. Our native trees and how to identify them [microform] : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees; Arbres. WILLOW FAMILY ally, cnlargL' the Icnf is It; FI01V,â >â $.- two and one. A Staminate . I' Flower (it sani, /'ii/)»/«5 hal'.,11)11/\'111 ; enlarged. (1 at the base. Stipules vary in shape and remain until in j,M(iwn. -Mar. Ii, April, before the leaves. I'istillate aments are -liall to four UK hes Ion-;, oiie-liiird of an inch thick ⢠scales are broadly ovate, Vv^hi brown, scarious, often irrc'-ulariy tiiree-lobcd or parted at the apex which
. Our native trees and how to identify them [microform] : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees; Arbres. WILLOW FAMILY ally, cnlargL' the Icnf is It; FI01V,â >â $.- two and one. A Staminate . I' Flower (it sani, /'ii/)»/«5 hal'.,11)11/\'111 ; enlarged. (1 at the base. Stipules vary in shape and remain until in j,M(iwn. -Mar. Ii, April, before the leaves. I'istillate aments are -liall to four UK hes Ion-;, oiie-liiird of an inch thick ⢠scales are broadly ovate, Vv^hi brown, scarious, often irrc'-ulariy tiiree-lobcd or parted at the apex which IS ^ed with short lol)es. . twenty to thirty, with short lilanients and large li-du red anthers, inserted on an oblique, sli^htlv con.'ate short-stalked disk. Ovary ovate, sli-litlv two-jobcd' sessile in a deep cup-shaped disk. Stigmas two, ses- sile, dilated. /â¢'a////'.âFruiting aments four to six indies long; capsuK's oi)en May or June, are ovate-oblong, often curved, two-valved, light brown. Seeds oblong-ovate light ^brown surrounded by slender hairs which sur- round the aments with masses of snow-white cotton which IS wafted with the seed great distances from the tree. The greatest part of the drift tinirKT we observed on the shores of tin; Aretic was Hals.,,,, Poplar. Its Cree name is Mallieh-metoos, wliieli iiieaiis ui^ly âSir John Frank 's kujiort of Fast Journey. '1 he IJalsaiii or Tacmaliac is tlie larj^cst tree of iiortluvestern America. In the valley of the Mackenzie and upper Viikoi, .c attains niagnifi- cent proportions, reaching the of one hundred feet with a diameter of si.\ or seven, and forms dense forests thousands of square miles in It possesses all the poplar characteristics; of drooping catkins, whitish trunk, lluttering shiininering leaves, and cot- tony seeds. Popuhis IhihiUiiift'ia is the tree in nouhcu>'Lciii riiiied States and Canada known as the Balm of (;il
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