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trees are broad and rounded. The bark is %4’-14’ thick, 
divided into small angular plates, covered with black scales. 
Leaves | oblong-lanceolate to oblong-obovate 2’-5’ long, 
14’-1144’ wide, entire or with undulate margins, sometimes 
slightly lobed near the apex, blue green above, pale hairy 
beneath, slightly bristle tipped. Acorns borne sessile, pro- 
duced in great numbers; nut oblong to subglobose, 14’ long, 
light brown often striate, hoary pubescent at the apex: -cup 
saucer-shaped enclosing the nut only at the base or for about 
one-half its length. | 
North Carolina to Florida and west to Texas. It occurs 
principally on sandy uplands, mostly near the coast. In Texas 
it extends to the valley of the Brazos. 
The wood is hard, close grained, strong. It is used prin- 
cipally for fuel. The trees of our area are small. 
MORACEAE. The Mulberry Family. 
Trees with milky sap; leaves simple, alternate, two ranked, 
serratc entire or variously lobed, 3-5 veined at the base; flow- 
ers borne in ament-like spikes or heads on the outside of a 
receptacle or on the inside of a closed receptacle; fruit com- 
pound, drupaceous. 
1. Flowers on the outside of the receptacle. 
a. Flowers all in spike like catkins, fruit an 
elongated edible berry somewhat re: 
sembline: the “DIackberhys. . ec... sh eure Se 1. Morus. 
b. Pistillate flowers in heads, fruit globose, 
not edible. 
(1) Branches armed with thorns, leaves 
VUES 2 Fab Oe tree ean te i ye 2 Loxylon: 
(2) Branches unarmed, leaves serrate or 
LOWS: fox ie cle a eden SeMeaese re ie teteba ede 3. Broussonetia. 
2. Flowers borne inside a hollow receptacle...... 4. Ficus. 
1. MORUS. The Mulberries. 
Trees with edible fleshy fruit, milky juice; flowers monoe- 
cious or dioecious; leaves often deeply irregularly lobed. 
