10 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



1. URIODEN'»UO\, L. TnLn>-TKEE. 

 L. Tulipifera, 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. Plowers large, showy, solitary ; petals greenish- . 

 yellow, nicirked with orange. iPruit a dry cone, which, at 

 maturity, separates into dry winged indehisoent carpels. 



Oedeb m. ANONA'CE^. (Custard-Apple Family.) 

 Trees or shrubs, with alternate and entire leaves', and 

 solitary, axillary, perfect, hypogynoiis flowers. Sepals 3. 

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

 pels few or many, fleshy in fruit. 



1. ASIAI'INA, Adaiis. NoKTii Ameuican Papaw. 

 A. tril'Oba, Danal. (Common Pai'Avv.) Pound only in 

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

 beech in appearance, and forming thickets near Queenston 

 Heights. Flowers ptirple, appearing before the leaves; the 

 three outer petals mttch larger than the, three inner ones. 

 Fruit 2 to 3 inches long, edible. 



OliDBK IV. ME!NIS~PERMA'CE.S;. (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^rape, with moon-shaped seeds. 



1. JIENIsriilMIIIIIH, 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 XDeltate near the edge. 

 Fruit bluish-black. 



Order V. BERBERIDA'CE^. (Barberry Family.) 

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

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



