BOTANY OF LA SAL,L,E COUNTY. 47 



ACT ABA. P. erect 18 to 36 inch. Smooth with 3 

 large compound leaves about the middle; flowers 

 Y. W. in a spike; leaflets toothed, pale below. 



A. spicata var. rubra, berries, a bright L<., as large 

 as peas. 



A. alba. Berries white, leaves more sharply 

 toothed than in spicata. 



Order 2. Magnoliaceae. Magnolias. . 

 LIRIODENDRON. A large handsome forest tree 

 furnishing excellent lumber; not native here. 



Iv. tulipiferee. A tall tree 70 to 100 ft. with gray- 

 ish, deeply furrowed; softish bark when old, 

 smoothish when young; branches coarse; leaves 

 large, squarish, rounded at base, broad and con- 

 clave at apex with a piece cut out of each upper 

 corner, bright G. above, lighter below, smooth: 

 flowers G. and R. without, Y. within, 3 inches 

 broad. There are some fine specimens of this 

 tree at the former residence of Elmer Baldwin 

 dec. of Farm Ridge, % mile N. W. of Farm 

 Ridge church. Also near the residence of J. S. 

 Clayton, Deer Park Tp. which blooms profusely. 



Order 3. Anonaceae. Papaws; 



ASIMINA. Papaw. A tree 20 to 40 ft. high with 

 large, thin, oblong-obovate leaves and soft white 

 wood. 



A. triloba. Flowers dark P; petals 6 thick, stiff, 

 1 in. broad; fruit G. Y. 2 to 4 in long, 1 to \% 

 inches dia., containing several large flat seeds. 

 Fruit eatable, ripe, soft. Illinois bottoms. 

 Found in fruit 1894, 5 and 6 and in flower 95-96. 

 In 96 bushes 3 ft. high were loaded with blos- 

 soms. 



Order 4. Menispermaceae. Moonseeds. 



