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0.5 mm. long : petals white or pinkish : capsules about 1 mm. long. — Sum. 

 & fall. 



The Tamarisk, a native of southern Europe, grows on roadsides and in thicliets 

 in northern and peninsular Florida. The reddish heart-wood is coarse-grained, 

 rather heavy, hard, and strong. {Cont.) 



Family 4. THEACEAE. Camellia Family. 



Shrubs, trees, or vines. Leaves alternate. Flowers perfect and showy. 

 Calyx of 5, or rarely 4-7, imbricate sepals. Corolla of 5, or rarely of 4r-7, 

 petals. Androecinm of numerous, or rarely few, stamens. Gynoecium of 

 3-5 partially or wholly united carpels. Fruit mostly capsular, sometimes 

 indehiscent. 



1. GORDONIA Ellis. Trees. Leaves persistent. Flowers long-pedicelled. 

 Sepals, and petals, 5, concave. Stamens borne on a 5-lobed disk. Style terete. 

 Capsule loculicidal. 



1. G. Lasianthus (L.) Ellis. Large tree: leaf -blades narrowly elliptic or 

 oblanceolate, 5-15 cm. long, appressed-serrate : sepals 8-10 mm. in diameter: 

 corolla 5-7 cm. broad: capsules ovoid, 15-18 mm. long. — Sum. 



The Loblollt-bay grows in swamps and hammocks in northern Florida and 

 the northern half of the peninsula. The red heart-wood is close-grained, light, and 

 soft. (Cont.) 



Order PASSIFLORALES. 



Herbs, trees, or shrubby plants, or succulent trees with milky sap. 

 Leaves alternate: blades entire or lobed. Flowers perfect or dioecious. 

 Calyx of 4 or 5 more or less united sepals. Corolla of 4 or 5 distinct or 

 united petals, sometimes accompanied by a fringed crown, or rarely want- 

 ing. Androecium of 5 stamens, or of 10 stamens in 2 equal rows. 

 Gynoecium of 3-5 united carpels. Ovary superior. Fruit a berry or a 

 capsule. 



Family 1. PAPAYACEAE. Papaw Family. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves with ample lobed blades. Corolla salver- 

 shaped. Stamens 10 : filaments adnate to the corolla-tube. Anthers erect. 

 Fruit baccate, borne near the top of the stem. 



1. CARICA L. Plants with milky juice, the stems rather tender, simple 

 or branched. Leaf-blades palmately or pinnately lobed. Staminate flowers in 

 long-peduncled cymes: pistillate flowers in short-peduneled cymes. Berries 

 nearly sessile, many-seeded. 



1. C. Papaya L. Tree 3-8 m. tall, leafy at the top: leaf -blades suborbieular 

 in outline, mostly 2-8 dm. in diameter, long-petioled : staminate flowers with 

 obtuse calyx-lobes and a corolla over 2.5 cm. long: pistillate flowers with 

 deltoid or ovate calyx-lobes and corolla-lobes 25-40 mm. long: berries oblong 

 to subglobose, 7-32 cm. long. — All year. 



The Papaw, a native of tropical America, grows in woods, hammocks and 

 waste places in peninsular Florida and on the Florida Keys. The whitish wood is 

 coarse-grained, light, soft, and spongy. ( 11'. 7.) 



Order PROTEALES. 



Perennial herbs, or shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate or rarely oppo- 

 site : blades simple or compound. Flowers perfect, or occasionally polyg- 



