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DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OE STAPHYLEA 



* Leaves with 3 blades. (A.) 



A. All the blades short-stalked with serrate awned edges 1^2J 



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



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



Staphylea Bumdlda. 

 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 Nut—. 

 Staphylea Bblanderi. 



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



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

 right shrub sometimes tree-like, 6-15 feet high ; bladder about 

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

 pinn^ta. 



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

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

 lea colchica. 



Ms:- 



Fro. 114- — Staghorn Sumach. 



Mountain Sumacft. 



