. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. HEATH FAMILY They remain green and fall during the second summer. Petioles short, stout, slightly flattened. Flowers.—Flowers appear in Ma\' or June irom buds which are formed in autumn in the axils ot the upper leaves in the form of slender cones of downy green scales. These buds usually de\"elop two or more lateral branches, the whole forming a compound many- flowered corymb four or five inches in diameter and overlapped at the flowering time by the leafy branches of the year. Pe
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. HEATH FAMILY They remain green and fall during the second summer. Petioles short, stout, slightly flattened. Flowers.—Flowers appear in Ma\' or June irom buds which are formed in autumn in the axils ot the upper leaves in the form of slender cones of downy green scales. These buds usually de\"elop two or more lateral branches, the whole forming a compound many- flowered corymb four or five inches in diameter and overlapped at the flowering time by the leafy branches of the year. Pedicels are red or green, hairy or scurfy and furnished with two bracts at base and developed from the a.\ils of large bracts. Cah'X.—Fi\e-parted ; lobes imbricate m bud, narrow, acute, cov- ered with glutinous hairs. Disk prominent, ten lobed. Corolla.—Sauccr-sliapcd, rose colored, uiiite. or ]unk. Tube short with ten tiny sacs just below the fi\'e-parted limb ; lobes o\"ate, acute, imbricate in bud. The border is marked on the inner surface with a waving rosy line and is slightly purple abo\ e the sac. The buds are ten-ribbed trom the sacs to the acute ajiex of the bud. Stami:)'Y^\\. h\pogynou5, shorter than the corolla, at first held in the sacs of the corolla; tikiments thread-like ; anthers oblong, adnate, two-celled ; cells opening by a short longitudinal pore. Pistil.—0\"ary superior, fi\e-celled ; st\"le thread-like, exserted ; stigrna capitate; o\ules many in each cell. Fruit.—Wood)' capisule, many seeded, depressed - globular, slightly fi\'e-lobed, five-celled, five-\ahed. Crowned with the per- sistent style, surrounded at base by the persistent cal}x, covered with \-iscid hairs. Seeds oblong. The blossoms of the Moun- tain Laurel are equipped with a most evident device to se- cure cross-fertilization. Nat- ui"e has nianv such arrange- ments, but it is not often that they are so oiienl}' displayed. In this case, liowever, he who runs
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