TREES of horticultural and lumber value. Leaves alternate serrate, unequal at base, with ribs and short petioles. Flowers greenish, inconspicuous, perfect. Fruit a dry nutlet with thin encircling wing, bearing two hooks at apex.
Genus CELTIS, Linn.
Valuable shade trees. Leaves simple, 3-nerved, serrate.
Flowers polygamo-moncecious, axillary, small. Fruit sweet, succulent berry.
Leaves coarsely and sharply serrate; fruit large.
(C. Occidentalis) HACKBERRY Leaves entire or obscurely serrate; fruit small.
(C. Mississippiensis) SUGARBERRY