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^3. Fruit dry, of five carpels. 



Flowers white or pinkish; stamens numerous and 

 exserted. Native Spirceas ..................... 118 



f. Flowers white, fragrant, crowded on long, slender 

 spikes, appear in midsummer. Plant loves the water. 

 Clethra .......................................... 402 



( Huckleberry Family . 315 

 ^-.-Flowers bell-like or urn-shaped ; \ M a Qf ^ 



white, pale pink or greenish . . . 



h. Flowers of Azalea type, white, pink or yel- ( Azaleas. . 346 



low ........................... . ....... ( Rhodora . 360 



/.Flowers yellow, in small clusters, appear- j S p ice . bush 4I5 



ing before the leaves ; corolla wanting; Leatherwood . ^ 



calyx colored. . ...... . . ....... ...... ; 



j. Flowers yellow ; parts in fours ; petals long, narrow, 



crumpled. Blooms in autumn. Witch Hazel ....... 238 



k. Fruit conspicuous, persistent. 



k\ .Scarlet. Hollies ... ..... ........... ............. 48 



k2. Gray, covered with wax. Bay berry ................ 440 



/. Plants growing in the sands of the sea-shore. Leaves 



small, very downy ; flowers yellow. Hudsonias ...... 19 



LEAVES DECIDUOUS, ALTERNATE, SIMPLE; FLOWERS IN CATKINS : 



1. Leaves sprinkled with resinous dots; fragrant. Bayberry 



Family ............................................ 437 



2. Fruit a nut enclosed in a prickly burr. Chinquapin ....... 446 



3. Fruit a nut enclosed in a dry involucre. Hazels ........... 449 



4. Fruit a strobile. Birches and Alders ................ 456-460 



5. Fruit many capsules borne in a raceme. Willows ......... 469 



Shrubs with alternate leaves not mentioned above: Tamarisk, 

 Forsythia, Exochorda, Kerria, cultivated Spiraeas, Mezeron, Red-root. 



LEAVES EVERGREEN : 



1. Leaves resembling those of the hemlock ; fruit a seed, al- 



most enclosed in a red fleshy cup. Yews .............. 493 



2. Leaves very narrow, margins revolute, edges meeting at the 



back. 

 a. Plant sub-arctic ; fruit edible. Black Crowberry ....... 488 



b. Plant rare, grows on rocky or sandy soil, near the At- 



lantic coast; fruit dry. Conrad's Broom Crowberry.. 492 

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