. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. ermination and growth, as they fall on thebanks at the season of low water, germinateand make substantial growth when a laterseed would have found only water in which toperish. The wood of the River Birch, of which acubic foot when dry weighs lbs., is usedin the manufacture of wooden ware, etc.^ Leaves rhomhiG-ovatP, acute. 2-4 in. long, widecuneate or almost truncate and entire at base,serrate and serrately-lobed or doubly serrate, paletomentose at first but finally lustrous dark gr
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. ermination and growth, as they fall on thebanks at the season of low water, germinateand make substantial growth when a laterseed would have found only water in which toperish. The wood of the River Birch, of which acubic foot when dry weighs lbs., is usedin the manufacture of wooden ware, etc.^ Leaves rhomhiG-ovatP, acute. 2-4 in. long, widecuneate or almost truncate and entire at base,serrate and serrately-lobed or doubly serrate, paletomentose at first but finally lustrous dark greenabove and tomentose on midribs and veins be-neath ; petioles slender, tomentose : branehlets thefirst season tomentose. Flowers: staminateaments 1 in. or less long in winter with roundedlustrous scales finally 2-3 in. long: pistillateaments about V> in. long with pubescent ciliatescales. Fruit ripening in May or .June in cylindri-cal strobiles 1-1V2 in. long, with short tomentosepeduncles and scales with :? about equal narrowlobes ; nutlet oval and about as wide as the ciliatewings. W., IV,
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