Pistillate Honcr 



Suminatc Hower 



THE HACKBERRY (CWm occidentalh) 



The leaf has three midribs instead of one, and many swollen, reticulated veins. Note the wide-spreading stigmas of 

 the solitary axillary fertile flowers. The staminate flowers cluster at the base of the twig. The sweet, i-seedcd berries ripen to 

 dark purple in late September and hang all winter, to the delight of the birds. Strange, warty excrescences are on the bark of 

 trunks and limbs. The second trunk is of the smaller species. Celt'n Mississippiensis. The third is var. reticulata of the latter speaVs 



