. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. IbU BETULA Regel.)- Lvs. broad-ovate, usually truncate at the base. Var. pfendula, Hort. Branches slender, dis- tinctly pcndulnus ; cult, in se%-ei-al different forms, as var. pSndula laciniata, Hort., with laciniate lvs.; a very ^'raci-ful form ( Kig. 234); var. p6ndula ^legans ; var. pendula Young-i, and othe
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. IbU BETULA Regel.)- Lvs. broad-ovate, usually truncate at the base. Var. pfendula, Hort. Branches slender, dis- tinctly pcndulnus ; cult, in se%-ei-al different forms, as var. pSndula laciniata, Hort., with laciniate lvs.; a very ^'raci-ful form ( Kig. 234); var. p6ndula ^legans ; var. pendula Young-i, and others. (2) pub6scens, Ehrh. (B. odorifa, Bechst.). Less pendulous or upright, sometimes shrubby ; branchlets usually pubescent, not glandular: lvs. ovate, pubes- cent beneath, at when young : cones pendu- lous or erect. The first grows more in dry situations, while the latter is found growing in moist places, often in swamps. To this subspecies belong the follow- ing varieties : Var. exc61sa, Regel. {B. eicdsa. Ait.). Tree : lvs. ovate, short petioled, pubescent bene»th. Var. pub^scens, Kegel. Branches and lvs. pubescent, at least when young ; lvs. ovate, acute. Var. urticifd- lia, Spach. Lvs. small, deep green, irregularly in- cised-serrate, .unequal at the base. Var. Carpitica, Regel, P6ntica, Dipp., and tortudsa, Regel, are small trees, without any horticultural value. CO. Trunk with dark bronze-colored bark. 11. occidentlllis. Hook. Small tree, occasionally 40 ft.; branchlets slender, glandular: lvs. broadly ovate or nearly orbicular, acute or obtuse, sharply serrate, .short- petioled, glabrous or sparsely pubescent at the veins be- neath, 1-2 in. long: cones 1-lH in. long ; bracts with erect, oval lobes, the middle one usually longer. North- west Amer., east to Dakota and Nebraska. 9: 453. BB. Wings smaller than the nut: shrubs 1-15 ft.: lvs. small, short-petioled : cones erect. c. Branchlets glandular, not pubescent. 12. glanduldsa, Michx. Only 1-4 ft.: lvs. sho
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