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Handbook oi' 'I"i;i:i:s oi' tiiio .Xoimii i;i;.\ Siaiks and C'axaua. \ V.) 



inner bark ami lionoy and porfume from their flowors. About twouty spocips arc known tive 

 or six of whifli are fouml among thp trees of fasierii North America. 



Leaver deciduous, loug-petiolate, mainly cordate and oblique at base, acute or ac!ii;i:u;>te. 

 serrate. Fluircrs light yellow, very fragrant and neclariferous in pedunculate axillary rynie?!. 

 ea<!i peduncle furnisiied with a large pale floral niembi-anous bi'act lo wliich it is adnaic fo- 

 about half its length; sepals ."> ; petals i"). imbricated in the bud. yellowish white stamens in .") 

 clusters each cluster (in the American species) united with a petal-like scale opposite each 

 petal, the filament filiform and forked at the apex, each fork bearing an extrorse half-anther; 

 ovary Tt-celled. each cell containing 2 anatropous ovules; style columnar and with ."> spreading 

 stigmatio lobes. Fruit nut-like, dry, woody, l-celled and containing 1-2 amphitropous scfds ; 

 cotyledons palmatoly ij-lobed. 



The name is the classical name of the European Liiidt ii. 



KEY TO THE SrEC'IES. 



a Leaves green and glabrous beneat h T. Americana. 



a' Leaves whitish and 



Tomentose beneath T. Itcterophylla. 



Stellate pubescent with tufts in the axils of the veins beneath T. Michauxii. 



For species sec pp. 350-351 and the foUoiring: 



WrriTE RASSwoon. 7'. hcterophylla Vent. A large tree ranging from southern N. Y. to 

 Fla.. particularly of the Alleghany Mts. Leaves ovate-oblong to oval. .^>-10 in. long, cordate 

 or truncate and oblique at base, abruptly acuminate, serrate, at maturity thin, dark green 

 above, whitish and tomentose beneath; branchlets glabrous. Flowers with pedunculate bract 

 4-^) iu. long, decurrent nearly to base. Fruit oblong to subglobose, about y^ in. long, rusty- 

 tomentose. 



MiciTAUX Basswood, T. MieJiauxii Nutt. Similar to the above and often confounded with 

 it and with T. puhescens Ait. of the southern coast region. Its distribution, apparently ex- 

 tending from the vicinity of Montreal. Cajiada, to the Gulf states, is not well understood, 

 Leaves broad-ovate, mostly cordate and very oblique at ba.se, short acuminate or acute at apex, 

 serrate, at maturity rather firm, glabrous dark green above, whitish stellaTe pubescent with 

 tufts of hairs in the axils of the veins beneath. Fion-ers floral bract pedunculate, spatulate- 

 obovate, decurrent to within ^2-% i"- of the base of the peduncle. Fruit subglobose, about 

 Va in. in diameter, hoary-tomentose. 



TEA FAMILY. THEACE^ DC. 



Trees and shrubs of about one hundred and sixty species, grouped in sixteen or seventeen 



genera, and confined chiefly to the tropics of the New World and soutliern and eastern Asia. 



The most important genus is CameUio, yielding the tea of commerce and shrubs wi'.h beautiful 



flowers. 



L(uvrs alternate without stipules. Flowers showy, regular, perfect; sepals and petals ."5, 

 imbricated in the bud. hypogenous ; stamens numerous wit!-. 2 longitudinally dehiscent cells; 

 ovary mostly ?.-o-celled and stigma 3-5-lobed. Fruit a woody 3-5-cell(M.l caspule ; seed with 

 large cotyledons and no albumen. 



THE LOBLOLLY BAY, ETC. Genus GORDOXIA(L) Ei.l. 



Trees and shrubs of about a dozen species mainly of southeastern Asia. One species is 



represented in the flora of southeastern T'nited States. Auoth'n- tree, the Frnnklinia, by some 



con.3idere(l a species of this gpuus. is more properly considered the tyi'e of another genus of 



that nr.me. 



Leaves alternate, evergreen, coriaceous. Flowers long-stalkod and solitary inthe axils of 

 the leaves; sepals unequal, silky, concave, rounded and i)orsistont ; petals white, obovate, 

 slightly united at base, coiicave ; stamens numerous with short filaments inserted on ~> fleshy 

 disks each adnate to the base of a pef^l ; anthers intror.so. yellow; ovary sessile with elon- 

 gated s;yle. .")-lobeil and stigmatic at apex; ovules 4 in each cell, anatropous. Fruit a woody 

 pointed ovoid loculicidally dehiscent capsule; valv.^s a, e.iiire; s mmIs usually -1 in each cell: 



pendulous, compressed and an oblong wing at the ti 

 Named in honor of .Tames Gordon, a Lo 



ondon nurseryman of the ISth century. 

 For sj)ecies see pp. 352-35.1. 



GINSENG FAMILY. AR.MJACK.E \'i-nt. 



Tr«s, shrubs and herbs of .iliout four hundred fifty species, grouped in thirty-two genera, 

 and widely distributed thnuighi.ut tmi-ical and to a le.sser extent temperate regions. 

 A single arborescent species is nativ(> to the flora of eastern United States. 

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