634 Order 1 14.— ABTOOARPACBiE. 



3. CEL'TIS, Tom-n. Nettle Trek. Sdgae-berjit. {Celtis was 

 the ancient name for the Lotus.) Flowers monecio-polygamous. $ 

 Calyx e-partod ; stamens 6 ; i^ calyx 5-parted ; stamens 5 ; style 2 ; 

 stigmas subulate, elongated, spreading ; drupe globular, 1-seeded, seed 

 with little albumen. — Trees or large shrubs. Lvs. mostly oblique at 

 base. Fls. subsolitary, axillary. 



1 C. ocoidentalis 1. Frees ; Ivs. ovate, subcordate or truncate, acuminate, en- 

 tire and unequal at base, serrate, rough above, and rough-hairy beneath ; pedun- 

 cle longer than the petiple; sep. iriangular-ovate, erect ; fr. solitary. — Tree some 

 30f high in K Eng. where it is rarely found, mudh larger (3 to 5f diam., 50 to lOf 

 high) and more abundant South and "West. The trunk has a rough but unbroken 

 bark, with numerous slender, horizontal branches, forming a wide-spread and 

 dense top. Lvs. with a long acumination, and remarkably unequal at the broad 

 base. Fls. axillary, solitary, small and white, succeeded by a small, round drupe. 



/?. CBASSIFOLIA. Lvs. thiok, rough, serrate, cordate, dark green and mottled 

 above. Also a large tree, tall in woods, wide-spread in open lands. Both 

 are often mistaken for Elms. 



y. INTEGBIFOLIA. Lvs. entire, thin, smooth; bark smooth and unbroken. — 

 Banks of the Miss., St. Louis, to N. Orleans. We have specimens with most 

 of the lvs. perfectly entire, some on the same branch with 1 or 2 notches, 

 others notched a fourth of the circuit, &o. (C. Mississippiensis Bosc.) 



2 C. piunila Ph. Shrub ; lvs. broadly ovate, acute or slightly acuminate, partly 

 serrate, smooth on both sides, pubescent only when young ; fls. solitary ; s^. 

 mosUy 6, obbmg-Unear, as long as the styles, TwrizoniaUy spreading. — A straggling 

 shrubj 3 to lOf high, in hilly districts, Va. to Fla. (Chattahoochee). J?loweringat 

 the height of (2f Nutt) Gf. The peculiarity of the flower may perhaps entitle 

 this shrub to tlie rank of a species. Sep. near 2" long. Drupes glaucous black, 

 sweet. Mar. — May. 



Order CXIV. ARTOCARPACE^. Abtocarps. 



Trees or shrviis with a milky acrid or noxious juice, with large deciduous stipules. 



Flowers i $ or g , collected into dense heads or aments, naked or with a lobed calyx. 



Ovary free, 1 (rarely 2)-oelled, 1-ovuled, forming iieshy, aggregated fruit (sorosis or 



syconus, §580). Aclienium with an erect or pendulous, albuminous seed. Kgs. 36, 



149, 450, 451. 



Genera SI, upecifs 240 ? generally natives of the tropics or at least of -warm climates. They 

 arc closely allied to the Nettleworts, differing chiefly in fruit, juice and habit. 



Properties.— T\ie juice is almost always deleterious, sometimes in a high degree. It contains 

 caoutchotte. The celebrated BoJion Upas, the most deadly of all poisons, is the concrete juice 

 of Antiaris to.xicaria^ of the Indian Archipelago. Its poisonous property is said to be due to the 

 presence of etrycIvnAa. Meanwhile the famous cow tree of S. America yields milk which is rich 

 and wholesome. Qnm Inc is obtained abundantly from Fleas Indica. The renowned Barv^afk 

 tree is Ficus religiosa. In this order are also found many excellent fruits. jPVffSnre the fruit of 

 Ficus Carica, Ac. Bread fruit is the compound fruit of Artocarpus ; mulberries of Morns 

 nigra. FiisHa, a yellow dye, is the wood of if. tinctoria of S. America. 



§ Flowers inside the oxcavivtod receptacle, both kinds together Ficus. 4 



§ Flowers external, the 2 kinds separate, in two kinds of aments. (*) 



* Calyx none. Fertile flowers in a globular nment. Thorny Maoluba. 3 



• Calyx 4-parted. Fertile anient globular. Style I Kkoussonbtia. 2 



» Calyx 4-parted, lobes spreading. Fertile aments oblong. Styles 2 Mokcs. 1 



1. fflO^RUS, Tourn. Mulberry. (Celtic mor, black ; the color of the 

 fruit.) Flowers moncecious or dicecious, the ^ in loose catkins-; the 

 $ in dense spike-like catkins ; calyx 4-parted ; stamens 4 ; styles 2 ; 

 achenium compressed, enclosed jvithin the baccate calyx, the whole 

 spike thus constituting a jcompound berry (sorosis.)— Trees with alter- 

 nate, generally lobed lvs. Fls. inconspicuous. 



