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rounded homogeneous pith; alternate slightly raised small 

 roundish leaf-scars with 3 bundle-traces; no stipule-scars; 

 small hairy sometimes superposed "buds; rather large long- 

 stalked palmately nerved ovate or sometimes elongated often 

 cordate or hastate leaves, small imperfect polypetalous flowers 

 in axillary racemes or panicles; and berry-like drupe with 

 ring-like transversely ridged stone. 



Leaves glabrescent above: fruit red. Tender. C. carolinus. 

 Leaves pubescent: fruit blue-black. Hardy. C. trilobus. 



MENISPERMUM. Moonseed. 



Half-wpody twining plants with somewhat fluted green 

 stems; rather large homogeneous pale pith; alternate round 

 leaf-scars with a raised border and numerous bundle-traces' in 

 a single series; no stipule-scars; rounded often superposed 

 buds; rather large long-stalked palmately veined angled or 

 very shallowly lobed leaves; small dioecious polypetalous flow- 

 ers in long-stalked axillary clusters; and berry-like drupe with 

 ring-like dorsally keeled stone. 

 Leaves obtusely angled or shallow-lobed. M. canadense. 



Family MAGNOLIACEAE. Magnolia Family. 

 A rather small family, usually shrubby but including some 

 trees of large size such as the tulip tree which furnishes "pop- 

 lar" lumber, etc.: much used in landscape work. 



LIRIODENDRON. Tulip Tree. "Poplar." 



Large rather percurrent deciduous trees with intricately 

 fissured bark; pale soft wood with very minute diffused ducts 

 and extremely fine medullary rays; moderate terete twigs; 

 roundish light brown pith with firmer diaphragms; alternate 

 somewhat raised nearly round leaf-scars with about a dozen 

 scattered bundle-traces; very narrow stipule-scars encircling 

 the twigs; solitary sometimes stalked flattened or 2-edged buds 

 with 2 valvate scales; rather large simple truncate or deeply 

 notched stalked leaves with 2 or more lateral lobes; large 

 green and yellow perfect polypetalous terminal flowers; and a 



