. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. es, and a pecu-liar feature is the wide wing-like growths ofcork which develop on opposite sides of someof its branchlets, particularly the lowermostand those near the tnuik of the tree. It isfrom this feature that it takes both its com-mon and technical names. Its wood is heavy, a cubic foot when abso-lutely dry weighing lbs., hard and diffi-cult to split, though it is not considered asstrong as that of the northern Lenvrs ovate-olilong. from abruptly wedge-shapi>dto subco
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. es, and a pecu-liar feature is the wide wing-like growths ofcork which develop on opposite sides of someof its branchlets, particularly the lowermostand those near the tnuik of the tree. It isfrom this feature that it takes both its com-mon and technical names. Its wood is heavy, a cubic foot when abso-lutely dry weighing lbs., hard and diffi-cult to split, though it is not considered asstrong as that of the northern Lenvrs ovate-olilong. from abruptly wedge-shapi>dto subcordate at base and somewhat inequilateral,acute or acuminate, doubly serrate, at maturityfirm, smooth, dark green above, pale pubescent bi--neath. Flowers appearing in early spring beforethe leaves, in short few-flowered fascicles; calyx-glabrous with > obovate lobes. Fruit ripenin<;usually before the unfolding of the leaves, samarafrom 1/4-^! in. in length, long-stipitate, white-hairy especially on the thickened margin ; wingsnariow and with protruded points incurved atapex. 1. A. W., XII,
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