Lea 



SCBOPHULABIACEAE 137 



ves gray-green: fruit about 10 mm. long. L. halimifolium. 

 Leaves bright green: fruit often 20 mm. long. L. chinense. 



SOLANUM. 



Usually herbs, (potato, egg plant, etc.) ; the following 

 (bittersweet) a soft-wooded perennial twining climber with 

 alternate leaves; wheel-shaped perfect violet flowers in stalked 

 clusters from above the axils; ami ovoid red berries. 

 Leaves cordate or hastately lobed or divided. ,S. Dulcamara. 



Family SCROPHULARIACEAE. Figwort Family. 

 A large family, chiefly herbaceous, including foxglove, 

 snapdragon, etc., of the gardens, and such common weeds as 

 mullein and speedwell. The following is a street tree as far 

 north as Brooklyn. 



PAULO WN i A. 



Deciduous medium-sized trees with rather soft brownish 

 wood with small ducts, more or less crowded in spring and 

 tangentially seriate in summer, and fine medullary rays; stout 

 roundish twigs flattened at the nodes; roundish large pith, 

 chambered, or excavated between the nodes; opposite some- 

 what raised large subelliptical leaf-scars with numerous bun- 

 dle-traces in a single series; no stipule-scars; rounded mostly 

 superposed buds with several exposed scales ; large ovate 

 petioled leaves; violet gamopetalous 2-lipped large flowers in 

 terminal panicles; and ovoid capsules with winged seeds. 

 Leaves cordate, pubescent. (Imperial tree). P. tomentosa. 



Family BIGNONIACEAE. Bignonia Family. 

 A rather small warm-region family including many woody 

 climbers, frequent in conservatories, and some trees; occasion- 

 ally yielding valuable timber, such as primavera. 



BIGNONIA. Cross Vine. 



More or less evergreen woody plants, climbing by leaf 

 tendrils; with brownish soft wood with large crowded ducts 

 in spring, minute scattered ducts in autumn, and unequal med- 

 ullary rays of which 4, consisting of brown cells, may be con- 



