. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. stipulate. Apparently they often appear in pairs, but these pairs are really borne on spur-like two-leaved lateral branchlets. The flowers are monoecious, opening with or before the leaves and borne in three- flowered clusters in the axils of the scales of drooping or erect aments. Staminate anients are pendulous, clustered or solitary in the axils of the last leaves of the branch of the year or near the ends of the short lateral branchlets of the year. They form in early autumn and re-
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. stipulate. Apparently they often appear in pairs, but these pairs are really borne on spur-like two-leaved lateral branchlets. The flowers are monoecious, opening with or before the leaves and borne in three- flowered clusters in the axils of the scales of drooping or erect aments. Staminate anients are pendulous, clustered or solitary in the axils of the last leaves of the branch of the year or near the ends of the short lateral branchlets of the year. They form in early autumn and re- main rigid dur- ing the winter. The scales of the staminate aments when re broadly ovate, yellow or orange . â i iT Branch of Red Birch, low the middle, a,a;a,â,,,,sllow. StllUt brown at ing the Staminate , , i Aments as they Ap- ich scale bears . .... pear in Winter. tlets and three nvers, each flower consisting of a ;mbranaceous, usually two-lobed, wch calyx bears four short tila- ith one-celled anthers or strictly, mts divided into two branches, each bearing a half-anther. Anther cells open longitudinally. The pistillate aments are erect or pendulous, solitary ; terminal ,.,,. of on the two-leaved lateral spur-like branch- Birch, Bctuia lets of the year. The pistillate scales are tenia. Staminate , i . , i i i i , ,, oblong-ovate, three-Iobed, pale yellow green Aments y to 4 long. to ' ' r J o often tinged with red, becoming brown at maturity. These scales bear two or three fertile flowers, each flower consisting of a naked ovary. The ovary is 2q6 Four Staminate and One. 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 Keeler, Harriet L. (Harriet Louise), 1846-1921. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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