. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. BEECH FAMILY. A Stiimlnate and a Pistillali Flower of the Beech ; en hu-ged. becoming brown on young trees often cling to the liranches all win- ter. When the leaves tirst appear in the spring they are heavily charged with acicl juice. I'etioles short, slightly groo\'Ccl, hairy. Stipules caducous. Fluwcia.—A|)ril, when lea\es are one- third grown. Staniinate borne in globose he;ids an inch in diameter on slender hairy peduncles, the staniinate flowers arc yel- lowish green aid consist o
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. BEECH FAMILY. A Stiimlnate and a Pistillali Flower of the Beech ; en hu-ged. becoming brown on young trees often cling to the liranches all win- ter. When the leaves tirst appear in the spring they are heavily charged with acicl juice. I'etioles short, slightly groo\'Ccl, hairy. Stipules caducous. Fluwcia.—A|)ril, when lea\es are one- third grown. Staniinate borne in globose he;ids an inch in diameter on slender hairy peduncles, the staniinate flowers arc yel- lowish green aid consist of a bell-shaped four to seven-lobed calyx, corolla wanting, stamens eight to ten, inserted on the calyx ; filaments white, slender, exserted ; anthers green, oblong, introrse, two-celled ; cells opening longitudinally: ovary wanting. Pistillate flowers are borne in two-flowered clusters from the axils of the upper lea\'es surrounded by numerous awl-shnpcd bractlets. They consist of an urn-shaped .calyx, tube tliree-angled, adnate to ovary; limb four to hve-lobed, corolla wanting, stamens wanting; ovary inferior, three-celled, styles three, slender, exserted ; o\ules two in each cell. The inner bracts in time become the fruiting invol- ucre. When full grown this is dark green covered with prickles ; in autumn it becomes light brown, the prickles strongly recur\-ed ; it is opened by the first severe frosts and remains on the branch after the nuts have fallen. Fruit.—Nut, triangular, pale chestnut brown, three-fourths of an inch long. Seed is sweet. It is believed that ;i beech must be fully forty years old before it fruits. "We sometimes think that tlie birds are the first heralds of the spring, but it is not so. Vegetation sleeps like a tlog, with one eye open, anil no soon(;r has the sun turned from his southern course than nature in all her mj'riad buds watches for his coming. There are signs of spring to the wise before a blue wing has beat toward the north or a robi
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