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3, Liquidambar styraciflua, a young branch with a 

 sterile, conical flower-cluster above, and a pendent, fertile 

 globular catkin below, the natural size ; 3a, pistil, magni- 

 fied ; 35, a ripe fertile catkin or head in fruit ; 3c, a pod 

 dehiscent, detached from the head ; both the natural size. 



4, Discopleura capillacea, part of the stem with a finely 

 dissected leaf ; 4<a^, a small umbel in flower ; both the na- 

 tural size ; 45, one of the flowers magnified ; 4c, a young 

 fruit ; 4(i, the ripe fruit ; 4c, a petal, seen from within ; 

 all enlarged. 



5, Aralia nudicaulis, a corymbed umbel, of the^natural 

 size; ^a, a flower; 55, the pistil; 5c, cross-section of a 

 drupe ; all magnified. 



G, Cornus Canadensis, the whole plant, the root cut 

 away ; with the greenish flowers collected in a head, which 

 is surrounded by a large and showy, 4-leaved, corolline, 

 white involucre, the natural size ; 6a, one of the flowers 

 detached, magnified. 



Y, Nyssa multiflora, sterile flowers ; 7a, fertile flowers, 

 three together ; 7^, the fruit ; all the natural size ; 75, a 

 sterile flower, with the stamens on a convex disk, de- 

 tached from a cluster ; Tc, a fertile flower detached ; both 

 magnified. 



8, Lonicera ciliata, flowers of the natural size; 8a, a 

 stamen ; 85, upper part of the style ; M, vertical section 

 of a berry ; all magnified ; 8c, berries of the natural size. 



PLATE yil. 



1, Mitchella repens, a little specimen, the root cut ofl"; 

 Ic, the twin drupe, crowned with the calyx-teeth of the 

 two flowers ; both figures the natural size ; la, the corolla 

 cut open, and the style ; 15, the two united calyces, en- 



