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a membrauous ^ving — Trees with leaves unequal at base, caducous 

 stipules, aud flowers preceding leavey, arranged in lateral clusters. 



IT. campc§tri§, L. ^ Q to 15. Leaves ovate to ol)long-lanceo- 

 latc, .4 to .8 long, short-acaminate, serrate, pubescent or glabrous. 

 Flower clusters subsessile, pedicels short ; perigonium equally 5-cleft, 

 lobes ciliatej stamens 4-5; samara obovate, .015 long, margin entire', 

 notched at tip ; seed near sinus — Flowering in spring — Aleppo, Ain- 

 t^b, and northward. 



*2. CELTIS, L. Nettle-tree. HACia3ERiiY. Mais. 

 Flowers perfect, or by abortion polygamous. Sepals 5-0, ovate, 

 imbricated in bud. Stamens 5-6, opposite the sepals, incurved in bud, 

 straightening themselves elastically in flower ; anthers introrse. Stigmas 

 2, long, papillose. Drupe globular-ovate, slightly fleshy ; stone bony 

 — Trees, with watery juice, alternate leaves, and quickly falling stipules. 

 Staminate floicers solitary in 2iX\\^\ pistillate more or less clustered. 



C. aii§trali$, L. 5 Southern Hackberry. Mais. 10 or more. 

 Leaves with rounded or wedge-shaped, oblique base, ovate-lanceolate, 

 .1 to .15 long, long-acuminate, acutely serrate, soft-pubescent beneath. 

 Fruiting peduncles much longer than petioles; drupe black, .01 long; 

 seed netted, roughened — Spring — Common in cultivation as a shade 

 tree. Spontaneous in lower mountain regions along coast, and in 

 Jordan Valley. 



3. MORUS^ L. Mulberry. Sycamine. Tat. 



Flowers moncecious rarely dioecious, Fia. 332. 



arranged in spikes or heads. Staminate flowers : 

 sepals 4 ; stamens 4, the filaments inflexed in 

 bud. Pistillate flowers : sepals 4-5. ovate, con- 

 cave, at length becoming succulent, and enclos- 

 ing the 2-celled ovary ; stigmas 2 ; fruit a syn- 

 carpium, composed of the capitate-spiked, by 

 abortion 1-seeded, fleshy sepals, which have be- 

 come coalesced by pressure ; testa of seed hard, 

 brittle; embryo hooked — Trees with milky 

 juice, and alternate leaves. 



1. M. nigra, L. 5 Sycamine. IVd- iiipe fruit of a mui. 

 Shdmi. Stole. Leaves cordate-ovate, lobed SeS^sTiSs'tigmS- 

 or undivided, .1 to .15 long. Fruiting spikes 



subsessile; fruit oblong, .02 to .03 long, acid; margin of sepals and 

 stigmas villous — Early summer — Cultivated everywhere for its deli- 

 cious berries. 



2. M. alba, L. 5 Mulberry. TiU heledi. 5 to 8. Leaves cor- 

 date-ovate, usually oblique at base, entire, serrate, or lobed, .1 to .2 

 long. Peduncles as long as fruiting spikes; fruit oblong, .01 to .015 

 long, sioeetish, insipid; margin of sepals glahrous ; stigmas glalrous or 

 short-2)apiUose — 'ElsLYly summer — Cultivated everywhere for its leaves, 

 which are used as food for silk-worms. 



4. nCUS, L. Fig. Ti7i. 

 Flowers monoecious or dioecious, inserted on the inner wall of a 

 fleshy, hollow, globular-pyriform receptacle, which is bracted at base, 



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