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2-celled ; one of the cells smaller and diane peOINE, ; stigmas 2, terminal, 
filiform, v illous on the inner side. Akene compressed, ovate, covered by 
the persistent succulent pera whole aa thus becoming a com- 
pound terete oblong berry. 
1. M. ru’bra, L. Leaves cordate-cvate and acuminate, or 
times 2 — Phi serrate, scabrous above, pubescent beneath ;: “fruit 
dark pur 
Rep ces Red Mulberry. 
Stem usually 15 - 25 feet high, and 9-18 inches in diameter (in some instances —— 
ably taller and larger), with numerous spreading branch esp at summit. wes 4— 
inches tong, oe or less cordate (on young plants often 2~3 lobed, and ort atisode 
above te-serrate, with an entire acumination, ase green and rou ghis' sre the 
upper Surface, Si and, be young, somewhat hoa Aen mt beneath, e pecially 
along t — ioles 1-2 or 3 inches a ak ar membranaceous nie 
“Flowers per small, nu erous, in axilla ary pedunculate ament- Sikke 
spikes—s ti fl gynous. Staminate 
1-near 2 inches long. Pistillate spikes more densely flowered, cylindric, about an 
inch long, nee juicy, pate purple and pleasantly esculent when mature. Peduncle 
of the berry abou inch Ion 
Rich woodlands 
July. 
se Pati wood of this small tree is recbichg tee A reghione and highly 
making posts, &c. The leaves have been successfully used 
for feeding Wormers ‘but the fpredudt's is forty to be n tie fine as that 
afforded by the White Mul berry. ‘The fruit is more adit din that 
of any other species. 
at cit al’ba, L. Leaves obliquely cordate-ovate, and somewhat lobed, 
or sub-acuminate, serrate, smoothish and shining ; fruit mostly 
hindi hite 
Waite Mesos Wiies Mulberry. 
Fr. Marier-blanc. Ger. Weisse Maulbeere. Span. Morera. 
‘Stem 10~20 or 25 feet high, and 8-12 or 15 inches i in posomemen much branched at 
sfahonsdhes, ye throughout the United States. Fl. May. Fr. June— 
mit. Leaves 2 lants, 2— nee ‘that size), 
unequally crenate-serrate, often part ially kc lobex 1, h, shining an and y h: 
petioles ass Som pt a to an inch long, with take gee aaa my hnry *Pistillate spikes. 
shorter an than te ic g Recor ne Fruit pale yellow or cae color when mature 
a barety 0 ast a ‘urpe od! fsa lack. 
en a , fence- mbes introduced. Native of chibe, Persia, &c. Fl. May. Fr 
Obs his species was i introduced nearly a century since, with a 
w to the =e of Silk-worms, and the ge of silk: The | 
silk-culture, however, was soon abandoned,— n that —s stage of 
the coloni i important 
ro ther than ; the tree 
came partia ord naturalized,—and is still frequently to be met with. 
About twenty years ago, a variety of the White Mulberry—of smaller 
statu: 
re, and much larger leaves, (well known by the name of Morus 
eon aot bored as being still — Poe to the feed- 
ing of orms ; and soon afterwards, a ; 2s alice alias 
