. 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. 760 The Madronas thinner, red-brown, and peels off in thin scales. The twigs are rather stout, round, hairy and bright red, becoming darker and scaly. The leaves are thick and leath- ery, ovate to oblong, to 8 cm. long, rounded or pointed at the apex, roimded or narrowed at the base, usually entire on the margin, dark green, smooth and shining above, pale and smooth or sUghtly hairy and reticulate beneath, the leaf- s
. 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. 760 The Madronas thinner, red-brown, and peels off in thin scales. The twigs are rather stout, round, hairy and bright red, becoming darker and scaly. The leaves are thick and leath- ery, ovate to oblong, to 8 cm. long, rounded or pointed at the apex, roimded or narrowed at the base, usually entire on the margin, dark green, smooth and shining above, pale and smooth or sUghtly hairy and reticulate beneath, the leaf- stalk more or less hairy, to 4 cm. long. The flowers appear in March or April, in terminal panicles 5 to 8 cm. across; the pedicels are stout, hairy, about 8 mm. long, with a bract at the base. The calyx is shallow, its lobes sharp- pointed; the corolla is white, ovoid, contracted above the middle, about 7 mm. long, the lobes broad and blunt; ovary whitish hairy. The fruit ripens in late summer, is subglobose, glandular, about 8 mm. in diameter, dark red, the flesh thin; stone thick, the 5 cells containing many, sHghtly hairy seeds. Its wood is hard, close-grained, reddish brovm; its specific gravity is about It is locally used for tool-handles, and by the Mexicans in saddlery. ARIZONA MADRONA—Arbutus arizonica (A. Gray) Sargent Arbutus xalapensis arizonica A. Gray MOST beautiful evergreen tree, growing in gravelly soils, at elevations of about 2100 meters, in the mountains of southern Arizona and adjacent Mexico; its maximum height is about 15 meters, with a trunk diameter of 6 dm. The trunk is tall and rather stout, the branches stout and spreading. The bark of the trunk is 8 to 12 mm. thick, furrowed and scaly, hght gray or whitish, that of younger stems thin- ner, smoother and dark red. The twigs are stout,crooked, somewhat hairy, reddish brown, becoming purplish with a bloom, and finally red. The leaves are lanceo- late or oblong, 4 to 8 cm. long, sharp-pointed,
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