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2. Upright trees or shrubs. J. communis-. 

 Low and spreading. var. depressa. 

 Prostrate and slender-branched. var. Jackii. 



3. Fruits on straight stalks. 4. 

 Fruits on curved stalks. (Savin). 5. 



4. Fruit several-seeded. J. chinensis. 

 Fruit 1- or 2-seeded. (Red cedar). J. virginiana. 



5. Bushy or with ascending branches. J. sabina. 

 Prostrate or spreading. J. horizontalis. 



Subdivision ANGIOSPERMAE. Enclosed-Seed Plants. 

 Class MONOCOTYLEDONEAE. "Endogens." 



Family GRAMINEAE. Grass Family. 



A very large widespread and highly important family of 

 rarely woody plants, furnishing the principal grains and sugar 

 of the world; indispensable for the maintenance of lawns, etc. 

 Several large species are frequently used in massed planting 

 and some few of these, not easily defined, with woody switch- 

 like stems, constitute the bamboos of temperate borders. 



Family LILIACEAE. Lily Family. 



A large family, chiefly of herbs, comprising many of the 

 "Dutch bulbs," "smilax," "asparagus fern" and other green- 

 house and bedding plants, onions, asparagus, of the vegetable 

 garden, and the dracaenas, yuccas, etc., of warm regions. 



SMILAX. Greenbrler. 



Mostly deciduous woody plants climbing by stipular ten- 

 drils, with "endogenous" wood lacking pith and medullary rays; 

 moderately silender green often striate or angled mostly prick- 

 ly stems; alternate raised ragged petiole-bases rather than 

 leaf -scars; conical buds with a single exposed scale; ovate to 

 oblong entire or somewhat prickly-toothed or lobed leaves with 



