. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 734 Hercules Club ache tree, and, erroneously. Prickly ash. It attains a maximum height of about 13 meters, with a trunk 3 dm. thick, but is usually much smaller. The trunk, branches, and leaf-stalks are very prickly. The thin bark is brown outside and yellow ivithin. The young twigs are very stout. The terminal bud is blimt, nearly 2 cm. long, the lateral ones flattened and much smaller. The leaves are alternate, often a
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 734 Hercules Club ache tree, and, erroneously. Prickly ash. It attains a maximum height of about 13 meters, with a trunk 3 dm. thick, but is usually much smaller. The trunk, branches, and leaf-stalks are very prickly. The thin bark is brown outside and yellow ivithin. The young twigs are very stout. The terminal bud is blimt, nearly 2 cm. long, the lateral ones flattened and much smaller. The leaves are alternate, often a meter long or more, twice pinnate; the numerous leaflets are ovate, thick, pointed, stalked, toothed, to 10 cm. long, dark green. Fig. 672. — Hercules Club. above, very pale and sometimes a little hairy beneath; the bases of the stout leaf- stalks sheath the stem. The tree blossoms from June to August. The small white flowers are very nimierous in hairy panicled umbels; each individual flower is about 4 mm. broad and slender-stalked; each umbel is subtended by several small bractlets; the calyx is minute; there are 5 spreading petals, 5 stamens alter- nating with the petals, a 5-celled inferior ovary, and 5 styles. The fruit is an ovoid black berry about 6 mm. long, becoming 5-lobed when mature. The tree is of rapid growth and much planted for ornament. The wood is of little value, being brittle, soft, and weak. Both the bark of the root and the berries have a limited use in domestic 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 Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Shafer, John Adolph. New York : H. Holt and Co.
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