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III. JUNIPERUS. 



Trees or shrubs ; leaves subulate or scale-like, often both 

 forms on the same tree, evergreen, sessile, opposite or verti- 

 cillate ; flowers dioecious or sometimes monoecious ; staminate 

 ones lateral or terminal, of few stamens, oblong or ovoid ; pis- 

 tillate flowers of a few opposite or verticillate fleshy scales, 

 each scale 1-2-ovuled ; cone globose, berry-like. 



J. ViRGiNiAXA L. Red Cp:dar. A tree with spreading branches 

 and dark brown fibrous bark ; leaves opposite or in o's ; all of those 

 on young trees and some of those on older trees subulate and spread- 

 ing, the others scale-like and closely appressed ; anients terminal, 

 berry-like; cones light blue with a distinct bloom, about i in. in 

 diameter, 1-2-seeded. IMarch-April. A very common tree ; the 

 heart wood reddish, light, strong, fragrant ; the principal wood used 

 in the manufactnre of lead-pencils. 



CLASS II. ANGIOSPERM^. 



Plants producing seeds in a closed ovary formed from one 

 or more modi fled leaves ; cotyledons 1 or 2. 



SUP>CLAS.S I. MOXOrOTYLEDOXS. 



Stems with the fibro-vaseular bundles scattered irregularly 

 through the parenchyma mass, not in rings, no distinction 

 between bark, wood, and i)ith ; leaves usually parallel-veined, 

 alternate and entire ; parts of the flower usually in 3's or G's, 

 never in 5's ; cotyledon single. 



2. TYPHACEiE. CAT-TAIL FAMILY. 



Perennial marsh or acpiatic plants; rootstocdc stout, creep- 

 ing; stem simple, terete, erect ; leaves simple, strap-shaped, 

 sheathing at the base, nerved ami striate ; flowers monoecious, 

 in a single terminal spike, staminate part of the spike u})per- 

 most, each part subtended by spathe-like deciduous bracts ; 



