no Calycanthus (Calycanthacece) 



Seed-case, five-celled, but becoming ten-celled by false 

 partitions, with ten young seeds, only a part of 

 which sometimes ripen. 



Leaves, variable, long egg-shape to reverse egg-shape. 

 Base, slightly heart-shaped or rounded. Apex, some- 

 times bristle-pointed, usually two to three inches 

 long, somewhat downy when young, afterward very 

 smooth above and below. Bark, of branches and 

 twigs usually purplish-brown and very smooth. 



Fruit, berry-like, round, purplish, sweet, and edible. A 

 pome. June, August. 



Found, in woods and along streams, common in the 



North, rare in the South. 



A shrub (or sometimes tree), five to thirty feet high. 

 A. spicata (Lam.) Dec. ( Var. oblongifblia, Torr. and 



G.), A. oligocdrpa (Michx.) Roem., and A. alnifblia, 



Nutt., are smaller forms found northward. 



The name " shad-bush " is given because the shrub 

 blossoms about the time the shad " run." 



15. Family CALYCANTHACECE. (Calycanthus Fam.) 

 Genus CALYCANTHUS, L. 



Fig. 47. Sweet-scented Shrub. Carolina All-spice. 



C. nanus, LoiseL (C. lavagcitus, Willd.) 



Flowers, reddish-brown, solitary in the axils of the leaves, 

 fragrant when crushed. Petals and sepals, similar in 

 color, lance-shape, rather thick and fleshy, numerous 

 in several rows, and all united below into a fleshy 

 cup or tube. Stamens, usually about twelve. Seed- 

 cases, few or many, enclosed in the calyx-tube. May, 

 August. 



