. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. WITCH HAZEL FAMILY Wood.—Blight reddish brown, sapwood nearly ; heavy> straight, satiny, close-grained, not strong ; will take a beaiitilul pol- ish ; warps badly in drying. Has been used with good resulis in the interior finish of sleeping cars and fine houses. The wood is usually cut in veneers ami backed up with some other \ariety which shrinks and warps less. Sp. gr., 05910; weight of cu. ft., lbs. U7/thr Biiiis.—Yellow brown, one-fourth of an inch long, acute. The i
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. WITCH HAZEL FAMILY Wood.—Blight reddish brown, sapwood nearly ; heavy> straight, satiny, close-grained, not strong ; will take a beaiitilul pol- ish ; warps badly in drying. Has been used with good resulis in the interior finish of sleeping cars and fine houses. The wood is usually cut in veneers ami backed up with some other \ariety which shrinks and warps less. Sp. gr., 05910; weight of cu. ft., lbs. U7/thr Biiiis.—Yellow brown, one-fourth of an inch long, acute. The inner scales enlarge with the growing shoot, becoming hall an inch long, green tipped with red. Loaves.—Alternate, three to fi\e inches long, three to seven inches broad, lobed, so as to make a star-shaped leaf of ri\ e to se\en divis- ions, these divisions acutely pointed, with glandular serrate teeth. The base is truncate or slightly heart-shaped. They come out of the bud plicate, downy, pale green, when lull grown are bright green, smooth, shining above, paler beneath. In autumn they vary in color from yellow through crimson to purple. They contain tan- nin and when bruised give a resinous fragrance. Petioles long, slender, terete. Stipules lanceolate, acute, caducous. Flo7V09's.—March to May, when ]ea\es are half grown ; monceci- ous, greenish. Staminate flowers in terminal racemes two to tliree inches long, covered with rusty hairs ; the pistillate in a solitary head on a slender peduncle borne in the of an upper leaf. Stam- inate flowers destitute of and corolla, but surrounded by hairy bracts. Stamens indefinite ; filaments short ; anthers introrse. Pistillate flowers with a two-celled, t\.o- beaked ovarv-, the carpels produced into a long, recurved, persistent style. The ova- ries all more or less cohere and harden in fruit. Ovules man\" but fcvv mature. Fiiiit. — Multicapsular spherical head, an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, hangs o
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