. long, white and rather showy; the pedicels are jointed at or above the middle, 8 to 12 mm. long; the 5 sepals are lanceolate to oblong, 7 to 10 mm. long, blunt and smooth; the 5 petals are spatulate, slightly longer than the calyx; stamens 5, their filaments about equal. Fig. 587. — Bladdernut. in length to the petals and haiiy. The fruit is a dry
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Bladdernut 637 shaped flowers are in axillary drooping panicles 5 to 10 cm. long, white and rather showy; the pedicels are jointed at or above the middle, 8 to 12 mm. long; the 5 sepals are lanceolate to oblong, 7 to 10 mm. long, blunt and smooth; the 5 petals are spatulate, slightly longer than the calyx; stamens 5, their filaments about equal. Fig. 587. — Bladdernut. in length to the petals and haiiy. The fruit is a dry inflated bladder-like, ovoid capsule 4 to 6 cm. long, 3-lobed, and notched at the apex; seeds few, about 3 mm. long, light brown and shining. The generic type is Staphylea pinnata Linnaeus, of Europe; the name is Greek, in reference to the flower clusters. There is one other species in our area, the California bladdernut, Staphylea Bolanderi A. Gray. The European bladdemuts, Staphylea colchica Stevan, and S. pinnata are occasionally seen in parks and on 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 Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Shafer, John Adolph. New York : H. Holt and Co.
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