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acquire a strong- liking for the young shoots and eat them 

 in large quantities without apparent ill effects. Mo. and Kan. 

 to Tex. Escaped in Ohio and other eastern states. 



53. Papyrius Lam. Paper-mulherry. 



Trees with alternate simple 2-ranked leaves having two 

 prominent side-ribs from the base, with milky sap, and with 

 downy twigs. 



Flowers diecious, the staminate in ament-like spikes, the 

 carpellate capitate; fruit a globular head of red drupes. 



1. Papyrius papyrifera (L.) Ktz. Paper-mulberry. 

 A small. l()w-l)rancliing. large-headed tree with dark scarlet 

 fruit which is sweet but insipid. Native of eastern Asia. 

 In Japan and China the bark is made into paper. Escaped 

 from cultivation. N. Y. to Ga., and Mo. 



Order, Fagales, 



Fagaceae. Beech Family. 



54. Fagus (Tourn.) L. Beech. 



Large trees with alternate 2-ranked simple equilateral 

 pinnately straight-veined dentate leaves, with a vein for each 

 tooth, and with prominent green medullary rays. 



Winter buds usually very long-pointed ; flowers monecious ; 

 nut 3-angled, enclosed in a 4-valved bur with soft, short 

 prickles. 



L Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. American Beech. .V 

 large tree, the lower branches spreading. Autumn leaves pure 

 yellow. Nut sweet and edible. Wood hard, heavy, light- 

 colored, rather close-grained, not durable in the ground ; used 

 for making chairs, handles, plane-stocks, shoe-lasts, in turnery, 

 and for "acid wood." Tn rich but not necessarily deep soil. 

 N. S. to Ont. and Alinn.. Mo., Fla.. and Te.x. 



55. Castanea (Tourn.) Hill. Chestnut. 



Trees or shrubs with simple alternate equilateral pinnately 

 straight-veined serrate leaves, with a vein for each tooth. 

 with 5-angled pith and inconspicuous medullary rays. 



Flowers monecious; fruit a rounded coriaceous nut; 

 several in a globose, mostly 1-valved involucre covered with 

 long prickles. 



