. 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. Balm of Gilead 169 a maximum height of between 60 and 70 meters, with a trunk meters in diam- eter or more. The thick bark is light gray and deeply fissured on old trunks. The stout young twigs are round or somewhat angled, and finely hairy, becoming orange to gray, and shining. The resinous buds are orange-brown, ovoid, pointed, about 2 cm. long, often curved. The leaves are broadly ovate to ovate-oblong, pointed, ra
. 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. Balm of Gilead 169 a maximum height of between 60 and 70 meters, with a trunk meters in diam- eter or more. The thick bark is light gray and deeply fissured on old trunks. The stout young twigs are round or somewhat angled, and finely hairy, becoming orange to gray, and shining. The resinous buds are orange-brown, ovoid, pointed, about 2 cm. long, often curved. The leaves are broadly ovate to ovate-oblong, pointed, rather thick, 8 to 12 cm. long, rounded, slightly heart-shaped or somewhat narrowed at the base and finely toothed with blunt teeth; when young they are more or less hairy, especially on the upper side, when mature dark green, smooth and shining above, light green or almost white and smooth except on the veins of the under side, which are usually a little hairy; the round leaf-stalks vary from 2 to 6 cm. long; the stip- ules are narrow and i to 2 cm. long. The tree flowers, according to lati- tude, from February to April; the cat- kins are stalked, their scales cut into many filiform lobes, the staminate ones 8 cm. long or less; there are 40 stamens or more in each staminate flower; the pistillate catkins are usually rather densely flowered, the flowers sessile or nearly so, with nearly sessile, much dilated stigmas and an ovoid hairy ovary. The ripe capsules are nearly globular, about 8 mm. thick, and usually very hairy, whence the specific name trichocarpa, but they sometimes become nearly smooth; t^ey are stalkless or very , ^ , 1, 1 Fig. 124. — Balsam Cottonwood, short-stalked. The tree grows rapidly and its wood is used for barrels, tubs, bowls, and other wooden-ware; it is brown, soft, and weak, with a specific gravity of about 4. BALM OF GILEAD — Populus candicans Aiton The Bahn of Gilead poplar is found from Newfoundland to New Jersey and Virginia, westward to
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