EMPETRACEAE 807 
FAMiy2. HMPETRACEAE — Cnow-sEeRRY FAMILY 
Shrubs, mostly resembling heaths. Leaves alternate or whorled, some- 
times numer and crowded. Flowers dioecious or rarely polygamous 
C 2 or 3 als. Corolla of 2 or 3 petals, or wantin ndroe- 
cium of 2-4, mostly 3 stamens. Gynoec of 2-several united carpels.— 
Three genera and few species, but ee distributed. 
1. CERATIOLA Michx. Evergreen shrubs. Leaf-blades narrow, revo- 
2 and thus e tubular. Flowers 2 or 3 in an axil. Sepals 2. Petals 
tamens Ovary 2-eelled. Drupe with 
: nutlets.—One species. 
1. C. ericoides Michx. Shrub 3-15 
tal: leaves crowded and spreading, 8- 
m. long: flowers red or yellowish: sepals 
bout 1 mm. long: A go digas pio 
subglobose, 2-3 m n diameter, yellow 
red.—(RosEM c zs pi SER Amd 
hills, and serub, often in very acid so oil, | 
somewhat uncertain io but asso- 
ciated en as E iba es of northern 
North hee mbles the heaths in 
habit in n pre pleasant aroma 
it gives off. It has two deadly enemies. Throughout its range fire has de- 
veni vast areas of it, while in bd peninsular cues Ani parasitic woevine 
(Cassytha) is equally as destructive.—Spec o collected at 
Palma Sola, Florida, have been described as C. icio m. Gandoger 
Famity 3. SPONDIACEAE — Sumac FAMILY 
hrubs, trees, or vines, with a milky, resinous, often se or caustic 
. s alternate: blades simple or pinnately compou Flow 
monoecious, ecious, or polygamous. Calyx of 3-6 ae, Corolla of 
3—5 petals , larger than the Ras — ia roecium ue ey or rarely more, 
a Gynoe ecium of 1, ur 5.m r less ted carpels. Fruit a 
drupe or a berry.—Sixty UR and 500 RU. euet tropical. 
Gynoecium 1-earpellary: style single: ovary on a swollen receptacle: leaves with 
simple blades I. MANGIFEREAE. 
Gynoecium 3- Een pella: styles or stigmas 3: ovary not on a 
swollen receptacle: leaves with simple or compound blades. II. RHOEDEAE. 
I. MANGIFEREAE 
Trees with narrow leaf-blades and Nor Pun rs. 1. MANGIFERA. 
II. RHOEDEAB 
Ovary, and drupe, very oblique: style laterally oblique: leaves 
with broad E blades 2. COTINUS. 
Ovary, and drupe, nor oblique: style terminal: leaves with 
Compound. bla 
Drupe somewhat Slo ate, the coats permanently united. 3. METOPIUM. 
Drupe pera ne coats ultimately separating. 
Dru a glabrous or sparingly pubescent outer 
a re E ribbed. 4. TOXICODENDRON. 
Drupe with a copiously pubescent outer coat: stone 
TUIS polygamous, in terminal thyrsoid panicles 
x adi after the leaves. 
Flowers polygamo-dioecious, in solitary or clustered 
Spi ikes in the axils, before the leaves. 6. SCHMALTZIA. 
B 
RHUS. 
