. Our native trees and how to identify them [microform] : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees; Arbres. BIRCH FAMILY Flo7uers. —A\ir\\, May, wnii the leaves. Monnecions, apetalous; the staniinatc naked in long pendulous auients. Those anients appear in midsununer aliout one-half an incli long, stiff, tonientose, with light red brown scales ; they develop from lateral buds and are conspicuous during the winter. In the spring they become about two inches long, loose and drooping. The staminate tlowcr is com- posed of from three to fourteen stamens crowded on a hairy tor
. Our native trees and how to identify them [microform] : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees; Arbres. BIRCH FAMILY Flo7uers. —A\ir\\, May, wnii the leaves. Monnecions, apetalous; the staniinatc naked in long pendulous auients. Those anients appear in midsununer aliout one-half an incli long, stiff, tonientose, with light red brown scales ; they develop from lateral buds and are conspicuous during the winter. In the spring they become about two inches long, loose and drooping. The staminate tlowcr is com- posed of from three to fourteen stamens crowded on a hairy torus, adnate to tiie base of a broadly ovate concave scale, whicli is con- tracted at the into a sharp point, ciliate at margin, longer than the stamens. The pistillate flowers are borne in erect lax amcnts, each flower enclosed in a hairy sac-like body formed by the union of a bract and two bractlets. Ovary, two-celled ; style short, two- lobed ; ovule solitary. Fruit. ~':r,ixoh\\c, consisting of a number of fruiting sac-like in- volucres, each inclosing a small'tlat nut. The fruit cluster is from one to two inches long, borne on a hairy stem and resembles a hop. To find ill the forest a hop-bearing tree is to the uniniti- ated an experience, and the fruit of this Hornbeam so closely resembles that of the common hop-vine that it has given the name to the tree. In- deed, the tree seems to have very little that it can really call its •\ own, for it resembles "*^ the birch in its leaf antl the beech in its spray. One thing, however, is individual, it excels all the other trees of the forest in strength. When wood- men need a iever they seek at once for a Hop Hornbeam, whence its wiki wootl name of Leverwood. This is one of the solitary trees ; never fouiu! in masses, it slands licrc and there in the forest and chooses only cool, fertile, shaded situations. The wood 318. Pistillate and Staminate Aments of Hop Hornbeam, Ostiya Please note that these imag
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