194 MORACEAE 
Famity Il.— MORACEAE. Mutperry FAMILY 
Trees and shrubs with alternate, dentate leaves which are often 
lobed. Stamens and pistils in different flowers, both kinds on 
the same tree or on different trees. Stamen bearing flowers on 
a long, pendulous spike arising from the leaf axils, each flower 
4-parted with 4 stamens. Pistillate flowers also in pendulous 
clusters, the ovary becoming succulent and sweet, the aggregation 
constituting the berry. Juice milky. 
z. MORUS, L. 
The Genus has the characters of the family. 
1. M. rubra, L. Rep Mutperry. Leaves broad, egg-shaped, some- 
what heart-shaped at base, rough above, silky beneath, with a principal 
nerve and about 4 secondary nerves with lesser nerves forming reticula- 
tions. Fruit an elongated dark purple sweet pleasant berry. 
2. M. alba, L. (Fig. 7, pl. 30.) Wurire Muserry. Leaves similar 
to No. 1, but smaller and more heart-shaped at base, often lobed, smooth 
and shining. Fruit drooping, white or pinkish. (Escaped from culti- 
vation. It is the tree the leaves of which are used for feeding silk 
worms). 
2. BROUSSONETIA, L’Her. 
Tree or shrub with milky juice. Leaves alternate, broad, with con- 
spicuous serrations and generally with deep sinuses dividing the leaf into 
3 irregular lobes. Sometimes the sinus is only on one side, in other 
eases it is absent, Fruit globular. 
B. papyrifera, (L.) Vent. Paper Mutperry. Leaves rough above, 
silky beneath, irregularly lobed or without lobes. Fruit red globular 
berries. Escaped from cultivation. 
Famity IIJ.—URTICACEAE. Nerrte FAamMIty 
Herbs with permanent stipules and with the stamens and pis- 
tils in different flowers, on different plants or on the same plant. 
Leaves opposite or alternate, flowers green; the staminate with as 
many stamens as the lobes of the calyx and vis-a-vis to them, in 
loose clusters, inflorescence about a single axis, or more closely 
crowded in a catkin-like spike or into an erect fillet. Pistillate 
flowers with a single ovary, in catkins, with leafy bracts or in 
spikes without bracts. 
eine Vile ie A a eT Humulus 
Leaves with radiant lobes . . ies « ~ OS 
Leaves simple, undivided but odiieaie 
