. Our native trees and how to identify them : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities . Trees. ELM FAMILY (7^/j,^._Campanulate, four to nine-lobed, hairy, green, tinged with red, becoming brown in fading ; lobes imbricate in bud. Corolla.—Wanting. Stamens.— to nine or as many as the calyx lobes and oppo- site to them, exserted ; filaments long, slender ; anthers bright red, two-celled, cells opening longitudinally; pollen shed before the stigmas mature. Pistil. —Ovdixy superior, two-celled; styles two, light green; ovules solitary. /r^„;, winged all round, maturi
. Our native trees and how to identify them : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities . Trees. ELM FAMILY (7^/j,^._Campanulate, four to nine-lobed, hairy, green, tinged with red, becoming brown in fading ; lobes imbricate in bud. Corolla.—Wanting. Stamens.— to nine or as many as the calyx lobes and oppo- site to them, exserted ; filaments long, slender ; anthers bright red, two-celled, cells opening longitudinally; pollen shed before the stigmas mature. Pistil. —Ovdixy superior, two-celled; styles two, light green; ovules solitary. /r^„;, winged all round, maturing as the leaves appear and clinging to the branch in clusters, ovate, one-seeded, one-half inch long, two-beaked, sharp points incurved and closing the notch, green, smooth on faces, densely ciliate at margins. Cotyledons flat, fleshy. Who knows not the ' vine prop' elm, with its lofty grace and slight bene- dictive droop, the oriole's nest still swinging from the end of some branch? —Edith Thomas. White Elm and Silver Maple are the first trees to accept the challenge of March that spring has come, and they seal their acceptance with flowers not leaves, for the law of the wild wood is that forest trees shall produce flowers before leaves. The flower-buds are usually borne. Flowering Spray of White Elm, Ulmui americana. on the topmost branches of an elm tree, and even in February they respond to the kindly influence of a few warm days by becoming swollen and shining. When March stops for a day or two to take his breath and the sun shines and the warm air comes up from the south, these swollen buds shake off their brown scales and come out as little clusters of eight to 234. 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 Keeler, Harriet L. (Harriet Louise), 1846-1921. New York : C. Scribner's Sons
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