Excerpt: ...Genus 53. CLETHRA. Shrubs or trees with alternate, simple, deciduous, exstipulate, serrate leaves. Flowers (July and August) conspicuous, white, in elongated terminal racemes which are covered with a whitish powder. Fruit 3-celled pods with many seeds, covered by the calyx. Leaves thin, large, 3 to 7 in. long, pale beneath 1. Leaves thickish, smaller, green both sides 2. C. acuminata. 1. Clethra acuminata, Michx. ( Acuminate-leaved Clethra. Sweet Pepper-bush. ) Leaves 3 to 7 in. long, oval to oblong, pointed, ...
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Excerpt: ...Genus 53. CLETHRA. Shrubs or trees with alternate, simple, deciduous, exstipulate, serrate leaves. Flowers (July and August) conspicuous, white, in elongated terminal racemes which are covered with a whitish powder. Fruit 3-celled pods with many seeds, covered by the calyx. Leaves thin, large, 3 to 7 in. long, pale beneath 1. Leaves thickish, smaller, green both sides 2. C. acuminata. 1. Clethra acuminata, Michx. ( Acuminate-leaved Clethra. Sweet Pepper-bush. ) Leaves 3 to 7 in. long, oval to oblong, pointed, thin, abruptly acute at base, finely serrate, on slender petioles, smooth above and glaucous below. Racemes drooping, of sweet-scented flowers, with the bracts longer than the flowers. Filaments and pod hairy. A small tree or shrub, 10 to 20 ft. high, in the Alleghanies, Virginia, and south. Not often in cultivation, but well worthy of it. Pg 118 C. alnifolia. 2. Clethra alnifolia, L. ( Common Sweet Pepper-bush. ) Leaves wedge-obovate, sharply serrate near the apex, entire near the base, straight-veined, smooth, green on both sides. Racemes erect, often compound, with bracts shorter than the flowers and with smooth filaments. This is a shrub rather than a tree; abundant in wet places east of the Alleghanies. Occasionally cultivated for its sweet-scented flowers. Order XXVI. SAPOTACEAE. ( Sapodilla Family. ) A small order, mainly of tropical plants, here including one genus found only in the southern part of our range. Genus 54. BUMELIA. Leaves simple, alternate, entire, sub-evergreen, exstipulate; branches often spiny. Flowers small, whitish, usually crowded in fascicles. Fruit a black cherry-like drupe with a 2- to 3-celled nut. Shrubs and trees of the Southern States. Two species (although hardly trees) are found far enough north to be included in this work. Leaves rusty-woolly beneath 1. Leaves smooth or slightly silky beneath 2. B. lanuginosa. 1. Bumelia lanuginosa, Pers. ( Woolly-leaved Buckthorn. ) Leaves oblong-obovate, ..
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