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or 4, 2 - 3-cleft, capsule 2 - 4-seeded. Herbs or shrubs. Leaves mostly pal- 

 mately lobed. 



J. gossypiifolia, L. Shrubby (2 high); leaves roundish, 3-5-lobed, 

 serrate, the petiole bristly, glandular; bracts and calyx bristly -ciliate ; petals 

 5, dark red. Key West (Curtiss), introduced. 



ORDER ULMACE^E. 

 ULMUS, L. 



U. racemosa, Thomas. Branches often corky ; leaves oblong-ovate, 

 smooth above, downy beneath ; racemes slender ; fruit large. River-banks, 

 Tennessee, and northward. 



TKEMA, Lour. 



Chiefly like Celtis, but with fleshy albumen, and thick narrow incurved 

 cotyledons. Trees or shrubs. 



T. micrantha, Benth. & Hook. Shrub very leafy (10 -15 high), the 

 branchlets, &c. canescent; leaves (1'long) rigid, oval, serrate; flowers mi- 

 nute, in dense axillary cymose clusters ; drupe small, yellow, globose. 

 (Celtis pallida, Torr. ) Shell-mounds in Lastero Bay, -South Florida ( Garber). 



ORDER CUPULIFER^. 

 QTJERCUS, L. 



Q. palustris, Du Roi. (PiN OAK.) Leaves long-petioled, oval, trun- 

 cate or abruptly acute at base, with broad and rounded sinuses, and 5-7 

 sparingly-toothed lobes, smooth on both sides ; cup shallow, with appressed 

 scales, enclosing the base of the nearly globular nut. Mountains of Georgia, 

 and northward. A middle-sized tree. Nut $' long. 



ORDER SALICACEJE. 

 SALIX, Tourn. 



S. fragilis, L. Leaves broadly lanceolate, acuminate, finely serrate, 

 white silky when young, glaucous beneath ; aments long, cylindrical ; bracts 

 hairy ; stamens mostly 2 ; capsule short-pedicelled. Tennessee, and north- 

 ward. A small tree. 



POPULUS, Tourn. 



P. monilifera, Ait. Branchlets obtusely angular ; leaves deltoid-ovate, 

 acuminate, serrate (3' -IT)' long); fertile aments long and slender; stigma 

 large, toothed ; capsule oblong-ovate. (P. Canadensis, Michx. P. kevigata, 

 Willd.) River-banks, Florida, and northward. A large tree. 

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