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DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OF STAPHYLEA 



* Leaves with 3 blades. (A.) 



A. All the blades short-stalked with serrate awned edges lj-2^ 



inches long ; fruit 2-lobed and flattened, about an inch long ; 



small shrub to 6 feet, from Japan. Japan Bladder Nut—. 



Staphylea Bumalda. 

 A. End blade long-stalked, all finely serrated ; upright shrub with 



stout branches 6-15 feet high ; pod 1^2 inches long. American 



Bladder Nut (111) — Staphylea trifblia. 



A. Similar to the last but the blades smoother and nearly orbicular ; 

 fruit larger, — 2-5 inches long. California Bladder Nct— . 

 Staphylea B61anderi. 



* Leaves with 3-7 blades. (B.) ' 



B. Cluster of flowers narrow and raceme-like and pendulous ; up^ 

 right shrub sometimes tree-like, 6-16 feet high ; bladder about 

 an inch long. European Bladder Nut (112) — Staphylea 

 pinna,ta. 



B. Cluster broad, upright or somewhat nodding ; blades 3-5 ; blad- 

 der 1-2 inches long. Caucasus Bladder Nut (113) — Staphy- 

 lea colchica. 





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Fig 



Staghorn Sumach. 



Fi<3. 113. — Mountain Sanlacft. 



