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beneath ; pedicels and calyx smaller. Swamps of the Apalachicola River, 

 Florida. Jan. and Feb. A small tree. 



4. TJ. alata, Michx. (WHAHOO.) Branches corky-winged ; leaves small, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute, sharply serrate, commonly even and rounded at the base, 

 rough above, pubescent beneath, nearly sessile , flowers clustered, on slender 

 pedicels ; fruit oval, downy on the margins. Rich soil, Florida to North Car- 

 olina. A small tree. Leaves 1'- 1' long. 



2. PLANERA, Gmel. PLANER-TREE. 



Flowers polygamous, clustered. Calyx bell-shaped, 4 - 5-cleft. Stamens 4 - 5 : 

 anthers extrorse. Ovary 1-celled. Styles short. Fruit nut-like, coriaceous, 

 wingless. Embryo straight, without albumen. Small trees, with the foliage of 

 the Elm. 



1. P. aquatica, Gmel. Leaves ovate, short-petioled, acute, serrate, rough- 

 ish ; flowers in small roundish clusters, appearing before the leaves ; nut ovate, 

 covered with warty scales. River-swamps, Florida to North Carolina. Feb. 

 and March. A tree 20 - 30 high. Leaves 1 ' - U' long. 



3. CELTIS, Tourn. NETTLE-TREE. 



Flowers perfect or polygamous, apetalous. Calyx of five sepals. Stamens 5 : 

 anthers introrse. Ovary 1-celled. Styles 2, slender, pubescent. Drupe globose. 

 Embryo curved around scanty gelatinous albumen. Cotyledons wrinkled. 

 Trees Leaves petioled, commonly oblique at the base. Flowers axillary, soli- 

 tary, or few in a cluster, greenish. 



' 1. C. OCCidentalis, L. Young leaves and branchlets silky; leaves (2' 

 long) ovate, acuminate, sharply serrate, abruptly contracted at the base, soon 

 smooth, ferrugineous beneath ; fertile flowers mostly solitary, on drooping pe- 

 duncles ; the sterile ones 2 - 4 in a cluster ; drupe dark purple, with a thin sweet 

 pulp. Rich soil, Georgia, and northward. March. A tree 40 - 60 high. 

 Var. INTEGRIFOLIA. (C. intcgrifolia, Nutt.) Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate 

 (2' -3' long), acuminate, entire, rounded, or the lower ones cordate at the base, 

 roughened with miuute elevated points. Sandy soil, Apalachicola, Florida 

 (perhaps introduced), and westward. A small tree. Branches and leaves 

 2-ranked. Var. PUMILA. (C. pumila, Pursh.) Shrubby; leaves (l'-l' 

 long) ovate, acute, serrate, obtuse at the base, pale beneath, very rough above ; 

 drupe glaucous. Shady woods, Florida to North Carolina. March and April. 

 Stem 5 -10 high. 



ORDER 126. PLATANACE^. (PLANE-TREE FAMILY.) 



Large trees, with alternate palmately-lobed petioled stipulate leaves, 

 and monoecious flowers, in axillary long-peduncled globose heads. Calyx 

 and corolla none. Anthers on short club-shaped filaments, numerous, 



