56 FAM. 71. 



the inner smaller or wanting; stamens numerous; ovaries 

 few or many, distinct or cohering, berry-like in fruit. 



Leaves deciduous, sepals valvate, petals imbricated; ovaries 3-15 car- 

 peled, tipped by a curved style; berries simple, 1 or more; seeds 

 enclosed in a thin succulent aril imbedded in a yellowish, pulp. 



Asimina, Papaw 

 a. Flowers from the axils of present leaves, ------ b 



a. Flowers appearing with or before the leaves, - - - - - c 



b. Outer petals white or yellowish at maturity. Sandy pine-land. 



Early Summer. - - A. angustifolia (A. pygmaea, Dunal) 



b. Outer petals dull black-purple at maturity. Dry pine-land. 



Early Summer. -------A. pygmaea, Bartr. 



c. Leaves leathery; young leaves densely tomentose on both sides, 



flowers yellowish white. Sandy pine-land. Spring. 



A. speciosa (A. grandiflora) 



c. Leaves membranous, flowers purple when mature, d 



d. Low shrub with gray to reddish bark; mature outer petals less 



than twice as long as the sepals. Dry sandy soil. Spring. A. parviflora 

 d. Tall shrub with dark gray bark; mature outer petals more than 



twice as long as the sepals. Riverbanks. Spring. - - A. triloba 



71. Magnoliaceae, Magnolia Family. 



Trees, shrubs or vines, often with aromatic bark; leaves 

 alternate, stipules deciduous or wanting; flowers solitary, 

 usually showy; calyx of 3 or more petaloid decidous sepals; 

 corolla of 5 or more petals in 2 or more series; stamens 5 

 to numerous with adnate anthers; ovaries numerous in a 

 whorl or imbricate on an elongated receptacle, 1 -celled 

 and 1-2 ovuled; fruit fleshy, baccate or samara-like, distinct 

 or confluent in a conelike head. 



1. Leaves entire, sometimes auricled at the base; fruit dehiscent or a berry, - 2 



1. Leaves 4-lobed, fruit indehiscent, samara-like; — a large tree with de- 



ciduous truncate leaves and large deciduous stipules; flowers 

 terminal, bell-shaped, greenish-yellow tinged with orange; sepals 

 3 reflexed; petals 6 erect; stamens and ovaries numerous; fruit 

 a cone formed by the accrescent 1-2 seeded carpels. Low grounds, 

 and planted. Early summer. 



Liriodendron rutipifera, Tulip Tree or White Poplar 



2. Ovaries in a single whorl, 1-ovuled, becoming follicles in fruit; — ever- 



green shrubs with alternate exstipulate leaves, and solitary flow- 

 ers in the axils, sepals 3-6 in 2 series, deciduous; petals in 3-several 

 series, deciduous; stamens numerous in several series; carpels 

 6-18 in a whorl, ------- Illicium, Anise-tree 



I. parviflorum. Corolla yellow, petals 6-12. Near the coast. Early Summer. 



I. Floridanum. Corolla purple, petals 20-30. In swamps. Spring. 



2. Ovaries imbricated in several series, 2-ovuled, ------ 3 



3. Shrubby vines with monoecious flowers; — alternate, exstipulate, de- 



ciduous leaves, and long-peduncled, mostly crimson flowers 



