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its fiber which is made into cloth and cordage, and as a source of a narcotic 
drug—hashish. 
Famity 3. ARTOCARPACEHAE — MULBERRY FAMILY 
Shrubs or tre he sap milky. — es mostly alternate: blades 
equilateral, n Wu md or lobed. Flowers monoecious or dioecious, in 
ament-like spikes or sed i NUN the staminate wit 
stamens, the pistillate with a calyx of 3-5 sepa hieh greatly enlarge 
and su d or enve the achene: gynoecium of united carpels; 
styles or stigmas n syconium.—Ab 
genera and 1000 species, natives of tropical and Sii regions.—Our 
species have flowers with a green or greenish calyx 
ungere i dn pistillate flowers on the outside of a receptacle: style or stigma ter- 
Stig as 2, short: pistillate spike cylindric Tribe MORE 
Stigma solitary, elongate: pistillate ‘spike | g lobos Tribe iE PATLICAN: 
Staminate and pistillate flowers on the inside of a oade: 
style lateral. Tribe III. FICEAE. 
I. MOR 
Widely branched shrubs and trees, the pies spikes becoming 
succulent, white, pink, purple, or nearly black. 1. MORBUS. 
II. Pap 
E EE spikes cylindric: achene O a. "Jeaf-blades toothed 
or lo 2. PAPYRIUS. 
Staminate spikes globose: achene deeply imbedded: leaf-blades 
entir 3. TOXYLON. 
III. FICEAE 
Shrubs and trees with milky sap, often producing copious aerial 
roots. 4. Ficus. 
1. MORUS [Tourn.] L. Shrubs or trees, with ed bark. is decid- 
uous: blades commonly serrate, sometimes lobed. Sta e flowers cylin 
drie spikes, with 4 sepals and 4 stamens. Pistillate iios cylindric: us 4, 
the lateral ones larger than the others: stigmas 2, short. Fruit KM. the 
achenes included in the calyx.—About 10 species, natives of the northern 
hemisphere.— The inner = furnishes a fiber that has been used ou pre- 
historie times.—MULBERR 
eel white or pinkish. 1l. M. alba. 
Syncarp black at maturity. 2. M. nigra. 
Leaf blades softly pubescent beneath. 3. M. rubra. 
' 1. M. alba L. Tree 5-12 m. tall, with sparingly pubescent twigs: leaf-blades 
ovate to oval or Aes 2 6-20 em. long, becoming glabrous beneath: 
staminate spikes 1—2 . lo P fruit E 
globose Me ovaLoblong, T 2 em. long, white 
or pin HITE- MULBERRY.) — — Road- 
sides, fields anl thickets, various Pm 
Ga. to ban Minn. and Me. Nat. of Eu. 
Spr.- 
2. M. nigra L. Shrub, or tree sometimes 
becoming 8 m. tall, with pubescent twigs: 
leaf-blades ovate, 4—15 em. long, abruptly 
short-pointed, becoming glabrous, but usu- 
ally rough above: staminate spikes 1—2 cm. 
fruits oval-oblon 2 ong, 
— (BLACK-MULBERRY ce- 
rows, roadsides and ste s er 
provinees, Fla. to Tex. anon! Te t. of Eurasia.—Spr. 
