132 BUCKEYE FAMILY 



Hex Cassine. Dahoon holly. Shrub or tree. Leaves ever- 

 green, 2-4 in. long, usually broadened upward, variable, en- 

 tire or slightly toothed. Fruit red. Swamps. Fla. to Va. 

 and La. 



Hex vomitoria. Yaupon. Cassena. Shrub or small tree. 

 Leaves evergreen, oval or oblong, shallowly toothed, about 1 

 in. long. Fruit red. Swamps. Fla. to Va., Texas, and Ark. 



A holly-like shrub of the staff-tree family, Crossopetalv^m 

 floridanum, with short, prostrate branches, small, opposite, 

 spiny, oval leaves, and tiny red fruit, is found in dry 

 soil in the southern part of the peninsula. 



DODONAEA FAMILY (Dodonaeaceae) 



Shrub. Leaves alternate, entire, evergreen. Flowers small, 

 greenish, corolla lacking. Capsules 3-winged, 3-seeded. 



Dodonaea viscosa, a shrub locally abundant in sand 

 along the coast of southern Florida, is peculiar in its 

 sticky leaves and its winged capsules. The resinous-dotted 

 leaves, one to four inches long, are very numerous ; they are 

 oblong or are broadened upward from a wedge-shaped 

 base. The inconspicuous flowers are in short racemes, and 

 have a 3-5-parted calyx and eight stamens. The three- 

 winged, or sometimes four-winged capsules are slightly 

 more than half an inch broad, and are nearly as long as 

 broad. 



BUCKEYE FAMILY (Aesculaceae) 

 Tree or shrub. Flowers red. Leaves opposite, of 5-7 leaflets. 



Red Buckeye (Genus Aesculus) 



The attractive red buckeye is far more slender than 

 its relative the cultivated horsechestnut, and is less con- 



