. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 68o California Lilacs and gardens. Califomian local names are Blue myrtle, Blue blossom, Wild lilac, and Tick tree. The thin red-brown bark is finely scaly. The yoimg twigs are strongly ridged and angled, finely hairy, yellow- ish green, becoming smooth, round and brown. The leaves vary from oblong to ovate, and from 2 to 5 cm. in length; they are blunt or blimtish at the apex, nar- rowed or sometimes rounded at the base,
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 68o California Lilacs and gardens. Califomian local names are Blue myrtle, Blue blossom, Wild lilac, and Tick tree. The thin red-brown bark is finely scaly. The yoimg twigs are strongly ridged and angled, finely hairy, yellow- ish green, becoming smooth, round and brown. The leaves vary from oblong to ovate, and from 2 to 5 cm. in length; they are blunt or blimtish at the apex, nar- rowed or sometimes rounded at the base, finely toothed, 3-nerved, smooth and shining on the upper side, more or less hairy on the imder surface, at least along the veins; the leaf-stalks vary from 4 to 12 mm. long. The dense compoimd hairy flower-clusters are 5 to 10 cm. long, borne at the ends of twigs of the season; the flowers are blue or white, fragrant, and open from March to April; the sepals are broadly ovate, the claw of the petals as long as the blade or longer, the stamens as long as the petals or shorter. The 3-lobed fruit is black. The wood is brown, soft, and weak, with a specific gravity of about Fig. 631. — California Lilac. 2. SPINY CEANOTHUS — Ceanothus spinosus NuttaU Inhabiting valleys and canons in southern California, and usually a mere shrub, this species rarely forms a tree 6 or 7 meters high, with a trunk dm. in diameter or less. The bark is red-brown and scaly, the young twigs finely hairy, green, somewhat angled, becoming brown, some of them tippeS by stout thorns i to 3 cm. long. The leaves are elliptic to oblong-obovate, blimt, bluntish or notched at the apex, nar- rowed at the base, 2 to 4 cm. long, pin- nately veined, firm in texture, entire-mar- gined, or those of shoots sometimes toothed, persistent during the winter, hairy on the under side when young, smooth or nearly so on both sides when old, the upper surface dark green, the vmder side paler. The com- pound, rather
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