KEYS TO THE GENERA 53 



I. Leaves J inch long and sharp-pointed, evergreen. Junlperus 



(p. 337). 

 I. Leaves much smaller. Erica (p. 254). 



* Leaves evergreen in clusters along the sides of the stem, needle- 



shaped. Piuus (p. 324). 



Key 10. Key to those deciduous bushes vrhich have flowers during 

 the fall, winter, and spring, when the stems are bare of foliage. The 

 arrangement of the leaves is easily determined by their scars. 



* Flowers regular, not lopsided, on alternate leaved hushes. (A.) 



A. Corolla united at base. (In Daphne and Diroa this is a calyx.) 

 (B.) 

 B. Flower with tubular portion and a 4-lobed border. Daphne 



(p. 298). Dlrca (p. 297). 

 B. Flower with a 5-lobed edge. (AzMea is sometimes double.) (C.) 

 C. Flowers small, white or pinkish, urn-shaped. Vaccinium 



(p. 244). 

 C. Flowers large, 1 inch, funnel-shaped. AzMea (p. 267). 

 A. Corolla with separate petals. (Sometimes these pieces are in 

 reality calyx.) (D.) 

 D. Flowers yellow, small, in clusters, 6 parts. Benzbin (p. 297). 



Sassafras (p. 296). 

 D. Flowers (1 inch) with 4 slender yellow petals. HamamSlis 



(p. 202). 

 D. Flowers with 5 yellow petals. CoryWpsis (p. 204). 

 D. Flowers large, 1-6 inches, with 6 or more thick petals. Mag- 



n61ia (p. 58). 

 D. Flowers |-1 inch vrith 5 white or pinkish petals (sometimes 



double). Primus (p. 142). Spirsea (p. 146). 

 D. Flowers J-1^ inches with 6 brownish petals. Asfmina (p. 64). 

 D. Flowers very small, | inch, pink in clusters, with 4 or 5 petals. 

 T^marix (p. 73). 



* Flowers irregular or lopsided, red or purplish, pea-shaped on alter- 



nate-leaved bushes. Carols (p. 127). 



* Flowers regular on opposite-leaved bushes. (E.) 



E. Flowers yellow, bell-shaped (1 inch long) with 4-lobed border. 

 Forsythia (p. 274). 



E. Flowers yellow, small in clusters with 4 separate petals. Cdrnus 

 Mas (p. 216). 



E. Flowers large, 1 inch, yellow with a tubular corolla having 5-lobed 

 border ; stem green and 4-angled. Jasminum (p. 273). 



E. Flowers large, 1 inch, yellowish brown, with many thick sweet- 

 scented petals. Calycinthus (p. 186). 



