. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Trees of the N"ortiiebn States and Can .\.DA. 309 The Dwarf Sumach, as its name implies, is a small ti-ee at best and much more commonly a shrub than a tree; still it sometimes attains the height of 25 or ,30 ft. with trunk 8 or 10 in. in diameter. Tliis is generally more or less leaning and divided into a few large branches, ultimately forming a wide spreading top. It is an abundant species covering dry gravelly slopes often to the exclusion of nearly every- thing
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Trees of the N"ortiiebn States and Can .\.DA. 309 The Dwarf Sumach, as its name implies, is a small ti-ee at best and much more commonly a shrub than a tree; still it sometimes attains the height of 25 or ,30 ft. with trunk 8 or 10 in. in diameter. Tliis is generally more or less leaning and divided into a few large branches, ultimately forming a wide spreading top. It is an abundant species covering dry gravelly slopes often to the exclusion of nearly every- thing else. Its singular and beautiful leaves, with rachises winged between the leaflets, give it an individuality at once recognizable, and its bunches of crimson fruit add not a little to its ornamental value. In autuiim it is brilliant in various tints of red and purple. The wood is light, a cubic foot weighing lbs., soft and of a greenish brown color with ligliter sap-wood. The bark and leaves are rich in tannin and the fruit. similar in jjroperties to that of the Stag-horn Sumacli. Lctii-vH deciduous, pinnate, 6-8 in. long-, with pubescent petiole and rachis, tlie latter winj;cd between the leaflets: leatlets ovate-lanceolat(^ to oblong, subsessile, entire or remotely serrate towards the apex, acute or acuminate, lustrous dark green above, paler and pubescent beneath. Flowers in midsummer, about Vs in. across, yellow- green, in short dense pubescent terminal panicles. 4-6 in. long ; the pistillate considerably smalbM-. Fruit in compact erect or nodding clusters, often persisting on the branches through the entire winter; drupe about % in. across, compressed, crimson, covered with short acid hairs; stone smooth. Var. laiiccolata, Gray, is a small tree of eastern Texas with narrower and more falcate leaflets and larger bunches of flow^ers and fruit. Var. Jcacaniha (. de C. is another form found in Texas (near New Rraunfels) with white flowers. 1. A. W., XII, Ple
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