LmiODENDRON 97 



25-50 m. high, 1-3 m. in diameter; twigs red-brown; terminal 

 buds 1. 2 cm. long, shaped somewhat like a duck's bill; cone of 

 fruit dry, oblong, acute, 7.5 cm. long. Rich soil, Massachusetts 

 to Ontario and Michigan, south to Florida, Louisiana, and Arkan- 

 sas (Fig. 106). 



CALYCANTHUS L. (Calytanthaceae) 



Aromatic deciduous shrubs, sparingly branched. Twigs 

 moderate, compressed at the nodes; pith relatively large, some- 

 what 6-sided, white, continuous. Buds several in a single bud-like 

 aggregate, sessile, round, brown-hairy, without evident scales. 

 Leaf-scars opposite, horseshoe-shaped, raised; bundle-traces 3; 

 stipule- scars none. 



All parts of the plants and particularly the dried wood yield a 

 pleasant fragrance, suggesting the common names Sweet-Scented 

 Shrub, or Sweet Shrub (or sometimes merely "Shrub"). 



a. Twigs glabrescent or puberulous 1. C. fertilis 



a. Twigs more or less persistently 



villous 2. C. floridus 



1. C^ iertilis Walt. Smooth Strawberry-Shrub . A branching 

 shrub 12-27 dm. high, the branchlets glabrescent or slightly 

 puberulous. Rich woods in the mountains, Georgia and Alabama, 

 north to Pennsylvania (Fig. 107). 



2. C^ floridus L. Hairy Strawberry-Shrub. A branching 

 shrub 6-27 dm. high, the branchlets more or less persistently 

 villous. Rich woods, Florida to Mississippi, north to Virginia and 

 West Virginia (Fig. 108). 



ASIMINA AdanSo (Annonaceae) 



Deciduous shrubs or small trees. Twigs rounded, moderate; 

 pith round, white, continuous, with firmer greenish plates at in- 

 tervals in the second year's growth, often brown and chambered 

 in old twigs. Terminal buds naked ^ lateral leaf -buds oblong, flow- 

 er-buds globose. Leaf-scars alternate, half-round or V-shaped; 

 bundle-traces 5 or 7, sometimes more; stipule-scars none, 



1. A^ triloba (L. ) Dunal. Pawpaw. A tall shrub or small 

 tree 3-12 m. high, the twigs slightly hairy or glabrescent. Rich 

 woods, Florida to Texas, north to New York, Illinois, and 

 Nebraska (Fig. 109). 



