. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. budsare larger, more resin-coated and more curved,Tt is confined in its distribution, as far as nowknown, to the !)anks of streams along theeastern dry foot-hills of the Rocky Mountainsfrom Assiniboia to New Mexico. It is occasion-ally planted as a shade-tree in cities and vil-lages of Colorado and Wyoming. The wood is light, soft, not strong and suit-able for the uses to which the common Cotton-wood is applied. Lraves rhombic-lanceolate, 2-.^> in. long, cnncateor rarely rounded at base
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. budsare larger, more resin-coated and more curved,Tt is confined in its distribution, as far as nowknown, to the !)anks of streams along theeastern dry foot-hills of the Rocky Mountainsfrom Assiniboia to New Mexico. It is occasion-ally planted as a shade-tree in cities and vil-lages of Colorado and Wyoming. The wood is light, soft, not strong and suit-able for the uses to which the common Cotton-wood is applied. Lraves rhombic-lanceolate, 2-.^> in. long, cnncateor rarely rounded at base, aciiminatp, coarselycrenate-serrate excepting at base and apex whicharo mostly entire, lustrous dark green above, dullgreen beneath ; petioles slender, terete, Flowers rather open loose aments ; stami-nate IV^--^ in. long; disk of flower obli(|ue saucei-shaped with numerous stamens : pistillate amentsbecoming .3-4 in. long, drooping : disk cup-siiaped ;stigma laciniate-ldhcd. Fruit in rather 1oo<pdrooping aments with dhlcing ovoid distinctlypediceled and usually .i-valved
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