Part 8 (1/2)

=a.= Fruit small ( in.), fleshy, drupe-like, with a striate stone; limbs branching horizontally, often descending 46. _Nyssa._

=a.= Fruit a black, juicy berry (1/3- in.), with about 3 seeds 20. _Rhamnus._

=a.= Fruit an ovoid dry drupe ( in.); leaves sweet-tasting 59. _Symplocos._

=a.= Fruit an apple-like pome (Quince) 37. _Pyrus._

=b.= Wood soft; both kinds of flowers in catkins in spring; with either stipules or stipular sears 91. _Salix._

=b.= Wood hard; leaves thick; fruit an acorn 88. _Quercus._

=c.= Fruit a 2-4-seeded small berry; juice not milky 20. _Rhamnus._

=c.= Fruit large, orange-like in size and color when ripe; juice milky 77. _Maclura._

=c.= Fruit small, black when ripe, cherry-like; juice milky 54. _b.u.melia._

=d.= Aromatic; berries dark blue on red stalks 68. _Persea._

=d.= Not aromatic; leaves nearly 1 ft. long; flowers large and solitary. 1. _Magnolia._

=d.= Not aromatic; leaves 1-4 in. long; flowers very small; fruit small dark-colored berries, with 2-4 seeds 20. _Rhamnus._

=d.= Not aromatic; flowers large, in showy cl.u.s.ters. (=e.=)

=e.= Leaves 5 in. or more long 52. _Rhododendron._

=e.= Leaves less than 4 in. long 51. _Kalmia._

=f.= Leaves decidedly aromatic, usually somewhat irregularly lobed, margin entire, base tapering 69. _Sa.s.safras._

=f.= Leaves usually deltoid, sometimes heart-shaped with serrate margin and gummy buds, rarely palmately lobed.

All have either the petiole flattened sidewise, the leaf-blade densely silvery-white beneath, or gummy aromatic buds 92. _Populus._

=f.= Leaves broadly heart-shaped; margin entire; small tree with abundance of red flowers in early spring; fruit a pea-like pod. 32. _Cercis._

=f.= Leaves not as above given. (=g.=)

=g.= Leaves broadly heart-shaped, with a serrate margin and a petiole about as long as the blade, sometimes longer; base of leaf not oblique 4. _Idesia._

=g.= Leaves broadly heart-shaped, those on the suckers much lobed; base not oblique; margin serrate; juice milky; bark very tough. (=l.=)

=g.= Leaves broadly heart-shaped, with an oblique base; margin regularly serrate; juice not milky 11. _Tilia._

=g.= Leaves slightly if at all heart-shaped at base, usually somewhat oblique, with neither milky juice nor lobes. (=j.=)

=g.= Leaves decidedly and quite regularly lobed. (=h.=)

=h.= Leaves with 3-5 large lobes, the margin entire or slightly angulated. 10. _Sterculia._

=h.= Leaves star-shaped, with 5-9 pointed, serrate lobes.