. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. est Cottonwood over aconsiderable part of its range skirting tliebanks of streams and moist places between thealtitudes of 5000 and 10000 ft. above the is extensively planted as a shade tree in thestreets of towns of Colorado and Utah. The wood is light, a cubic foot lbs., soft, not strong, and of a lightbrown color with lighter sap-wood. Lrarrs lanc(>olate to ovate-lanceolate. 2-?,Vles i.,-*i in. \imu: ij;ro(.veilal)ove but not lateiallv tlatteued. Floinis :nclosel


. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. est Cottonwood over aconsiderable part of its range skirting tliebanks of streams and moist places between thealtitudes of 5000 and 10000 ft. above the is extensively planted as a shade tree in thestreets of towns of Colorado and Utah. The wood is light, a cubic foot lbs., soft, not strong, and of a lightbrown color with lighter sap-wood. Lrarrs lanc(>olate to ovate-lanceolate. 2-?,Vles i.,-*i in. \imu: ij;ro(.veilal)ove but not lateiallv tlatteued. Floinis :nclosely flowered ylalfons sliort-stalked anients :staminato with cun-shaned disk and li! 20 sta-mens : pistillate with cup-shaped disk and hroad-lobed stigmas. F>-iiif in eiect or inclined auKiUs.•J .. in. long with broad-ovoid ciowded sliort-pediceled


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