38 Papaw (Anonacece) 



3. Family ANONACE^. (Papaw Fam.) 



Genus ASIMINA, ADAMS. (Papaw.) 

 Fig. 3- Papaw Custard-Apple. A. triloba (L.), DunaL 

 Flowers, one and a half inches across ; dull purple, in 

 drooping clusters, appearing with the leaves. Petals, 

 six, thick, in two rows, not united. Sepals, three. 

 Stamens, numerous in a rounded mass. Seed-cases, 

 few, free from the sepals. March, April. 

 Leaves, simple, alternate, edge entire, five to ten inches 

 long, reverse egg-shape. Apex, pointed or some- 

 times rounded. Base, taper-pointed, or slightly 

 rounded ; thin, rusty-downy when young, soon be- 

 coming smooth and polished. 



Bark, silvery-gray, smooth and polished ; young shoots 

 downy. 



Fruit, about three inches long by one and one half inches 

 thick, egg-shape, yellow, pulpy, about ten-seeded ; of 

 disagreeable odor when green ; sweet and edible after 

 frost, when it turns black without and within, and 

 becomes in color and consistency almost custard- 

 like. October. 



Found, from western New York to Southern Iowa, and 

 southward. 



A bush or small tree of unpleasant odor when bruised ; 

 densely clothed with long leaves. 



4. Family BERBERIDACE^. (Barberry Fam.) 

 Genus BERBERIS, L. (Barberry.) 



From the Arabic name of the fruit. 



Fig. 4. Barberry. B. vulg&ris, L. 



Flowers, yellow, drooping, in many-blossomed clusters. 

 Petals, six, not united, reverse egg-shape, concave, 



