. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. s largest size, is as-sociated with the Beech, Sugar Maple, YellowBirch, White and Cork Elms, Butternut,White Ash, etc. Its wood is heavy, a cubic foot when abso-lutely dry weighing lbs., hard, tough,and is used in the manufacture of tool-handlesand other small articles of wooden ware, forfuel, Lcav<s ovate-oblons, in. long, acute oracuminate, narrowed and rounded or cordate ofteninequilateral at base, sharply and unequally ser-rate, at maturity glabrous and dull yellow


. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. s largest size, is as-sociated with the Beech, Sugar Maple, YellowBirch, White and Cork Elms, Butternut,White Ash, etc. Its wood is heavy, a cubic foot when abso-lutely dry weighing lbs., hard, tough,and is used in the manufacture of tool-handlesand other small articles of wooden ware, forfuel, Lcav<s ovate-oblons, in. long, acute oracuminate, narrowed and rounded or cordate ofteninequilateral at base, sharply and unequally ser-rate, at maturity glabrous and dull yellow-greenwith impressed midribs and veins above, lighterand downy beneath, especially along the midribsand in the axils of the veins. Flowers: staminateaments about V2 in. long during the winter andwhen unfolding in. long ; pistillate aments veryslender, with hairy stems and light green or red-dish leaf-like scales, those near the base thelongest. Fruit: strobules IV^--Vi in. long withslender stems about 1 in. long; involucral sacsabout % in. long, pubescent.^ 1. A. W., II, 41. Fur genus ?e p. 4:.


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