. 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. Fig. 631. — California Lilac. 2. SPINY CEANOTHUS — Ceanothus spinosus NuttaU Inhabiting valleys and canons in southern California, and usually a mere shrub, this species rarely forms a tree 6 or 7 meters high, with a trunk dm. in diameter or less. The bark is red-brown and scaly, the young twigs finely hairy, green, somewhat angled, becoming brown, some of them tippeS by stout thorns i to 3 cm. long. The leaves are el
. 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. Fig. 631. — California Lilac. 2. SPINY CEANOTHUS — Ceanothus spinosus NuttaU Inhabiting valleys and canons in southern California, and usually a mere shrub, this species rarely forms a tree 6 or 7 meters high, with a trunk dm. in diameter or less. The bark is red-brown and scaly, the young twigs finely hairy, green, somewhat angled, becoming brown, some of them tippeS by stout thorns i to 3 cm. long. The leaves are elliptic to oblong-obovate, blimt, bluntish or notched at the apex, nar- rowed at the base, 2 to 4 cm. long, pin- nately veined, firm in texture, entire-mar- gined, or those of shoots sometimes toothed, persistent during the winter, hairy on the under side when young, smooth or nearly so on both sides when old, the upper surface dark green, the vmder side paler. The com- pound, rather loose flower-clusters are dm. long or less, borne at the ends of twigs; fig. 632. — Spiny 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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