STORAX FAMILY 
Calyx.—Obconical, four-ribbed, adnate to ovary, four-toothed, 
tomentose. 
Corolla.—Campanulate, epigynous, slightly four-lobed, white. 
Stamens.—Eight to sixteen, inserted on the base of the corolla; 
filaments flattened ; anthers oblong, adnate or free at base, introrse, 
opening longitudinally. 
Pistil.—Ovary inferior, four-celled ; style long, simply stigmatic 
at apex. 
Fruit.—Dry, crowned with the calyx limb and tipped by the per- 
sistent style ; ellipsoidal, four-winged ; one and a half to two inches 
long, an inch broad, ripens late and remains on branches till mid- 
winter. 
The Silverbell is a most beautiful ornament for lawn or 
park. A native of the mountainous regions of the south it 
is perfectly hardy at the 
north, although in New 
England it keeps its 
shrubby form and in the 
middle west becomes only 
a small tree. It reaches 
its greatest size on the 
western slopes of the 
mountains of North Caro- 
lina and Tennessee. 
Its flowering time is in 
Flowers of the pat nae Mohrodendron May. The flower buds 
have been upon_ the 
branches all winter and just as the leaves have fairly put 
forth, the blossoms appear, and clusters of drooping cream- 
white bells transform the tree into one great white mass of 
which every branch, from highest to lowest, drips blossoms. 
The flowering period lasts about three weeks and the Silver- 
bell is worthy to be grouped with the June-berry, the Dog- 
wood and the Redbud as a flowering tree of rare elegance 
and beauty. 
The Snowdrop-tree, Mohrodendron dipterum, is a closely 
allied species which has developed on the low Jands along 
the southern coast. The two have nearly the same range, 
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