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axillary polygamous gamopetalous flowers; and large fleshy 
fruit with enlarged sepals at the base and containing several 
large seeds. 
Loosely hairy: leaves often cordate. D. virginiana. 
Family SYMPLOCACEAE. 
An unimportant small family. 
Symptocos. Sweet Leaf. 
Deciduous or subevergreen shrubs or small trees with pale 
wood with minute scattered ducts and very fine medullary rays; 
slender or rather stout terete twigs; roundish pith with firmer 
diaphragms; alternate low half-round leaf-scars with a single 
curved bundle-trace; no stipule-scars; round superposed buds 
with several exposed scales; moderately small short-petioled 
leaves; small perfect somewhat gamopetalous yellow flowers 
crowded in axillary racemes; and dry mostly 1-seeded drupes. 
Leaves deciduous, thin, serrate. S. paniculata. 
Leaves half-evergreen, firm, entire. S. tinctoria. 
Family STYRACACEAE. Storax Family. 
A small and unimportant family except for the following 
decorative shrubs or small trees. 
HAtesiA. Silver Bell. 
Deciduous small trees with thin shredding bark; brownish 
wood with minute diffused ducts and very fine medullary rays; 
moderate roundish twigs; roundish chambered rather small pith; 
alternate somewhat raised half-round leaf-scars with a single 
large but rather indefinite curved bundle-trace; no stipule-scars; 
sessile ovoid sometimes superposed buds with several exposed 
scales; rather large petioled leaves; perfect gamopetalous fun- 
nel- or bell-shaped rather large white flowers, slender-pedicelled 
at the nodes; and hard indehiscent winged fruits. 
I. Fruit 4-winged. 2. 
Fruit 2-winged. H. diptera. 
2. Corolla tapered at the base. H. carolina. 
Corolla bell-shaped. H. carolina Meehani. 
