DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS 61 
20. MORACEZ. Mu.3perry Famity. 
Trees, shrubs, or herbs, usually with milky juice, alternate 
leaves, large deciduous stipules and small moncecious or dic- 
cious flowers crowded in spikes, heads or racemes, or enclosed 
in a fleshy receptacle. Staminate flowers with a 3—4-lobed 
calyx, stamens 3-4, inserted on the base of the calyx, fila- 
ments usually inflexed in the bud, straightening at maturity. 
Pistillate flowers 3-5-sepalous ; ovary 1-2-celled, 1-2-ovuled ; 
styles 2, receptacle and perianth often fleshy at maturity.* 
I. MORUS, Tourn. 
Trees or shrubs with milky juice, rounded leaves, and 
moncecious flowers in axillary spikes. Staminate flowers 
with a 4-parted perianth, and 4 stamens inflexed in the bud. 
Pistillate flowers with a 4-parted perianth which becomes 
fleshy in the multiple fruit, the pulpy part of which consists 
of the thickened calyx, bracts and so on of many flowers; 
ovary sessile, stigmas 2, linear, spreading ; the fleshy perianth 
enclosing the ovary at maturity.* 
1. M. rubra, L. Rep Mutperry. A small tree. . Leaves cor- 
date-ovate, often 3—5-lobed on vigorous shoots, taper-pointed at the 
apex, serrate, rough above, white, densely woolly beneath. Mature 
fruiting spikes oblong, drooping, dark red or purple, edible. On rich 
soil. Wood very durable, bearing exposure to the weather. 
2. M. alba, L. Wuite Muiperry. A small tree. Leaves 
ovate, heart-shaped, acute at the apex, rounded and often oblique at 
the base, serrate or sometimes lobed. Smooth and shining on both 
sides. Mature fruit light red or white. Introduced and common 
about old dwellings.* 
II. MACLURA, Nutt. 
A small tree with milky juice. Leaves alternate, petioled, 
spines axillary. Flowers dicecious. Staminate flowers in 
short axillary racemes ; calyx 4-parted ; stamens 4, inflexed 
in the bud. Pistillate flowers in axillary, peduncled, capitate 
clusters ; calyx 4-parted, ovary sessile, style long; calyces 
becoming thickened and fleshy in fruit and aggregated into a 
large, dense, globular head.* 
