. The silva of North America [microform] : a description of the tree which grow naturally in North America exclusive of Mexico. Trees; Trees; Dicotyledons; Arbres; Arbres; Dicotylédones. w â ] Mi 80 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. MORACEiE. MORACE^.. and very lustrous, inclosing the inner scales, which are scarious, coated with palo hairs, oblung-lanceolate, rouncied or acute at the apox, and one half to two tliirds of an inch long at maturity. The leaves are ovatu, oblon"â -ovate, or semi<rbicular, abruptly contracted into long broad points or acute at the apex, more or less deei)lv cordate
. The silva of North America [microform] : a description of the tree which grow naturally in North America exclusive of Mexico. Trees; Trees; Dicotyledons; Arbres; Arbres; Dicotylédones. w â ] Mi 80 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. MORACEiE. MORACE^.. and very lustrous, inclosing the inner scales, which are scarious, coated with palo hairs, oblung-lanceolate, rouncied or acute at the apox, and one half to two tliirds of an inch long at maturity. The leaves are ovatu, oblon"â -ovate, or semi<rbicular, abruptly contracted into long broad points or acute at the apex, more or less deei)lv cordate or occasionally truncate at the base, coarsely and occasionally doubly serrate witli incuivi'd tectli ending in minute callous tips, and sometimes, especially on vigorous young shoots, three-lobcd liv broad deep ()lili(pie rounded lateral sinuses, entire in the bottom, the lower lobes being aoain sometimes slightly lobe-colored ribs and prim; ry veins arcuate and united near the margins, and connected by reticulate veiidets, or sometimes in Louisiana and 'i'exas the lower surface is covered with a tliii ii coat of white tomentum; they are three to live inches long, two and one half to four inches broad, anil are borne on stout terete jietioles three quarters of an inch to an inch and one (piarter in length. The stii)nlfs are lanceolate, acute, abruptly enlarged and thickened at the base, sometimes tingeil with red above the middle, coated with long white hairs, and often an inch long. The leaves turn bright yellow, .ind fall early in the a, mnn. 'I'lie flowers a])pear with the unfolding of the leaves from the middle of March in Texas to the midilK' of .Inne in western New York ; the males are borne in narrow s]iikes two to two and a half incluv- long on stout light green peduncles covered with pale hairs, and produced in the axils of the inner bud-scales or of the tirst leaves, and the females, with wliii'h a few male (lowers arc .sonu'times mixed, in oblong densely flowere
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