. Familiar trees and their leaves . Trees. Fia. E.—Sassafras Leaf. etill witliout a toothed edge. The lobed leaf of the sassafras is a good illustration of this type (see Fig. E). The toothed leaf of the yellow birch (see Fig. B) comes next among the simpler forms; but even this type is not quite as simple as that of the beech leaf (see the second drawing in this chapter), for the birch as well as the slippery-elm leaf is double- toothed, while the beech leaf is the plain- est, shallowest-toothed affair which jS"ature has designed. Perhaps Yiburnum dentatum, which will be found in a succe
. Familiar trees and their leaves . Trees. Fia. E.—Sassafras Leaf. etill witliout a toothed edge. The lobed leaf of the sassafras is a good illustration of this type (see Fig. E). The toothed leaf of the yellow birch (see Fig. B) comes next among the simpler forms; but even this type is not quite as simple as that of the beech leaf (see the second drawing in this chapter), for the birch as well as the slippery-elm leaf is double- toothed, while the beech leaf is the plain- est, shallowest-toothed affair which jS"ature has designed. Perhaps Yiburnum dentatum, which will be found in a succeeding chapter, has a leaf almost correspond- ingly simple, but the teeth are cut deeper, and the veining is not nearly so plain. The silver-maple leaf comes next in order (see Fig. F); this leaf is both divided and toothed, but -SiS^rio. 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 Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938. New York : D. Appleton
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