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TREES AND SHE 



are small, less than y 4 inch in diameter, but borne in large ter- 

 minal panicles. They are pale cream colored and endure for 

 some considerable time. This is one of the most graceful na- 

 tive shrubs, and is a very profuse bloomer. It should do well 

 in cultivation at middle elevations in the State. 



ROSACEAE. Rose Family. 



Herbs, shrubs and trees with alternate stipulate leaves (stip- 

 ules often fug and perfect flowers ; hypanthium saucer shaped, 

 spherical, turbinate, or tubular, often margined by a disk bearing the 

 stamens; sepals and petals normally 5, rarely of a different number, 

 petals wanting in one genus: stamens numerous, sometimes reduced 

 to 5: car] e s 1 to many, dry or fleshy, dehiscent in a few genera; 

 fruit achenes,* follicles or drupelets, (j n some genera the receptacle 

 is accrescent). 



A large family, many of the species of economic importance, 

 including the originals from which various horticultural varieties have 

 been developed. These includi small fruits and many 



decorative plants that are extensively used. 



Hypanthium constricted at the throat, wholly 



inclosing the achenes, becoming more or 



less fleshy in fruit: carpels numerous. 

 Hypanthium not constricted at the throat, 



neither fleshy nor prickly, at most loosely 



investing: the fruits 



Fruit consisting of 1 to 5 dehiscent follicles. 

 Follicles more or less united at the base: 

 leaves broadly ovate and lobed, 1 to 

 inches long. 



Follicles distinct, usually 5; leaves very 

 small, spatulate, less than >•'. an inch 

 l'.nt;. 



Fruit usually consisting of numerous inde- 

 hescent carpels, becoming either achenes 

 or drupelets. 

 Cat ming more or less fleshy drupe- 



Styles filiform: stigmas capitate; leaves 



compound: stems spiny. 

 Styles club-shaped: stigmas 2-lobed; 

 leaves simple; stems unarmed. 

 Drupelets capped by a hard hairy cush- 

 lon; stems suffrutescent. dying back 

 fruit pleasantlv acid 

 and pulpy Bossekia. 



1. Rosa. 



Opulaster. 



Petrophtton. 



4. Batidaea. 



