. of being dead; but insummer, when clothed with leaves, its summitforms a dense, oval or roundish mass, whichhas a fine eifect, and may be seen at a greatdistance. The roots of this tree are few, thick,and directed downwards, in a similar manner as the branches grow outer bark of the trunk is extremely rough, and detaches itself, after a cer-tain age, in small, hard, transverse slips, rolled backwards at the end, and pro-jecting sufficiently to distinguish the tree from every other. The leaves, onyoung, vigorous plants,
. of being dead; but insummer, when clothed with leaves, its summitforms a dense, oval or roundish mass, whichhas a fine eifect, and may be seen at a greatdistance. The roots of this tree are few, thick,and directed downwards, in a similar manner as the branches grow outer bark of the trunk is extremely rough, and detaches itself, after a cer-tain age, in small, hard, transverse slips, rolled backwards at the end, and pro-jecting sufficiently to distinguish the tree from every other. The leaves, onyoung, vigorous plants, are three feet long, and twenty inches in width; but onold trees, of a large size, they are not one half of these dimensions. The leafletsare oval-acuminate, from one to two inches long, of a dull, bluish-green, and thebranches of their petioles are of a violet colour. The flowers, which open fromMay to July, occur in Avhite spikes, of two inches or more in length, the barrenand fertile ones being borne on separate trees. The fruit, which consists of large-. I CANADIAN GYMNOCLADUS. 219 bowed p£)ds, from five to ten inches in length, and about two inches in breadth,is of a reddish-brown colour, of a pulpy consistency within, and contains severallarge, gray seeds, of extreme hardness, that come to maturity in September orOctober. Geography and History. The Gymnocladus canadensis is sparingly found inUpper Canada, and along the borders of Lake Erie and Ontario, in the state ofNew York; but in Kentucky and Tennessee, it abounds on tracts which borderthe Ohio and Illinois rivers, and is associated with the Juglans nigra, Ulmusrubra, Liriodendron tulipifera, Fraxinus americana quadrangulata, Gleditschiatriacanthos, and more especially with the Celtis occidentalis. This tree was introduced into Britain in 1748, and was cultivated by Archi-bald, Duke of Argyll, at Whitton, where the original tree is said still to after its introduction into England, it found its way into m
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