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in the axils; sepals 5-0 in 2 series, deciduous; petals 5-6 in 1 •_' 

 series, deciduous; stamens 5. united, forming a 5-lobed disk; 

 ovaries numerous; fruit a spike of red berries on the much elon- 

 gated receptacle. In woods. Early Summer. 



Schizandra coccinea, Bay-star Vine 



3. Erect shrubs or trees with perfect flowers; — alternate stipulate leaves; 

 flowers white, solitary, terminal; sepals 3. deciduous; petals 

 6-12 in 2-4 series; stamens numerous in many series; carpels 

 numerous; fruit a cone of imbricated fleshy follicles tipped by 

 the style or stigma; seeds scarlet, at length suspended by a thread. 

 Our species are evergreens with coriaceous leaves, - - Magnolia 



M. grandiflora, Magnolia or Laurel Bay. A tall tree with leaves smooth and 

 glossy above, rusty-pubescent below; flowers large, creamy white, fragrant, 

 changing to brown. In hammocks and planted. Spring and Summer. 



M. Virginiana ^glauca), Sweet Bay. A shrub or slender tree; leaves glabrous 

 above, glaucous below; flowers white, fragrant. In swamps. Early Sum- 

 mer. 



Cultivated Magnolias with the flowers appearing before the leaves in Spring are: 

 M. Yulan conspicua>. a tree with large, white, sweet-scented flowers; sepals 



and petals almost alike. 

 M. obovata, a large shrub with large, scentless flowers, white inside and pur- 

 plish to deep crimson outside; sepals small, greenish yellow. 



M. Soulangiana, a hybrid of the preceding two, with flowers often fragrant 

 and sepals usually colored; corolla white inside, pink outside. 



C losely allied to the genus Magnolia is: 



Michelia ^Magnolia) fuscata, Banana Shrub, an evergreen with small, banana- 

 scented, brownish-yellow flowers; sepals and petals similar. 9-15 or more, 

 in 3 or more series; stamens numerous; fruit a spike of leathery carpels; 

 seeds as in Magnolia. Cultivated. 



72. Cabombaceae, Water Shield Family. 



Aquatic caulescent herbs with the foliage mucilage, 

 coated; the submerged leaves dissected, the floating leave- 

 peltate; the solitary small flowers on long axillary peduns 

 cles, with a perianth of two whorls, each 3-,rarely 4-leaved- 

 In ponds and slow-flowing water. Summer. 



Cabomba Caroliniana Flowers white, yellow or pink; stamens 6. pistils 2-1. 

 Braseaia purpurea (.peltata). Flowers dull purple; stamens 12-18, pistils 4-8. 



73. Nelumbonaceae, Lotus Family. 



Aquatic herbs with long creeping rootstocks and al- 

 ternate concave peltate leaves on stout petioles; single 

 showy flowers on stout scapes; perianth of numerous parts, 

 hypogynous; stamens numerous; carpels imbedded in a 



