78 ZANTHOXYLACEjE. (prickly-ash family.) 
one, ovate-oblong, downy when young; petals wanting; pistils 5, with 
slender styles; pods short-stalked. — Rocky woods and river-banks, 
common northward. April, May. — A low or tall prickly shrub, 
with yellowish-green flowers appearing with the leaves. Bark and 
pods very pungent to the taste. 
2. PTELEA, L. Shrubby Trefoil. 
Flowers polygamous. Sepals 3-5. Petals 3-5. Stamens 
as many. Ovary 2-celled : style short: stigmas 2. Fruit a 2- 
celled samara, winged all round, nearly orbicular. — Shrubs, with 
3-foliolate leaves, and greenish-white small flowers in compound 
terminal cymes. (The Greek name of the Elm, applied to a genus 
which has a somewhat similar fruit.) 
!• !*• tiifoliata, L. Leaflets ovate, pointed, downy when 
young, the middle one wedge-form at the base. — Rocky places, from 
Michigan and Penn, southward. June. — A tall shrub/ Fruit bitter, 
or o the flowers disagreeable ; but not so much so as those of the 
A^thc, glandul6scs, or Tree-of-Heaven, — a cultivated 
e o t is mily, whose flowers, redolent of any thing but u airs 
rom eaven, offer a serious objection to the planting of this orna¬ 
mental tree near dwellings. 
Order 30. ANACARDIACEjE. (Cashew Family.) 
Trees or shrubs, with a resinous or milky acrid juice, 
ess alternate leaves, and small, often polygamous, regu- 
or penlandrous flowers, with a 1 -celled and 1 -ovuled ovary, 
i i Q ^ sty/es or stigmas. — Petals imbricated in the 
e t, ii ° rne ° n a curve d stalk that rises from the base 
of the cell, without albumen. Stipules none. 
Serial K D V I*. SlTMACH. 
tween^ i , P<!ta S 5 ‘ Stamen3 5 > inserted into the edge or be- 
Fruitam ll ° j 6S T a ® attene< i disk in the bottom of the calyx, 
in R r v “ indehiscent, a sort of dry drupe. - Leaves (simple 
Flowers srreen' h 6 ^. moke ' Plant of gardens) usually compound. 
name of th h ' W . hlte 01 y ellow ish. (The old Greek and Latin 
name ot the genus.) 
§ ' ac, DC Flowers mostly polygamous , panicled. 
