. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 356 The Hackberries 15 meters or more; its bark is thick and usually corky-roughened or warty, though sometimes smooth. The young twigs are hairy and green, but become smooth and reddish brown. The leaves are ovate to ovate-lanceolate, pointed, coarsely toothed, though sometimes with few teeth, often 15 cm. long, and rather thin; they are dark green and rough, with papillae on the upper surface, which is covered with shor
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 356 The Hackberries 15 meters or more; its bark is thick and usually corky-roughened or warty, though sometimes smooth. The young twigs are hairy and green, but become smooth and reddish brown. The leaves are ovate to ovate-lanceolate, pointed, coarsely toothed, though sometimes with few teeth, often 15 cm. long, and rather thin; they are dark green and rough, with papillae on the upper surface, which is covered with short stiff hairs until the leaf is nearly or quite mature; the lower surface is rough-hairy, especially along the veins. The nearly black short-oblong or nearly round fruit is about i cm. in diameter, its stalk longer than the leaf-stalk. , The wood is heavy, not very strong, light yellow; it has a limited use for furniture, flooring, and fencing. 4. MISSISSIPPI HACKBERRY — Celtis mississippiensis Bosc A tree which under favorable conditions attains a height of 30 meters, with a trunk about i meter in thickness. It prefers the moist soil of river valleys and banks, and ranges from Georgia and Florida westward to Tennessee, southern Illinois, Missouri, Texas, and northeast- em Mexico, and also occurs in Bermuda. It is usually easily distinguished from the others by its long usually quite en- tire-margined leaves and small fruit. The thick bark is light gray and warty, with corky projections. The young twigs are either smooth or somewhat hairy, greenish, but soon become red- brown and shining. The leaves are thin, 5 to 12 cm. long, lanceolate to ovate-lan- ceolate, or some of them ovate, long- pointed, slender-stalked, nearly equally bright green on both surfaces, or some- what paler beneath, rarely with a few small sharp teeth; the narrow stipules faH away while the leaves are unfolding; Fig. 314. — Mississippi Hackberry. jhe petioles vary from 7 to 16 mm. long. The fruit is ov
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