THE MULBERRIES AND THE OSAGE ORANGE 



TREES of small or medium size, with milky sap. Leaves 

 simple, alternate, deciduous, variable. Flowers minute, in 

 axillary spikes or heads, dioecious or monoecious. Fruit com- 

 pound, of many small, fleshy drupes. 



KEY TO GENERA AND SPECIES 



A. Leaves toothed or lobed, with swollen, netted veins; 

 fruit an edible, oblong berry. 



1. Genus MORUS, Linn. 



B. Fruit purple; leaves 3 to 5 inches long. 



(Mo rubra) RED MULBERRY 

 AA. Leaves entire; fruit globular. 



B. Fruit 4 to 5 inches in diameter, inedible. 



2. Genus TOXYLON, Raf. 



(T. pomiferum) OSAGE ORANGE 



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