. Our native trees and how to identify them [microform] : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees; Arbres. STORAX FAMILY except that one prefers the mountains, the other the swamps he Sncwclrop nev.,- I,:.. a ,.e tree, thirty feet is Us "axnunm height. Th. h-av^s are .vat., u„en fn 1 ,M-,nvn a e ^"-•^',, three to four vems and stout petioles. The done is crJam^ , the corolla fully an inclMon, anci divided neaHy to ^hc^ l)ase spreading,, divisions about as lon^^ as the whic are usually eight n,
. Our native trees and how to identify them [microform] : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees; Arbres. STORAX FAMILY except that one prefers the mountains, the other the swamps he Sncwclrop nev.,- I,:.. a ,.e tree, thirty feet is Us "axnunm height. Th. h-av^s are .vat., u„en fn 1 ,M-,nvn a e ^"-•^',, three to four vems and stout petioles. The done is crJam^ , the corolla fully an inclMon, anci divided neaHy to ^hc^ l)ase spreading,, divisions about as lon^^ as the whic are usually eight n, The ovarv two-celled and l,ke the exserted coated with pa'! tonienluni. 'J'he fruit is oblong, com- pressed, one and one half to two inches l(Hi,- often an inch wide with two broad wnio-s and sometimes little, narrow, supplementary wings between' tliem. The friul ol the Silverbell has four wings, whence the early specific name tctiaptt'ia. Tlie Snowdrop-tree is perfectly hardy on the southern shore of Lake Krie where it forms a small tree with abeautiful, low, broad head. In flower and foliage and general appearance the Sdverbell and the Snow i;op are twm sisters and one is not to be pre- ferred to the other. The name of the genus has suf- fered vicissitudes. In the earlier bot- K , ,, . ^'"''-'^ ^'^^ generic name was Halesia but that ,s now displaced by Halesia was a' name given to the genus in ,759 in honor of Stephen fiales a botanist of the eighteenth century who wrote one of the flr'st Kn« books upon vegetable physiology. Uut ,t happened that an explorer m Jamaica four years before had the same to a genus of tropical plants. So that two widely fferent genera appeared in the books as Halesia. Such dup- hca ,on of names became in course of time a source of great confuston tn botanic nomenclature and the American Assocm-. Fruit or Snowdrop-tree, Molno- dcihiron Please note that these images are extracted fr
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