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exserted. Ovary ovoid or sub-globose, superior. Capsule 
oblong or cylindric, erect. Seeds numerous, minute. The 
testa punctate. 
1. Dodecatheon Meadia L. Shooting Star. American Cow¬ 
slip. Perennial by a stout rootstock. Scape erect, 8'-24' high. 
Leaves oblong to ovate or oblanceolate, narrowed into margined 
petioles or subcordate, entire or toothed. Flowers few in umbels, 
9"-15" long. Pedicels re-curved in flower, erect in fruit, unequal. 
Corolla purple, pink or white. Capsule narrowly ovoid. 
On moist cliffs and prairies. April-May. Cleveland and Murray 
counties. 
FAMILY 66. EBENACE^E. Ebony Family. 
Trees or shrubs with alternate, entire, ex-stipulate 
leaves, and dioecious, polygamous, or, rarely, perfect, reg¬ 
ular flowers, solitary or cymose in the axils. Calyx in¬ 
ferior, 3-7-lobed, commonly accrescent and persistent. 
Corolla gamopetalous, deciduous, 3-7-lobed, the lobes 
usually convolute in the bud. Stamens 2-4 times as many 
as the divisions of the corolla. Ovary 3-12-celled. Ovules 
1 or 2 in each cell. Fruit a berry. 
I. DIOSPYROS L. 
Trees or shrubs, with broad leaves and lateral cymose, 
racemose, or solitary flowers, the pistillate commonly sol¬ 
itary, the staminate usually clustered. Calyx 4-6-cleft, 
enlarging in fruit. Corolla urceolate, 4-6-lobed. Stamens 
8-20 in the sterile flowers. Styles 2-6 in the pistillate 
flowers. Ovary globose or ovoid. Berry large, pulpy. 
Seeds 4-12, flat, oblong. 
1. Diospyros virginiana L. Persimmon. Usually a small tree. 
Leaves ovate or oval, entire. Flowers dioecious, mostly 4-parted. 
Corolla greenish-yellow. Fruit globose, 1' or more in diameter, red- 
dish-yellow and sweet when ripe, astringent when green, ripening 
after frost. 
In fields and woods. May-June. Common. 
