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ay — Fruit dry, of five carpels. 



Flowers white or pinkish ; stamens numerous and 



exserted. Native Spirmas 1 18 



/■ — Flowers white, fragrant, crowded on long, slender 

 spikes, appear in midsummer. Plant loves the water. 

 Clethra 402 



_. .,,,-, , , ( Huckleberry Family . 315 



g. — Flowers bell-hke or urn-shaped; \ , , , J, 



, . . , . ■ Many genera of the 



white, pale pink or greenish ... \ ' 7, ^ 



1 ' & \ Heath Family 343 



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



low ( RJiodora . 360 



i, — Flowers yellow, in small clusters, appear- -, .... , , 



it u , ,, • \ Spue-bush. .. 415 



mg before the leaves ; corolla wanting; • r ., , 



, ° I Leatlierivooa . 419 

 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. Bayberry 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 : 



3. 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 



