14 KEY, BASED UPON FBUIT. 



A KEY. BASED OPON THE FRDIT, 



Designed as an Aid in Identifying the Species represented in Parts I, n, in, IV 

 and V when in Season for procuring the Fruit. 



N. B. The remarks concerning the use of the Key based upon the Leaves are 

 equally true with reference to this. 



tt. Free Fruit formed by the ripening of a single pistil either simple or compound. 

 b. Indehiscent pericarp. 



c. Samara dry, usually 1-celled, 1-seeded and with 1-2 membranous wings. 

 d. In terminal panicles; wing somewhat ( oblong-lanceolate, with a lenticular 

 seed at about its center, and beyond which the wing is twisted (Allan- 



thus) 4. A. GLANDULOSUS. 



cP. In terminal cymes, a 2-seeded suborbicular samera, winged all around. 



77. PTELEA TRIFOLIATA. 



d? In umbellate corymbs, each pedicel supporting a pair of samarse with 

 oblanceolate wings, obtuse at the apex and with main" rib on outer 

 margin (Acer). 



e. Fruit maturing in the fall, wings slightly divergent. .7. A. SACCHARINUM. 

 e 2 . Fruit maturing in early summer. 



/. Large 1J in. or more, downy when young 26. A. DASYCARPUM. 



/ 2 . Smaller, smooth, pendulous and 



Red, in umbels. , 53. A. RUBRUM. 



Greenish in racemes, wings incurved 54. A. NEGTJNDO. 



d 4 . In terminal racemes, 2 samerse on a single pedicel with main rib on outer 



margin 79. ACER PENNSYLVANICUM. 



d 6 . In axillary racemes or panicles, winged at the apex with a more or less 



lanceolate obtuse wing (Fraxinus). 

 e. Terete at base (seed-bearing portion); branchlets and petioles 



Smooth 10. F. AMERICANA. 



Velvety pubescent 31. F. PUBESCENS. 



e 2 . Flat wing extending along the seed-bearing portion. 



62. F. SAMBUCIFOLIA- 



d 6 . In lateral fascicles or clusters, winged all round (Ulmus). 



Sessile or nearly so, cell pubescent and margin not ciliate. .11. U. FULVA. 



In fascicles, cell smooth, margin densely ciliate 33. U. AMERICANA. 



In racemes, cell pubescent, margin ciliate 34. U. RACEMOBA. 



C 2 . Drupe or drupe-like and with a single seed. 

 d. Fibre-fleshy and dryish pericarp 



