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4'_'ii. Cones V in. or less long, bearing 2-winged Beeds. Swamps and cold 

 woods, as far south as North Carolina in the mountains. Very commonly 

 planted as a hedge evergreen and as single specimens, bnl in the wild be- 

 coming very large trees and mnch nsed 

 for telegraph poles. 



6. JUNlPERUS. .Tiniper. 



Small trees or shrubs, with opposite 

 or whorled awl-like [eaves (often of two 

 kinds): fertile catkin of .'!-> fleshy -rales 

 which cohere and form a berry-like fruit 

 containing 1-.". hard seeds. 



J. communis, Linn. Common juniper. 

 Shrui'. erecl or usually spreading and lying close to the ground, with leaves 



in whorls of 3 and all alike (awl-like): berries large and sn th, Banks 



and sterile ground. 



J. Viririniana, Linn. Red cedar. Savin. Small tree or Large shrub, 

 usually narrow pyramidal in growth, with leaves of two kind- (scale like 

 ami awl like, i he former -mall ami lying close to the branch i : berrj glaucous: 



heart-wood red ami highly BCOnted. Common on Kank- and in old field-. 



426. Thuja occidentalis. 



b. PHENOGAMS: A.NGIOSPERMS: MONO COTYLEDONS. 



III. A.R .\ i:.E. ARUM Family 



Perennial herbs, with rhizomes or conn like tubers and acrid 

 juice : (lowers minute, often diclinous and naked, home on a Bpadix 

 anil surrounded or attended by u spathe: fruit usually a berry, the 

 entire Bpadix usually enlarging and bearing the coherenl berries in a 

 large head or spike. .Many tropical plants, and some of temperate 

 regions, many of them odd and grotesque. Genera aboul 1< |U ; Bpecii - 

 aboul L000. Representative plants are skunk cabbage, jack-in-the- 

 pulpit, <-alla, caladium, anthurium. Leaves often netted veined. 



a. Leaves compound l . Ariaama 



aa. Lea simple. 



n. spathe hooded or roofed at the top 2. Symploearpui 



mi. Spathe open or spreading al the top '. Riekardia 



bbb. spat he open and spreading for it- whole length i. Calla 



I. ARISJEMA. Ini.i w TUBNIP. ' \< I is i hi PULPIT. 



stem arising from a corn: like tuber, and bearing I or 2 compound 

 leaves with Bheathlng petioles: H naked and diclinous, the pistillate 



at tin- base of the spadii and the itamlnatc above them, the top of the 

 b pad is not flower-bearing: stamlnate floweri ol illo anthei 



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