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axillary polygamous gamopetalous flowers ; and large fleshy 



fruit with enlarged sepals at the base and containing several 

 large seeds. 



Loosely hairy : leaves often cordate. D, virginiana. 



Family SYMPLOCACEAE. 

 An unimportant small family. 



SYMPLOCOS. Sweet Leaf. 



Deciduous or subevergreen shrubs or small trees with pale 

 wood with minute scattered ducts and very fine medullary rays ; 

 slender or rather stout terete twigs ; roundish pith with firmer 

 diaphragms ; alternate low half-round leaf-scars with a single 

 curved bundle-trace ; no stipule-scars ; round superposed buds 

 with several exposed scales ; moderately small short-petioled 

 leaves ; small perfect somewhat gamopetalous yellow flowers 

 crowded in axillary racemes; and dry mostly i-seeded drupes. 

 Leaves deciduous, thin, serrate. S. paniculata. 



Leaves half-evergreen, firm, entire. S. tinctoria. 



Family STYRACACEAE. Storax Family. 

 A small and unimportant family except for the following 

 decorative shrubs or small trees. 



HALESIA. Silver Bell. 



Deciduous small trees with thin shredding bark ; brownish 

 wood with minute diffused ducts and very fine medullary rays; 

 moderate roundish twigs ; roundish chambered rather small pith ; 

 alternate somewhat raised half-round leaf-scars with a single 

 large but rather indefinite curved bundle-trace ; no stipule-scars ; 

 sessile ovoid sometimes superposed buds with several exposed 

 sca 1 es ; rather large petioled leaves ; perfect gamopetalous fun- 

 nel- or bell-shaped rather large white flowers, slender-pedicelled 

 at the nodes ; and hard indehiscent winged fruits. 



1. Fruit 4- winged. 2. 



Fruit 2-winged. H. diptera. 



2. Corolla tapered at the base. H. Carolina. 

 Corolla bell-shaped. H. Carolina Meehani. 



