50 ANONACF,^, (cUSTARD-APPLE FAMILY.) 



thick evergreen leaves, which arc shining and deep preen above and rustj'- 

 colorcd beneath), are the only remaining North American species. The former 

 is hardy as far north as C^anibriclgc. One tree of the latter bears the winter 

 and blossoms near Pliihulcl])hia. The Umhrelhi-tree attains only a small size 

 in New England, whore M. macrophylla is precarious. 



2. LIRIODENDRON, L. Tulip-tree. 



Sepals 3, reflexcd. I'etids C, in two rows, making a bcll-shapcd corolla. An- 

 thers linear, ojjcning outwards. Pistils flat and scale-form, long and narrow, 

 imbricating and cohering together in an elongated cone, dry, separating from 

 each other and from the long and slender axis in fruit, and falling away whole, 

 like a samara or key, indehiscent, 1 -2-seeded in the small cavity at the base. 

 Buds flat, sheathed by the successive pairs of flat and broad stipules joined at 

 their edges, the folded leaves bent down on the petiole so that their apex points 

 to the base of the bud. (Name from Xlpiov, lili/ or tulip, and fieVSpor, tree.) 



1. L. Tulipifei'a, L. — Rich soil, S. New England to Miciiigan, Illi- 

 nois, and southward. Mixy, June. — A most beautiful tree, sometimes 140° 

 high and 8° - 9° in diameter in the Western States, where it is wrongly called 

 Poplar. Leaves very smooth, with 2 lateral lobes near the base, and 2 at the 

 apex, which appears as if cut off abruptly by a broad shallow notch. Petals 2' 

 long, greenish-yellow marked with orange. Cone of fruit 3' long. 



Order 3. AWOIVACE.E. (Custard-Apple Family.) 



Trees or shrubs, tcith naked buds and no stipules, a calyx of 3 sepals, 

 and a corolla o/G petals in tivo rows, valoate in the bud, hypogynous, poly- 

 androus. — Petals thickish. Anthers adnate, opening outwards : fila- 

 ments very short. Pistils several or many, separate or cohering in a 

 mai5s, fleshy or pulpy in fruit. Seeds anatropous, large, with a crusta- 

 ceous seed-coat, and a minute embryo at the base of the ruminated 

 albumen. — Leaves alternate, entire, feather-veined. Flowers axillary, 

 solitary. Bark, &c. acrid-aromatic or fetid. — A tropical family, except 

 one genus in the United States, viz. : 



1. ASIMINA, Adans. North American Papaw. 



Petals 6, increasing after the bud opens ; the outer set larger than the inner. 

 Stamens numerous in a globular mass. Pistils few, ripening 1-4 large and 

 oblong pulpy several-seeded fruits. Seeds horizontal, flat, enclosed in a fleshy 

 aril. — Shrubs or small trees, with unpleasant odor when bruised ; the lurid 

 flowers solitary from the axils of last year's leares. (Name from Asiminitr, of 

 the French colonists.) 



1. A. triloba, Dnnal. (Common Papaw.) Leaves thin, obovate-lan- 

 ceolate, j)oiuted ; petals dull-purple, veiny, round-ovate, the outer ones 3-4 

 times as long as the calyx. — Banks of streams in rich soil, W. New York and 

 Penn. to Illinois and .southward. April, May. — Tree 10° -20° high; the 



