. 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. Western Red Birch 253 glandular, reddish brown, shining, becoming gray-brown; the winter buds are ovoid, pointed, 5 or 6 mm. long. The leaves are ovate, mostly broadly ovate, 6 cm. long or less, and often nearly as wide as long, a little hairy when very young, smooth when old; the upper surface dark green, not shining, the under side paler green; they are pointed at the apex, obtuse or nearly truncate at the base, sharply
. 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. Western Red Birch 253 glandular, reddish brown, shining, becoming gray-brown; the winter buds are ovoid, pointed, 5 or 6 mm. long. The leaves are ovate, mostly broadly ovate, 6 cm. long or less, and often nearly as wide as long, a little hairy when very young, smooth when old; the upper surface dark green, not shining, the under side paler green; they are pointed at the apex, obtuse or nearly truncate at the base, sharply and rather coarsely irregu- larly toothed, their slender stalks to cm. long. The stami- nate catkins are borne 2 or 3 to- gether; they are about cm. long, their scales ovate and pointed; the pistillate catkins are glandular- stalked and shorter, in fruit becom- ing about 2 cm. long and 5 mm. in diameter, their scales about 3 mm. long, hairy-margined, the middle tooth pointed, rather narrower than the lateral ones but about as long; the thin oblong nut is about 2 mm. about as wide as its membranous Fig. 209. — Kenai Birch. long and. 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 Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Shafer, John Adolph. New York : H. Holt and Co.
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