OLEACEAE (OLIVE FAMILY) 



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TRIENTALIS 



Low and smooth perennials, with simple erect stems, with a 

 few alternate, minute leaves below, and a whorl of thin veiny 

 leaves at the summit. The slender pe- 

 duncle bearing a delicate white and star- 

 shaped flower (without tube). Fila- 

 ments united into a ring at base. 



T. americana, STAR FLOWER. Spreading 

 by slender rootstocks, sometimes produc- 

 ing long stolons; leaves elongated-lance- 

 olate, tapering at both ends ; petals finely 

 pointed. Woods. May to July. 



DODECATHEON 



Trientalis americana, 

 Star flower. 



Smooth herb, with a cluster of basal 

 leaves. Simple, naked scape bearing an 



umbel of showy flowers nodding on slender pedicels. Corolla rose- 

 color or white with a very short tube, and reflexed long and nar- 

 row divisions. Filaments short, with long, 

 slender anthers approximate in a cone. 



D. Meadia, SHOOTING STAR. Leaves oblong or 

 spatulate, gradually narrowed at base. Woods 

 and moist cliffs. May, June. 



OIEACEAE (OLIVE FAMILY) 



Trees or shrubs, with opposite and pin- 

 nate or simple leaves, a ^-parted calyx and 

 corolla (sometimes apetalous), 2 stamens, 

 and a 2-celled ovary. 



Dodecatheon Meadia, FRAXINUS 



Shooting star. 



Trees, with pinnate leaves. Flowers 



small, mostly apetalous, in crowded panicles or racemes. Fruit 

 dry and winged (samara). 



