14 ULMACEAE. 



glabrous, but usually rough above: staminate spikes 1-2 cm. long: fruits oval- 

 oblong, 1-2 cm. long, black. BLACK- MULBERRY. 



Roadsides and fields, pen. Fla. Nat. of Eu. (Gont.) Spr. 



2. FICUS [Tourn.] L. Shrubs, trees, or vines, with smoothish bark. 

 Leaves mainly persistent: blades entire, toothed, or lobed. Flowers in hollow 

 receptacles, the staminate with a calyx of 2-6 sepals, or these obsolete, and 

 1-2 or rarely 3 stamens. Pistillate flowers numerous: style rather long: 

 stigma clavate, peltate, or 2-lobed. Fruit depressed-globular or elongate, the 

 achenes included. FIG. 



Leaf-blades lobed, very scabrous-pubescent. 1. F. Carica. 

 Leaf-blades entire, smooth and glabrous. 



Receptacles pedunculate : leaf-blades usually broad-based. 2. F. brevifolla. 



Receptacles sessile : leaf-blades usually narrow-based. 3. F. aurea. 



1. F. Carica L. Shrub, or tree 2-5 m. tall, with pubescent twigs: leaf -blades 

 palmately 5-7-lobed: petioles pubescent: fruits obovoid, 2-8 cm. long. COM- 

 MON-FIG. 



Roadsides, waste places, and gardens, locally throughout Fla. Nat. of the Medi- 

 terranean region. (Cont., W. I.) 



2. T. brevifolia Nutt. Shrub, or tree sometimes 15 m. tall, with glabrous 

 twigs: leaf -blades ovate-oval or rarely obovate, 3-10 cm. long, mainly rounded 

 or cordate at the base: fruits subglobose, 2-2.5 cm. in diameter. WILD-FIG. 



Hammocks and pinelands, trop. pen. Pla. and the F. Keys. (W. /.) 



3. F. aurea Nutt. Shrub, often starting as a vine, or tree becoming 20 m. tall, 

 with glabrous twigs: leaf -blades oblong, elliptic, or oval, 3-10 cm. long, acute 

 or short-acuminate at the base: fruits spheroidal or obovoid, about 2 cm. in 

 diameter. GOLDEN-FIG. 



Hammocks, subtrop. and trop. pen. Fla. and the F. Keys. (IV. I.) 



FAMILY 2. ULMACEAE. ELM FAMILY. 



Shrubs or trees, the sap watery. Leaves alternate: blades inequi- 

 lateral, commonly toothed. Flowers perfect, polygamous, or monoecious, 

 variously disposed. Calyx of 4 or 5, or rarely 3-9 partially united sepals. 

 Androecium of usually as many stamens as there are sepals. Gyrioecium 

 of 2 united carpels. Fruit a samara or a drupe, or nut-like. 



Flowers solitary or merely clustered in the leaf-axils : drupe solitary. 1. CELTIS. 

 Flowers in dichotomous cymes : drupes in cymes. 



Stigmas entire : sepals of the staminate flowers valvate : plants 



unarmed. 2. TKEMA. 



Stigmas 2-cleft : sepals of the staminate flowers imbricate : plants 



armed. 3. MOMISIA. 



1. CELTIS [Tourn.] L. Unarmed shrubs or trees, the bark often warty. 

 Leaves deciduous: blades entire or toothed, very inequilateral. Calyx rotate, 

 the lobes much longer than the tube. Stigmas 2, entire. Drupe subglobose. 



1. O. georgiana Small. Shrub, or tree becoming 8 m. tall, the twigs pubes- 

 cent: leaf -blades deep-green, ovate, 2-5 cm. long, rough and sometimes spar- 

 ingly pubescent above, entire or sharply serrate: drupes globose or nearly so, 

 5-7 mm. in diameter, red-purple or tan-colored. GEORGIA-HACKBERRY. 

 Sandy or rocky river-banks, m. and w. Fla. (Cont.) Spr. 



2. TBEMA Lour. Unarmed shrubs or trees, the bark smoothish: leaves 

 persistent: blades toothed, more or less inequilateral. Calyx rotate, the lobes 

 much longer than the tube. Stigmas 2, entire. Drupe ovoid or globose. 



