10 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



1. MKIOI>EVI>RO\, L. TULIP-TREE. 



L. Tulipif era, L. A large and stately tree, growing to 

 a great height in many parts of the western peninsula of 

 Ontario. Leaves large, truncate, or with a shallow notch 

 at the end. Flowers large, showy, solitary ; petals greenish- 

 yellow, marked with orange. Fruit a dry cone, which, at 

 maturity, separates into dry winged indehiscent carpels. 



ORDER HI. ANONA'CE^l. (CUSTARD- APPLE FAMILY.) 

 Trees or shrubs, with alternate and entire leaves, and 

 solitary, v axillary, perfect, hypogynous flowers. Sepals 3. 

 Petals 6, in two sets, deciduous. Stamens numerous. Car- 

 pels few or many, fleshy in fruit. 



1. ASIM'IXA, Adans. NORTH AMERICAN PAPAW. 

 A. tril'oba, Dunal. (COMMON PAPAW.) Found only in 

 the Niagara Peninsula. A small tree, not unlike a young 

 beech in appearance, and forming thickets near Queenston 

 Heights. Flowers purple, appearing before the leaves; the 

 three outer petals much larger than the three inner ones. 

 Fruit 2 to 3 inches long, edible. 



ORDER IV. MENISPERMA'CRE. (MOONSEED FAMILY.) 



Woody twiners, with peltate alternate leaves and small 

 dioecious flowers. Sepals and petals yellowish-white, usually 

 six of each, the petals in front of the sepals. Stamens 

 numerous. Fruit a drupe, in appearance something like 

 a small grape, with moon-shaped seeds. 



1. MKMSPKIOll M, L. MOONSEED. 



M. Canadense, L. (CANADIAN MOONSEED.) A twining 

 plant, found, though not abundantly, in low grounds in 

 rich woods. It may be pretty easily recognized by its 

 usually 7-angled thin leaves, which are peltate near the edge. 

 Fruit bluish-black. 



ORDER V. BERBERIDA'CEJS. (BARBERRY FAMILY.) 

 Herbs (or shrubs), with alternate petiolate leaves. Sepals 

 and petals in fours, sixes, or eights (except in the" genus 



