. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. STORAX FAMILY except that one prefers the mountains, the other the swamps. The Snowdrop never becomes a large tree, thirty feet is its maximum height. The leaves are ovate, when full grown are four to five inches long, three to four inches wide, with very conspicuous veins and stout petioles. Tlie flower is cream- white, the corolla fully an inch long and divided nearly to the base into spreading divisions about as long as the stamens, which are usually eight in number. Tlie ovarj' is t
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. STORAX FAMILY except that one prefers the mountains, the other the swamps. The Snowdrop never becomes a large tree, thirty feet is its maximum height. The leaves are ovate, when full grown are four to five inches long, three to four inches wide, with very conspicuous veins and stout petioles. Tlie flower is cream- white, the corolla fully an inch long and divided nearly to the base into spreading divisions about as long as the stamens, which are usually eight in number. Tlie ovarj' is two-celled and like the exserted stigma coated with pale tomentum. The fruit is oblong, com- pressed, one and one-half to two inches long, often an inch wide with two broad wings and sometimes little, narrow, supplementary wings between them. The fruit of the Silverbell has four wings, whence the early specific name tctiaptcra. The Snowdrop-tree is perfectly hardy on the soutliern shore of Lake Erie where it forms a small tree with a beautiful, low, broad head. In flower and foliage and general appearance the Silverbell and the Snowdrop are twin sisters and one is not to be pre- ferred to the other. The name of the genus has suf- fered vicissitudes. In the earlier bot- anies the generic name was Ilaksia, but that is now displaced by MohroJeiidron. Halcsia was a name given to the genus in 1759 in honor of Stephen Hales, a botanist of the eighteenth century who wrote one of the first English books upon vegetable physiology. But it happened that an explorer in Jamaica four years before had given the same name to a genus of tropical plants. So that two widely different genera appeared in the books as Halesia. Such dup- lication of names became in course ot time a source of great confusion in botanic nomenclature and the American Associa-. Fruit of Snowdrop-tree, Alo/'/o dcndron Jtptctum. Z04. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been dig
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