. Familiar features of the roadside; the flowers, shrubs, birds, and insects. Natural history. 14: FAMILIAR FEATURES OP THE ROADSIDE. setts. This species has broad, oval, dark-green leaves, sharply and irregularly toothed, which are whitish and downy beneath. The smooth alder {Almis ser- rulatci) is found southward and south westward from Massachu- setts ; it forms dense thickets in Pennsyl- vania and Yirginia on the borders of swamps, and farther south attains a height of thirty-five feet. The leaves are obovate, and green on both sides; they are usually smooth, but occasionally downy beneath
. Familiar features of the roadside; the flowers, shrubs, birds, and insects. Natural history. 14: FAMILIAR FEATURES OP THE ROADSIDE. setts. This species has broad, oval, dark-green leaves, sharply and irregularly toothed, which are whitish and downy beneath. The smooth alder {Almis ser- rulatci) is found southward and south westward from Massachu- setts ; it forms dense thickets in Pennsyl- vania and Yirginia on the borders of swamps, and farther south attains a height of thirty-five feet. The leaves are obovate, and green on both sides; they are usually smooth, but occasionally downy beneath. AJmis ioicana is as common along the roadsides in northern ISTew Hampshire as Alnus serrulida is in southern Pennsylvania. The -^villows contribute largely to the beauty of the roadside in spring by their beautiful golden- flecked catkins. The glaucous wil- low {Salix discolor) we will al- ways find hanging over the river's brink and the. A Glaucous Willow Cat- kins : A, sterile iiowers ; B, fertile Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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