TREES of small or medium size, with milky sap. Leaves simple, alternate, deciduous, variable. Flowers minute, in axillary spikes or heads, dicecious or moncecious. Fruit com pound, of many small, fleshy drupes.
RED MutmErnav (Morns rubra, Linn.). 60 to 70 feet. Round-headed, dense tree with milky sap. Trunk short; branches stout. Bark reddish brown, dividing into scaly plates. Wood orange, light, coarse, weak, durable in soil, used for fencing and cooperage. Leaves variable in form, 3 to 5 inches long, broadly oval, saw-toothed, cordate at base, thin, firm, dark green above, paler beneath, roughened by pale pubescence above and soft hairs beneath. Veins joined in line
back of the margin. Flowers in stalked, axillary spikes, ap pearing with leaves. Fruit a fleshy, sweet, aggregate of calyxes, about I inch long, red when full grown, purple when ripe; edible, juicy. Dist.: Rich soil; Massachusetts to On tario, Michigan, Nebraska, Kansas; south to Florida and Texas.