. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. HEATH FAMILY They remain green and fall during the second summer. Petioles short, stout, slightly flattened. Flowers. — Flowers appear in May or June from buds which are formed in autumn in the axils of the upper leaves in the form of slender cones of downy green scales. These buds usually develop two or more lateral branches, the whole forming a compound many- flowered corymb four or five inches in diameter and overlapped at the flowering time by the leafy blanches of the year. Pedicel
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. HEATH FAMILY They remain green and fall during the second summer. Petioles short, stout, slightly flattened. Flowers. — Flowers appear in May or June from buds which are formed in autumn in the axils of the upper leaves in the form of slender cones of downy green scales. These buds usually develop two or more lateral branches, the whole forming a compound many- flowered corymb four or five inches in diameter and overlapped at the flowering time by the leafy blanches of the year. Pedicels are red or green, hairy or scurfy and furnished with two bracts at base and developed from the axils of large bracts. Calyx.—Five-parted ; lobes imbricate in bud, narrow, acute, cov- ered with glutinous hairs. Disk prominent, ten lobed. Corolla.—Saucer-shaped, rose colored, white, or pink. Tube short with ten tiny sacs just below the five-parted limb ; lobes ovate, acute, imbricate in bud. The border is marked on the inner surface with a waving rosy line and is slightly purple above the sac. The buds are ten-ribbed from the sacs to the acute apex of the bud. '-Ten, hypogynous, shorter than the corolla, at first held in the sacs of the corolla ; filaments thread-like ; anthers oblong, adnate, two-celled; cells opening by a short longitudinal pore. Pistil.—Ovary superior, five-celled; style thread-like, exserted ; stigma capitate; ovules many in each cell. Fruit.—Woody capsule, many seeded, depressed - globular, slightly five-lobed, five-celled, five-valved. Crowned with the per- sistent style, surrounded at base by the persistent calyx, covered with viscid hairs. Seeds oblong. The blossoms of the Moun- tain Laurel are equipped with a most evident device to se- cure cross-fertilization. Nat- ure has many such arrange- ments, but it is not often that they are so openly displayed. In this case, however, he who runs may read. Each flower has ten stamens and each
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