. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. PEA FAMILY Stamens.—Ten, five long and five short, free, included ; filaments thread-like ; anthers orange colored, introrse ; in the pistillate flower small and sterile. Pistil.—Ovary superior, sessile, hairy, contracted into a short style, with two stigmatic lobes ; ovules in two rows. Fruit.—Legume, six to ten inches long, one and one-half to two inches wide, somewhat curved, with thickened margins, dark reddish brown with slight glaucous bloom, crowned with remnant of the styles. St
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. PEA FAMILY Stamens.—Ten, five long and five short, free, included ; filaments thread-like ; anthers orange colored, introrse ; in the pistillate flower small and sterile. Pistil.—Ovary superior, sessile, hairy, contracted into a short style, with two stigmatic lobes ; ovules in two rows. Fruit.—Legume, six to ten inches long, one and one-half to two inches wide, somewhat curved, with thickened margins, dark reddish brown with slight glaucous bloom, crowned with remnant of the styles. Stalks an inch or two long. Seeds six to nine, surrounded by a thick layer of dark, sweet pulp. When Kentucky was first settled by the adventurous pioneers from the Atlan- tic states who commenced their career in the primeval wilderness, almost with- out the necessaries of life, except as they produced them from the fertile soil, they fancied that they had discovered a substitute for coffee in the seeds of this tree ; and accordingly the name of Coffee-tree was bestowed upon it. But when communication was established with the sea-ports, they gladly relinquished their Kentucky beverage for the more grateful flavor of the Indian berry ; and no use is at present made of it in that manner. —A. J. This is another of the solitary trees of our flora. It grows north as far as Montreal and south to the limits of Arkansas, nevertheless one may be a student of forest trees many years ere one finds the Kentucky Coffee-tree growing on its native hills. In pleasure grounds it is not uncom- mon, since it is often planted because of its unique appearance and interesting character. Like the Sumach it is wholly destitute of fine spray, its smaller branches are thick, blunt, clumsy and lumpish. Other trees lose their leaves but along their twigs and branchlets are borne the buds, the hope and the promise of the coming year. But the Gymnorfadus seems so destitute of these, that the
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