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| whitish downy on the under surface; red flowers in drooping clusters ; berries 
glandular, roughish, tasteless, The gardens have a number of varieties of 
this handsome shrub. 
Ribes speciosum, Pursh. Suowy FLOWERING GOOSEBERRY. From 
California; leaves small and shining; flowers hanging bright red, 1 inch long; 
stamens projecting an inch, resembling (as Dr. Gray states) a Fuchsia. Shrub 
1o feet high, with strong, triple spines. ‘“ Berry dry, densely glandular 
bristly.” 
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SCROPHULARIACE., Figwort Family. 
Order (with us) mainly herbs, characterized by somewhat irregular, 2-lipped 
flowers with 4 stamens in pairs of different lengths and occasionally a rudi- 
ment of a fifth; pod 2-celled, with numerous seeds, placentz in the axis. This 
large family has some bitter, tonic, astringent, and antiscorbutic properties 
(though for the most part it is devoid of marked properties), and has many 
showy flowers. Many of its species are root parasites. The Park has but a 
single conspicuous woody species 
Paulownia imperialis, Siedo/d and Zuccarini. A tree with large heart- 
shaped downy leaves; introduced from Japan. Hardy here. Flowers violet- 
colored, nearly 2 inches long, with an irregular lobed border, in large com- 
pound clusters; stamens 4, shorter than the flower. 
SIMARUBACEZ. Quassia Family. 
Of which we have the single species 
! Ailanthus glandulosus, Desfontaines; known by its large compound 
. leaves ‘‘of many oblique, lanceolate, entire, or sparingly sinuate leaves ;” 
) flowers small, greenish, in large branching clusters, the sterile with 10 stamens 
and an abominable odor, the fertile with few or no stamens, but with 2 to 5 
ovaries which develop into narrow, thin, winged fruit. From China. 
STYRACACEZE. Storax Family. 
Trees or shrubs with alternate, simple leaves; flowers with petals more or 
less united; the stamens twice as many as the petals, or more, usually united 
below; pistil of a 1- to 5-celled ovary united wholly or in part to the calyx, 
and a single style. 
Halesia. SNow-Drop, SILVER-BELL TREE. The handsome white flowers 
in drooping clusters from the sides of the branches of the previous season; 
ovary and calyx united; stamens 8 to 16; fruit 2- to 4-winged, with a single 
seed in each of the cells. : 
Halesia diptera, Zinneus. Distinguished by its stamens being nearly free 
from each other, and by its 2-winged fruit. Native of Florida and Georgia. 

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