. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. SUMACH FAMILY POISON SUMACH. POISON DOGWOOD R/nh z\'}-fiix. R/nh I'iUi'ndin. A small tree, eighteen to twenty feet hiyh, with acrid, milky, poison- ous juice which turns black on exposure. The head is round and narrow and the branches slender and rather pendulous ; often it is simply a shrub. Small branches and young stems pithy. Bark.—Smooth, light or dark gray, slightly striate. Branchletsare smooth, reddish brown, covered with small, orange colored, lenticular spots : later they beco
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. SUMACH FAMILY POISON SUMACH. POISON DOGWOOD R/nh z\'}-fiix. R/nh I'iUi'ndin. A small tree, eighteen to twenty feet hiyh, with acrid, milky, poison- ous juice which turns black on exposure. The head is round and narrow and the branches slender and rather pendulous ; often it is simply a shrub. Small branches and young stems pithy. Bark.—Smooth, light or dark gray, slightly striate. Branchletsare smooth, reddish brown, covered with small, orange colored, lenticular spots : later they become orange brown and finally light gray. IVood.—Light yellow with brown lines ; light, soft, coarse-grained, brittle. Sp. gr., ; weight of cu. ft., lbs. Winter Bniis-—Terminal bud is much larger than the buds, all are acute, dark purple. Leaves- — Alternate, pinnately compound, seven to fourteen inches long, borne on slender reddish petioles. Leaflets se\en to thirteen, obovate, or oblong, three to four inches long, slightly uneciual or contracted at the base, en- tire, acute or rounded at apex, short petiokite except ilie terminal one which sometimes has a stalk an inch in length. They come out of the bud orange colored and downy, when full grown are smooth, dark green and shining above, pale beneath ; midrib and primary veins prominent. In autumn they turn scarlet and orange. Floivers.—June, July. Dicecious ; yellow green, borne in long, narrow, axillary panicles crowded near the ends of the branches. Bracts and bractlets are acute, downy, and fall as the flowers open. '.—Five-lobed, lobes acute, short. Corolla. — Petals five, acute, yellow green. Slainens.—Five, with long slender filaments and large orange colored anthers. In the fer- tile flowers short and rudimentary. Pistil.—Ovary ovoid - globose, one-celled, surmounted by three thick spreading styles; ovule solitary. Fruit.—Drupaceous, globular, white, borne in long graceful
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